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• boric acid

  • From: ivan
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    Celia they do say you have to be careful with boric acid, try half cup of ornge oil in one litre water and spray you can sprinkle nutrasweet where the ants they take back to the queen and it kills them best of luck

                          Ivan 

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• Ant killer for Celia

  • From: ivan
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    Difficulty: Moderately Easy

    Instructions

    Things You'll Need:

    • Borax or boric acid
    • Glass jar with tight-fitting lid
    • Bottle caps
    • Honey
    • Sugar

    Making and Setting Borax Ant Bait Traps Indoors

    1. Step 1

       Spoon some borax into bottle caps, filling them about halfway.

    2. Step 2

       Set the baits wherever you've seen ants in your home, particularly bathrooms, the kitchen and the laundry area. Excellent locations include inside kitchen cabinets where greases or sweets are kept, under all of your sinks and appliances, by the kitchen trash receptacle, near doorways and vents leading outside, or anywhere that moisture is present or collects.

    3. Step 3

       Check the borax ant baits daily to see if they need to be refilled.

       Making Borax Bait for Killing Outdoor Ants

    4. Step 1

       Make environmentally friendly bait for killing ants outside of your home by combining ¼ cup honey with ¼ cup sugar in a heat-resistant glass jar.

    5. Step 2

       Microwave the mixture for a minute on high, then stir. Microwave again just enough to dissolve the sugar. Stir well.

    6. Step 3

       Add ¼ cup borax by spoonfuls, stirring well after each addition. Allow the bait mixture to cool to room temperature.

    7. Step 4

       Pour 1 or 2 tbsp. of the sweet bait onto the ant mound. The sugar and honey will attract the ants to the bait, and the borax will kill them. The sugar and honey form a heavy liquid that the wind can't blow away, which is critical to the success of baits placed outdoors.

    8. Step 5

       Cap the jar tightly. Store it at room temperature for to 2 to 3 weeks

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• Follow My Heart

  • From: john
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    Why oh why, does everyone tell me to follow my heart,

    When at the end of Lifes journey, we have to part.

    I do things right, I do things wrong,

    And even sometimes, I was right all along.

     

    So I follow my heart, as best I can,

    Maybe just to prove that I am a man.

    But I do try to be fair from my heart,

    But there is always someone, who wants to tear me apart.

     

     

    Why is life so difficult and why is life so cruel,

    Just to look at life itself, it looks like a beautiful jewel.

    But inside a very different picture, can be seen,

    There are a lot of people who are nasty and mean.

     

    So now I ask you, what more can I do,

    I have have not lied or cheated this is true.

    So why does every tell me, to follow my heart,

    It is all I have done anyway, right from the start.

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• Edward

  • From: Ira_Aten
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    I just read that Edward Woodward has died, a great british actor who will leave a gap that can never be filled.

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• More and more tips

  • From: ivan
  • Description:

    vacuum

    To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum.  It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.

    
     

    Reducing Static Cling

    Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when  wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and.. ta da!... static is gone.

    
     

    Measuring Cups

    Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup.

    Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

    Foggy Windshield?

     

    Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car.

    When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

    
     

    Reopening envelope

    If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.

    
     

    Conditioner

     

    Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth.

    It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair..

    
     

    
     

    Get Rid of Ants

     

    Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,' can'tdigest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

    
     

    ...the hot water jus

    INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS

    The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something else; he took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material... I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks like.. Well it sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that's what burns out the heating unit.You can't SEE the film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft and static free... that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feel waxy when you take them out of the box .well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months.He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long!

    How about that!!

    Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that.

    So, I thought I'd share!

    Note: I went to my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy water and a nylon brush and I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it. the water ran right through the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking about!

    
     

    PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.

    NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

    
     

    
     

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• More tips

  • From: ivan
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    For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt chocolate mint patties

    in double broiler and pour over warm brownies.. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

    
     

    Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste

    of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

    Reheat Pizza

    Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm.

    This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.

    
     

    Easy Deviled Eggs

     

    Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

    
     

    
     

    Reheating refrigerated bread

     

    To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water.

    The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

    
     

    Newspaper weeds away

    Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.

    
     

    Broken Glass 

     

    Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.

    
     

    
     

    
     

    Flexible vacuum

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• tips

  • From: ivan
  • Description:
    Subject: Some really good tips
    
    
     

    
    

     

     

    MAKE SURE YOU READ THE LAST ONE ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS !!!! 

    DID YOU KNOW? Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it.   Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.       Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!   Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.     Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.   To really make scrambled eggs or omelettes rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

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• Does anyone need any help addi

  • From: Jenny
  • Description:

    Does anyone need any help adding in a photograph?

    If you are having problems adding a photograph with your blog or profile, it's very easy to do.

