Cherries

I was asking a waitress that was serving us a delicious clafoutis with cherries what the French said instead of:

Tinker

Tailor

Soldier

Sailor

Rich man

Poor man

Beggerman

Thief

And get married in

Silk

Satin

Cotton

Rags

Driven away from the church in

Coach

Carriage

Wheelbarrow

Muck cart

And they don't seem to have an equivalent. What a shame. In my memory it is mostly plumstones that you use, not cherries. Stewed plums and custard served as a bowl of custard with stewed plums spooned in the middle and then stirred into a delicious pinkness..............

A friend has just put this on Facebook:

Soldier brave

Sailor true

Skilled physician

Oxford blue

Gouty nobleman

Squire so hale

Dashing airman

Curate pale

 

which her mother says. My mother used to say that too and she got her dashing airman bless her. (David if you can email me a picture of  Dad as a dashing airman, I'll put it on :-)

And here he is xx