As a child, I had a summer holiday every year at my Gran’s house on the north Kent coast at Herne Bay. It had all you could want as a holiday destination: a beach, albeit mostly made up of stones, two sea water pools to risk life and limb in as they were slathered in seaweed, a pier, a clockhouse, a promenade, a cinema with Saturday morning pictures, fish and chips and cockle stalls. It also had those ubiquitous tacky gift shops. We weren’t allowed to spend our pocket money on the most off kilter examples but a postcard for the other grandparent or a school friend was permitted.
When sifting through the selection, I was always intrigued by the cartoon cards. Cartoons were for children yet these were ones that caused laughter amongst the adults but seemed daft to me. This was my introduction to the saucy postcard.
This memory came to me when Esther Chilton provided this week’s Limerick prompt
Boil
Imagine if you will a surprised nurse, holding a pan of water, a doctor looking aghast and a horrified patient gripping the blankets. This was in mind when I wrote this little ditty
Trainee nurse, Christopher Tick
Was as mustard keen as he was thick.
When told to prick Colin Doyle’s
Large and aggressive buttock boil,
He, instead, heated water and boiled his…
TanGental 
Ha! Ha! A good limerick.
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Thanks. My poetry seems to have defaulted to limericks just now. I need to up my game
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Lol – A very good one, and the postcard is adorable. 🙂 Thanks for sharing, Geoff! My excuse for the delay.Enjoy a beautiful rest of the week! xx Michael
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Thank you Michael. Hope the summer is being kind
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whoops
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I wish I’d kept the ones I received…
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Oh, you are a caution!
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Sorry Nurse!
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It is possible to wince and grin at the same time. I know, because that’s what I do every time I see this!
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Have you just invented the grince?
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I thought wingrin! It sounds more positive.
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I guess it’s better than losescowl
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Wah hoo! Pricking the boil might have hurt almost as much. What lovely summer memories – your Gran’s was a wonderful place for a young boy to spend the summer!
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Wes rated with her for a week, each Easter. She gave my brother and I breakfast, pointed at the bathroom, told us to clean our teeth and then go outside. We’d be about 8 and 9 and weren’t expected back until lunchtime. Ditto in the afternoon. In the evening, after dinner she’d get out the card table and teach us rummy, samba, whist and poker. She was a one in a million.
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Those are the kind of memories everyone should have!
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She was some woman
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Too funny, both the story and the limerick 😂
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Thanks. Glad you enjoyed
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I can just see someone receiving that postcard.
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I might have had less problems with aunts had these been sent more regularly. They would have been an effective Vaccine
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🤣
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You sent that postcard to one of your grandparents!
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One maybe, the other would have expired from a fit of malignant vapours.
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Great fun. “Slathered in seaweed” is an excellent phrase
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Thank you. You are welcome to purloin it anytime.
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I used to have quite a collection of those postcards, Geoff – including that one. At some point, probably during one of my several house moves, they disappeared. Never failed to make me smile, though. Thanks for finding an excuse to present this wonderful piece of (what must surely be very British) nostalgia. Have a great weekend!
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I loved them to and saved a few which have now gone like yours. I always thought the ability to find a double entendre was a particularly British skill until I realised the descriptor is French…
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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
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Just go and deep boil your brain and the images will go away
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Thank you for the tip I shall try that 😉
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Heh, heh, heh 😀 … yes, ouch! 😀
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I just love an educational post card
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