The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

This was me when I was about seven years old, in a cake shop in Lancashire. After staring through the window at the range of delights for ages, this is what happened when I went into buy one.

The Cake

It weren't the very biggest, or the one with all the cream,
It weren't the one with icing, like a sculpture makers dream.
It weren't the one with marzipan or jam or strawberry flakes
But what it were, it were the cake he gave me by mistake.

'Cause what was this he passed across the counter like a twit?
Where was the sticky chocolate sauce I'd dreamt would cover it,
Where was the soft, warm sponge inside, where were the chocolate chips?
What sad and sorry disappointing anti-cake was this?

Not even one sad cherry sat upon it's flattened top
Where once the cherry'd sat was now a grubby, yellow spot,
And nowhere was there evidence of almonds or of jam
Just a dry and crumbling biscuit sat offending in my hand.

'But Mr, that's the one I want, that strawberry chocolate one,
The one with all the icing, look, that lovely, sticky bun!!
Please take this back, it's horrid and think I see a hair
I really couldn't eat it if the cat has been back there!'

He looked at me with pity, I could see it in his face,
He looked and me and then I knew I'd made a big mistake.
With only 20p to spend my choice was slim to none;
That's why the cake I left with was a badly crumbling scone.

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Oh I wish I could travel back in time and buy that little girl the best cake in the shop!

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Oh Elvira I should like to bake you a great big gooey cake ! x

Elvira. Where you been? Enjoyed the poem! Glad you have not left us!

Lovely poem!" Yay! Elvira is back, and never went away!

Welcome back. I thought we were the ones to provide the cake!

I was going to post an image of a Jersey Cream Slice and Death by Chocolate, but I got it sort of wrong.

Ah well.

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Would have replied earlier but felt a sudden urge to visit the bakers.

Haven't been able to eat or move since.

Thanks haven't felt like a kid for along time.

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