The south-eastern crater of Sicily’s Mount Etna has grown in height after six months of activity
There are volcano boffins who say
Mount Etna grows taller each day
But this recent growth spurt
Won’t cause any hurt
If you stay out of the lava’s way
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A magnum is twice the size of a regular wine bottle, containing about 12 glasses, and yet may help you cut down on consumption
This evening if you want some
Wine then open a magnum
And enjoy its delights
Over several nights
Or knock it all back with a chum
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Japenese parents are sending relatives who are unable to visit due to the pandemic bags of rice that weigh the same as their newborn babies
When there’s a new child in your clan
You’d give it a hug if you can
So would it be as nice
To embrace some dried rice?
As I hear that’s now big in Japan
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New Zealand’s sparkling Bernadino spumante, known as “Bernadino spewmante”, is stopping production due to rising costs.
In New Zealand fans of sparkling white
Have been given a terrible fright
They can no longer sup
As costs have gone up
Which to me just does not seem right
UK junior health minister James Bethall (above) replaced his phone before it could be searched for information about £85m of covid deals currently subject to legal challenges
There’s a secretary of state
Who’s been in hot water of late
But at least he had known
To destroy his old phone
Before it could affect his fate
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Around one million people are likely to be targeted for Covid-19 ‘booster shots’ as the State begins their rollout over Autumn and Winter
At this stage most adults have got
A dose of the new vaccine shot
But do not contend
That this means the end
Of the crisis. As it’s certainly not.
Calls from public phones across Australia are now free
In Australia payphones will be
Usable without a fee
Is it widely agreed
We should follow their lead
And once and for all set speech free?
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Details of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s efforts to exempt her land in Scotland from a green energy initiative will remain confidential
It seems the Queen didn’t consent
To follow some laws that were meant
To make things more green
But her words can’t be seen
By those who aren’t in government
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Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney (left) has been asked to explain his appointment of Katherine Zappone (right) as a free speech envoy to the United Nations
Should Coveney make a confession
About his envoy for free expression
He swears to his Lord
That it’s all above board
But it still somehow feels like transgression
Yesterday: Zappwned
A senior Melanesian MP
Thought twitter was the place to be
But found a profusion
Of online confusion
Where people wrote things like “OG.”