    Firstly, go to your own profile. On the left hand side you will see a box and the words 'edit my profile' with a pencil logo. Click on this.

    This will take you to a new screen. At the top of the screen you will see a white tool bar. Choose the phrase 'edit my account'.

    Click on this and then it will ask if you would like to upload a profile photo. It can be of yourself or a picture from Google such as a flower. Now attach the photograph of your choice. Once you have attached it, press 'Update Profile' and then you are finished.

    Wait a few minutes for the picture to upload - and then you will see it in place (this can take from 5 to 10 minutes depending on the speed of your broadband).

    If this all sounds too confusing and you are still having problems then send me an email at jennyitz@hotmail.com with the photo you would like us to include for your profile - and I'm happy to do this for you.

    Good Luck

    Jenny

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• The Fruits of Life

  • From: john
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    If I could turn back time, I know what I would do,

    I would spend the rest of my life, just looking for you.

    Somehow I would find and keep you by my side,

    And make you my beautiful bride.

     

    You cannot always have what you want, What more can I say,

    Life is like a forbidden fruit, it is something you want anyway.

    To look at you, as if from afar,

    It is like looking up to the sky, at a beautiful star.

     

    You are the forbidden fruit to me,

    I will do my utmost just to keep you happy.

    You are to me, the forbidden fruit of life,

    That is why I am happy, to call you my wife.

     

    As my tempting fruit of life, you are so special to me,

    All I hope in my life, to you it is plain to see.

    That my love for you will go on forever,

    And I will be there for you, and leave you never.

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• Rainbows

  • From: john
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    Why do most of us love, to look at rainbows,

    I do not think really, anybody knows.

    Maybe it is the natural beauty, of it all,

    The colours are so lovely, even when the rain falls.

     

    Why do rainbows seem so peaceful, and serene,

    They do not look at all, cruel and mean.

    For they are one the natural things around us,

    So there is no way, we need to create a fuss.

     

    Most of us do not appreciate, the wonders of a rainbow,

    We only take it as heresay, Like I told you so.

    So why not enjoy, one of the true wonders of our time,

    For while it lasts, its beauty never seems to decline.

     

    A rainbow sadly, does eventually go away,

    Would it not be lovely, if it were here to stay.

    So we have to wait, until the next one shows its face,

    And yet once again, nothing will be out of place.

     

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• Christmas Poetry Competition

  • From: joecushnan
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    CLUMSY
    
    
    A small piece of white paper,
    coarse-cut and raggedy-round,
    falls from my young son's fingers
    and floats slowly to the ground.
    
    
    he looks down, then up to me,
    shocked because he'd dropped the moon.

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• CHANGE

  • From: ruks
  • Description:

    Standing at the edge of the Balcony

    Was enjoying the shiny rays of sun

    Between the drizzle of rain

    Screaming out of joy

                               (was me)

    At the sight of Rainbow

              Suddenly

    Violent was the stromy wind

    In a second of thought

    Boulders and buildings

    Gushing down the streets

    Yelling of people here and there

    Occurence of a great disaster

    Revealing its Evil nature

            In me

    Thoughts reeling in my mind

    VIBGYOR of Beauty

            Turned

    VIBGYOR of Disaster.

     

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• A JUNGLE TRIP

  • From: ruks
  • Description:

    Walking through the woods

    Smelling the the sweet smells of wild flowers

    Hearing the songs of Birds

    Happiness crawling down my senses

    Walking through the woods

    Hearing the roar of a lion

    And the trumpet of the elephant

    Birds and Monkeys chirping away

    Fear creeping down my spine

    Walking through the woods.

    Took to my heels

    As swift as I can

    Was out of the woods

    Safely cuddled in my bed

    Opened my eyes to find

    Walking through the woods

    In my dreams.

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• Open Heart

  • From: john
  • Description:

    You have such a lovely smile,

    You look so cheerful, all the while.

    Your eyes seem sparkle, like stars in the night,

    It really is, a beautiful sight.

     

    I look at you, and it is plain to see,

    That you always seems to be, so happy.

    To me, I think it is your natural way,

    So there is nothing, anyone can say.

     

    Your open heart, is for all to see,

    Your feelings come across, so perfectly.

    Everyone can see and feel all the love around you,

    It is no wonder, it is something no one can undo.

     

    Whatever you say, or whatever you do,

    There seems to be a lot of affection, this is true.

    That is why, it has been a great pleasure on my part,

    For I knew anyway, I would love you from the start.

     

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• Wrecking the Tree

  • From: windypops
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    Wrecking the tree

     

    Don’t bash the baubles, Rita,

    If you claw them they will snag,

    And that’s a plastic robin

    It’s really not a punchbag!

    Please don’t climb the branches –

    It’s not that kind of tree

    Watch, you’ll tip it over –

    Oh, can’t you let it be?

