<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414190" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maintaining Standards.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To make the grade in Biggleswade.<br>Teatime is taken seriously.<br>The cake you serve must be home made<br> and rather plain not too fancy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course the table must be laid<br>with your best china on display<br>A snow white cloth the finest made.<br>Things must be done the proper way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The good ladies of Biggleswade.<br>Intent on keeping standards high, <br> will try their hardest to persuade<br> new ladies that they must not buy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rich fresh cream cakes to serve for tea.<br>They must maintain tradition.<br>I’m not convinced too easily <br>and so I wait’ til they have gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My man and I prefer our tea.<br>Strong hot and sweet from half pint pots.<br>We eat while watching the TV.<br>We think they are a stuffy lot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we are not from Biggleswade<br>and we do things a different way.<br>More casual not stiff and staid.<br> More suited to the world today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We don’t fit in, in Biggleswade, <br>we do not like formality<br>we never will I am afraid.<br>But we don’t care we’d rather be </div><div style="margin:10px 0">allowed to live the way we choose. <br>And not by rules we must obey.<br>So quite politely we refuse <br>and send the ladies on their way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The leading ladies of the town.<br>The great and good of Biggleswade.<br>I am quite sure have marked us down<br>Unsuitable to make the grade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunday,13 June 2010<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414190" data-title="Maintaining Standards. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="To make the grade in Biggleswade. Teatime is taken seriously. The cake you serve must be home made and rather plain not too fancy. Of course the table must be laid with your best china on display A snow white cloth the finest made. Things must b..."></div> </div> </div>

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