OUR PHYLLIS AND THE PRUNES!!

It was in Orpington Hospital we happened to meet;
`Phyllis Ryan from Gloucester’ – with the gert fat feet!
Yet cheerful she was, and with a smile on her face
She’d say, “I’d love another cup of tea, Grace”

She’d sit on her bed all hot and uncovered
Whilst we exchanged all the news and tit-bits we’d heard.
She’d sit there with her fan always blowing
Trying to avoid Mrs Mayhew’s crowing.

One day of prunes she was given too many
And although it was wicked it was really quite funny;
She had bedpans in stacks – piled up three high
And the nurses, when they passed, would all give a sigh!

The visitors, they all said, “Well, Well, Well!!”
And it even astounded poor Sister Bell
Who was heard to comment “It’ll be a year come next June
Before Phyllis Ryan can face another prune”.

Grace Russ – August 1976