Hazel Cottage
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- Written February 2009
Pheasants exhibit their colourful plumage
Rabbits leap nimbly on National Trust herbage
Magpies hop clumsily clocking up mileage
While butterflies get dizzy on their roundabout voyage.
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They all want to play somewhere better
So make their way to Hazel Cottage.
Foxes inflict an unwanted carnage
Squirrels hide nuts under somebody's garbage
Bees store their honey in a hexagonal package.
While spiders wrap their prey in the stickiest bandage.
They all want to dine somewhere better
So make their way to Hazel Cottage.
Cuckoos leave a neighbour's nest in outrage
Ants move their house all loaded with baggage
Badgers go burrowing down dried-out drainage
While hedgehogs dig deeper for greater advantage
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They all want to live somewhere better
So make their way to Hazel Cottage.
Up Chapel Hill, past Burford Bridge [1]
The Taylor seven have found the village
Where all who arrive feel the visit a privilege;
Westhumble's hosts merit life-long peerage.
No need to look elsewhere
They've made their home in Hazel Cottage.
Where Rachael's ballet rates well above average
And David opens a Microsoft package.
While Jonathan speaks with Shakespearean language [2]
Max and Piper ask when they'll get porridge. [3]
February 2009
Hazel Cottage is the home of the Taylor family in the village of Westhumble, near Dorking. You can access a 3-D model of it on google-earth here
[1] Burford Bridge is on the River Mole, giving its name to the adjoining hotel.
[2] Jonathan is playing Romeo in the Brockham School production of Romeo and Juliet.
[3] Max and Piper - the Taylors' labradors