May the Dear Lord deliver us
Not from creatures carnivorous
But edibles less frivolous
Like cheeses odoriferous
Who gives a damn about Edam
First made in Dutch North Amsterdam
Or nutty-tasting Leerdam
And Czechoslovak Abertam
When some people find delicious
Or remain highly suspicious
Of a cheese that is nutritious
To say else might be pernicious
Called Kalimpong from West Bengal
As chewy as a rubber ball
Which doesn’t smell too bad at all
Or clog you with cholesterol
They're wrong. The foul effluvium
Causing our nasal odium
Creating pandemonium
As if it were plutonium
Is just a cheese no nose can bear
Once it’s been opened to the air
So, please, cheese eaters be aware
The culprit is your Camembert!
Jodie is a law student born in Telford,
Living in Tilford, so she happily attends,
Lillishall Nat. Sports & Conference Centre,
And was born on the 26th July in 1993.
When her dad became ill, needed lifted,
He followed his parents into archery,
So she watched him shoot and score,
Which made her want to also join in.
Jodie was born without any fingers,
And only half a thumb on her left hand,
Her left shoulder has some problems,
And likewise her elbow, it has issues.
So she shoots with a compound arrow,
With one that’s specially adapted,
And bets other competitors she can win,
‘Cos she’s bubbly and enthusiastic.
Her biggest achievement to talk today,
Happened at Nove Mesto, Czechoslovak,
At the Para Worlds in the year of 2015,
Where she won mixed team bronze.
Rio will be her first Paralympic Games,
And it’s her goal, ambition and dream,
To become both the World Champion,
And the great Paralympic gold medalist.
Mikey is an Invictus man,
Gets many medals in archery,
Sporty and keen he continues,
From his previous Army career.
In the Queens Dragoons Guards,
Whilst training he got stuck, fell,
From a rope bridge: broken neck,
Spine, and paralysed from chest.
Help for Heroes helped him live,
He joined the recovery programme,
Several sports took him clean:
Cycling and Ironman triathlons.
But the moment he held a bow,
He knew that archery was his,
To reap with and to sow, build,
To elevate his wins and attempts.
And he was so good at it, supreme,
That HfH asked him to start, set up,
An archery programme for them,
At Phoenix House Recovery Centre.
He took individual bronze, Invictus,
And also team gold. In Holland,
He won a solid individual gold,
And also the team bronze, in 2015.
In Czechoslovak Mikey landed,
The team with a bronze to boast,
And is determined a medal to win,
In Rio, at the Summer Paralympics.
He was born on the 20th of July,
In the year 1975, crude rock days,
And lives in St Martins, Shropshire,
Shooting at Scorton Archery Club.