The talented and very funny Shirley Evans from our Hayville Retirement Community shared this hilarious poem about a Christmas Cake nobody wanted to eat. We hope it gives you a smile, and makes you think twice about saying ‘no, thank you’ next time someone offers you a slice!
The Christmas Cake
I made a lovely Christmas cake, so rich and full of flavour
But on the day the family said “Please do us a favour
Don’t ask us to eat any, we’re full right up to here
We cannot eat another thing ’til after the New Year”
So I put it in the cupboard
On Boxing Day the neighbours called to bring us salutations
We ate and drank and carried on like folk do on these occasions
When I produced the Christmas cake, everyone declined
“We’ve had enough rich food” they said. “We hope that you don’t mind”
So it went back in the cupboard
It was early in the New Year at a picnic by the lake
I decided that the time was right to cut the Christmas cake
All our friends were gathered, or as many as were able
And I noticed there were three more Christmas cakes upon the table
Mine went back to the cupboard
In June we had a garage sale and cleared out all our junk
We got rid of useless furniture and old clothes from a trunk
Some-one bought our broken mower, a rusty spade and rake
And we only asked two dollars for my lovely Christmas cake
But it’s still in the cupboard
If you drop in for morning tea and I offer you a slice
Don’t say what all the others say, that it looks very nice
And it’s a shame to cut it, or you’re trying to lose weight
You can have the bloomin’ lot, and that includes the plate
By Shirley Evans
