Today’s rhyme, “This Pig went to Market” is an older version of the one we all used to count our toes with. I couldn’t help thinking during the planning stage that during the time this thing was written, when one spoke[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The slip of paper for today’s sketch, Robbin and Bobbin, fell from the magic tupperware container when I was giving it one final shake… If that’s not random chance that must not be questioned I don’t know what is. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to the annotation today’s rhyme, The Old Pudding-Pye Woman, is just the first verse of a much longer poem, which probably would make it make a lot more sense… apparently it goes into great detail about her ‘nauseous and personal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By an incredible coincidence today’s rhyme “Can You Make a Horseshoe?” is the one right after yesterday’s in the Annotated Mother Goose and two before the day before… If I didn’t know any better I’d think I accidentally rigged the game.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I briefly thought of doing today’s rhyme, Henry was a Worthy King, literally until I got to the finally verse and it seemed clear it was a couple of kids playing at kings and queens in the garden. On a side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhyme, “I Doubt, I doubt”, made no sense whatsoever when I read it the first time. I guess it had something to do with a guy going nuts when his wife was out and… when she got home she killed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s nursery rhyme, “Dance Thumbkin, Dance!” I’ve come to the conclusion that children sitting on their parent’s lap is something I have to add to the bin, containing cats and horses, of things I can’t draw without a reference.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think today’s rhyme, “A Long Tail’d Pig” is more of an example of values dissonance than a when was this ever for kids rhyme. At first I assumed the latter because of… brutality of the life on the farm, butchering[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, Madam, I Come a Courting, was another one that kind of stumped me the only real detail that’s given (beyond a courtship going on) is the implication that since the woman wants a handsome man, the suitor isn’t one. In the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found today’s rhyme Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes to be an interesting example of how the language changes… I’d never even seen wanton as a noun before… and even then I think i’m going to have to crack open my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
