Mary Mary Susan, Susan, fairly opposite what does will your backyard develop?
Does not scan so nicely for certain!
Three backyard firm seed catalogues all arrived on the identical day – simply two days after Christmas
I’ve not but had time to research the tin that shops my seeds however will quickly. Little doubt I will be rising a lot the identical as 2023.
That is the correct model of the nursery rhyme that I’ve altered for that first line, recognized by many as
Do you know that the oldest model of the Nursery Rhyme was first revealed in Tommy Thumb’s Fairly Track E book of 1744. I did not till I regarded on wiki!
I additionally did not know that Steve Roud, whose guide ‘The English 12 months’ in regards to the historical past of English customs, traditions and folklore, that I’ve on my cabinets, has additionally catalogued many elderly songs to make the Roud Folksong Index. This covers about 25,000 songs in English collected from oral traditions world wide.
This nursery rhyme is likely to be about Mary Tudor or Mary Queen of Scots however the fact is misplaced in historical past.