Water shortage hosepipe bans <br />Old Jack Brown was making plans <br />In his garden plants bone dry <br />Water needed or they’ll die <br /> <br />Last year it was power cuts <br />Now he’s buying water butts <br />Bowls and buckets even pans <br />Saving old used baked bean cans <br /> <br />Any vessel without holes <br />Even tarpaulin on poles <br />Still he finds his plants all wane <br />Now its floods with none stop rain <br /> <br /> <br />© 2008 David Threadgold <br />Rambling Riddles
