for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt where the given word is Mudlark and the limit, just 52 words. As soon as I saw it I thought of something I wrote many years ago, so here’s a 52-word précis of my somewhat longer yarn!
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Gloria’s obsessed with cleanliness, says I’m dirty, reckons I’d make a great mudlark!
“Wash your hands, off with those muddy shoes, you’ve got a dirty laugh and a filthy mind.”
She complains the garden’s dirty. What? It’s made of dirt!
I’m insisting one song’s played at her funeral. Mud, mud, glorious mud!
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Want to hear it sung properly?
The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud)
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Keith's Ramblings 
Very nice good morning giggle!!! Thank you!
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The pleasure’s all mine! Thanks, Gypsie.
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This is classic stuff.
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Thanks so much, Sadje.
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You’re welcome
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Poor guy! There are people like Gloria. Actually, now that I’ve conquered acrylic painting, the next thing on my wish list is Become a Clean freak — for a limited time, mind you. 🙂
Love that song; you hooked me when you posted it on Fictioneers.
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I’ve known an artist or two, but never one that’s a clean freak! I remember one commenting that the mess she made was better than the actual painting!
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Now that’s a thought. 😉
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Great – and remember the old song too!
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Once heard, never to be forgotten! Thanks so much.
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Heeheehee — the garden’s dirty, good one. Yes, get a mud scraper and get over it, Gloria.
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She’d rather have artificial grass and plastic flowers!
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Hi Keith – one of my favourite songs – and remembering early childhood times … cheers Hilary
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A song for generation after generation. There’s nothing quite like it!
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Nicely done on the lighter side.
Where I dwell, I’ve been declared OCD. I keep telling her, there is not such thing as clean dirt.
Well told, Keith. 🙂
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Too right Bill. We all need a bit of dirty dirt so we can be at one with nature (that’s me on the serious side!.
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🙂
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Oh Keith! I’m glad you pointed out that was mud, for a second I thought the hippopotamus had visited and left you a present! 😀 I say, you can hold a tune though. Good work! 🙂
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Haha, now that’s a horrible thought! Thanks, Sunra.
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Hm, I wonder how Gloria found her end… This was so much fun, especially listening.
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The cleaner one is the lower one’s immunity I always say! Well, that’s my excuse.
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LOL. I’ve heard that before…
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Hilarious, Keith, and the graphics as much (muddy) fun! Thank you for the introduction to a song that is now dear to my heart! :>)
Pax,
Dora
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It’s ‘once heard never to be forgotten’ songs I remember from my childhood! Thanks, Dora.
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