And we named him Valentine!




"Turkish?" you may ask this chap
Who dons a crimson cap

But he would only twiggle his parsnip nose 
Or stomp his snowy toes

Or set his coal black eyes aglow
To express a 'No!'

For he was assembled in Bermondsey
On a Sunday afternoon in February

When 'Valentine' he was christened
For it was to google's suggestion* that we listened.

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*we googled names of babies born in Feb, and Valentine came up as a search result. Highly amused, Jane and I were quick to name our snowman just that.

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