    Don’t bite the fairy, Rita –

    She’s done nothing to you.

    Damn, there go her wings –

    Now where’d I put that glue?

    I see you like the tinsel –

    It makes a rustling noise

    Don’t open the parcels, Rita

    The kids will see their toys!

    Give me back my star

    I need to put it on.

    There, it’s looking lovely now

    But where’s my tinsel gone?

    Rita, will you please keep still

    And I’ll unravel you,

    How’d you get so wound up

    In tinsel? Silly moo!

    It seems that this destruction

    Has made you really shattered.

    That’s it, you have a nice little rest –

    MY CHRISTMAS TREE’S IN TATTERS!!!

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• Goodbye

  • From: Barry
  • Description:

    Goodbye

    
    I said goodbye to my friends today

    I`d known them quite a few years

    Laughed with them, cried with them

    Spoken of our secret fears.

     

    The changes we`d make if we were in charge

    Or win the pools and have lots of cash

    All that seems a lifetime away

    Since that dreadful motorway crash

     

    I still see It all, how It happened

    Slowly, slowly piece by piece

    A coach full of laughter, songs and smiles

    Little knowing this would soon cease.

     

    Some were more than merely friends

    Brothers and sisters were there as well

    Now they are gone, gone for ever

    Hear now the tolling of the bell.

     

    I said goodbye to my friends today

    As I watched them from on high

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

    Here for ever, I will lie.

     

     

    Barry L J Winters

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• Books I have read

  • From: judylow
  • Description:

    Not sure if I'll lose my answers if I go back (it wouldn't paste into the reply section) to see who posted this first but here is my list marked of which ones I have read - definitely more than 6.

     

     

    The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
    I have marked with an 'x' all the books I have read from the BBC book list....copy and paste the list into your Blog and mark how many you have read.....and let them see they are so wrong!!
    
    
    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x                                   4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
    6 The Bible - Old Testament or New or both? BITS
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -x
    9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - x
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - x
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy- x

      13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - x                                     14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Some
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -   x                             16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x                                        17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk x
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - x
    19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - x
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
    23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
    24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -x
    26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - x
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -X
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - x
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
    34 Emma - Jane Austen -
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
    36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
    37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
    40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -X
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - x
    42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - x
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
    45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - x
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - x
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - x
    50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - x
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
    52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
    53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - x
    54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
    55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
    58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
    59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime- Mark Haddon - x
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -x
    61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
    62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - x
    63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - x
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
    66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
    67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -X
    69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - x
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -X
    74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - x
    75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
    76 The Inferno – Dante -
    77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    78 Germinal - Emile Zola x
    79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
    80 Possession - AS Byatt -
    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x
    82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - x
    84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
    85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
    86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
    88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -X
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x
    91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
    92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
    93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - x
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
    96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - x
    97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
    99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl-
    100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

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• NEARLY JERUSALEM

  • From: judylow
  • Description:

    Nearly Jerusalem (inspired by The Donkey by G.K. Chesterton)

     

    World turned awry, what wizardry

    Makes Eden into desert blown,

    Shine ruby onto sand and rock,

    Give braying cry and fearful moan.

    Scant glance, I cannot recognise

    Reflection in the broken pools,

    Shunned by the laughing fleeter beasts,

    Gracefullly made with angel's tools.

    My secret knowledge gave me strength,

    Derided, often left unfed,

    What's written in the holy book

    Would not reveal, they beat, I bled.

    Mercy came late in sanctuary,

    Now infant hands caress my head,

    No majesty in these green fields,

    But peace and straw which is my bed.

    If only some could recognise,

    Know that gloria in history,

    When voices rose in ecstasy

    And dust was tamed with greenery.
    

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• nice news

  • From: Ira_Aten
  • Description:

    I went for a spirometry (breathing test) this week and my readings were up 3% on last year which is good cos with emphysema they usually go down. I know 3% does'nt sound like very much but when your readings are only 28% of normal then an extra 3% is quite a lot. I think it may have something to do my getting out and walking more since I had my new camera.

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  • 4 weeks ago
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• I Cannot

  • From: john
  • Description:

    I cannot hope to be, something that I am not,

    After all, that would mean rather a lot.

    I shall just be, what I am,

    And carry one, and do what I can.

     

    I cannot hope to be, as perfect as you all,

    For I make mistakes, yet I still stand tall.

    As I walk through life with pride,

    For basically, I know God is on my side.

     

    I cannot hope to be, anything other than me,

    For most of the time, I really am quite happy.

    Yet there are sometimes, when I am quite sad,

    Are these the times, when I have been bad.

     

    I cannot hope to be, famous one day,

    I I were, I would not know what to say.

    So I will strive to be, Just what I want to be,

    And hope I can  make everyone around me, feel happy.

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