HENGISTBURY HEAD
(Just returned from holiday in Dorset. I suspect you will have the wrong idea about "doggers")
A coach discharges youngsters who from college may have fled
All chattering and brightly clothed and by their tutor led
They come, it’s clear, from far and near
To study unique flora here
A true botanic biosphere is Hengistbury Head.
The tide’s inrush at Mudeford for centuries has sped
Cutting off the beach huts which are barely garden sheds
Such plots of land of wood and sand
Will set you back three hundred grand
They don’t do low-cost housing at Hengistbury Head.
You catch your feet on doggers on which ancestors would tread
Where forefathers of you and I would venerate their dead
They dug with bone to set their stone
Needing just these tools alone
Till bronze and iron broke their stride at Hengistbury Head.
Marauding flocks of starlings will confiscate your bread
Ensuring that their murmuration’s Mudeford’s best fed
These thieves will steal your cafe meal
It makes the children laugh and squeal
Drowning out the Christ Church peal at Hengistbury Head.
Yes, there’s nowhere I would rather be than Hengistbury Head.
John Coopey
Thu 7th Jul 2016 10:10
Thanks for that link, Stu. He was clearly commissioned to do it! I love the way that among the attractions shown is (what I assume to be) a sugar beet factory.