Slow Down

Slow down!  by Viv Wigley The first week of September, still no sign of Halloween, a shop window full of Christmas cards the second I have seen. By the time my Pumpkin's binned and fake spider on its last legs, the shops will all have tinsel and a stack of Easter eggs. New year brings Summer holidays, and brochures through my door, Burns night there's bonfire toffee, it's almost ten months before. I'm getting on in years a tad, my pace of life will slow, retailers make the years flash by as fast as it can go. I'm hoping I've a few more years before my life goes down the pan, Oh,no- I'm only sixty-two, here's ANOTHER funeral plan!