Going more than a little crazy

I have the distinct feeling that this month is going to be crazy. If, in May, I could look out of my window and see snow falling on the flowering apple and pear trees, then in June, anything is possible! With that thought, an absurd children’s rhyming song came up into my head: “Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey

A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?”

But really, it is spelt like this:

“Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy,

A kid’ll eat ivy, too, wouldn’t you?”

The song makes little sense, yet in 1943, when it was first played in New York it was an instant success. Does this prove anything about the American and then the British public? It could be that we all like something crazy, something light-hearted, something ridiculous.

So what is my bizarre suggestion for us? We should go a little mad, use our imagination to do something different: be a pillion-passenger on a fast motorbike, learn to drive when fear has prevented it, get on the attractions of Port Aventura , climb rocks, go skinny-dipping, dye your hair electric-blue. Let’s do something crazy this month – we may surprise ourselves!