28th March 2008

 

Autumn Surfers would like to express our full support to Shelteredhousinguk.com thanks to Vernon for the following “Ode to Sheltered Housing”.

 

Lives filled with trials and tribulations,

as well as times of bliss.

We soldiered on through love and war,

Its time to reminisce

 

Our duty done our families raised,

grandchildren at our feet.

What 'er we've done is history now

our lives are near complete.

 

Time to think how best we can

be safe as life's undone.

We need a plan to see us through

the frailty to come.

 

Sheltered Housing points the way,

it should remove the worry.

They do all the donkey work,

so we do not have to hurry.

 

What forethought generations past

built these places for the old.

What vision, and what solicitude,

for our care they were so bold.

 

But newer younger people

that life's experience lack.

so vigourously they change the world

from what was white to black.

 

You do not need a Warden,

this generation call.

We have been to university,

and thus we know it all !

 

What poppycock affects the old,

that they should even dare.

To think that their very ageing

entitles them to care.

 

For Wardens we will pay no more,

who heard of such nonsence.

This world we have recreated

to run on Pounds and Pence.

 

So lonely as you were before,

then lonely you shall be.

There is no place for coffee mornings

and biscuits and afternoon tea.

 

Please just get out quietly.

and do not make a fuss.

Its really quite distressing,

that you should bother us.

 

So hark ye elderly citizen.

long past are the days of yore.

Gone is Sheltered Housing,

it does not exist 'no more '!

 

Anyone interested in supporting Vernon’s Sheltered Housing campaign can click on the link below to reach his site

 

http://www.shelteredhousinguk.com/

 

 

Autumn Surfers