{"id":4000,"date":"2013-01-31T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2015-07-19T00:34:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:34:29","slug":"when-i-get-old-lettuce-turnip-the-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/when-i-get-old-lettuce-turnip-the-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Get Old ‘Lettuce Turnip The Beet’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following picture was tweeted to me this morning from @grasscraig and it so made me smile I wanted to share, especially given its theme!<\/p>\n

\"Lettuce<\/a>

Photo via Electra on http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n

I tracked down the supplier to Electra from Manhattan, New York<\/a> who has an Etsy shop<\/a> and have made my enquiries about posting here (it’s a copyrighted\/trademarked tee-shirt so if anyone’s looking and thinking of getting a local printer to make up anything \u00a0that says Lettuce Turnip The Beet\u2122 they may check out the laws first, it’s a big no-no!<\/p>\n

I was even more pleased to find that the ladies version is, wait for it, PURPLE<\/a><\/strong> so is now firmly on my wish list!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You may have come across the following poem about getting older and wearing purple, but if not here it is. As I have a big birthday coming up this year, I plan to be fully embracing the\u00a0philosophy\u00a0(actually I think I already am)<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Warning by Jenny Joseph<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
\nWith a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
\nAnd I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
\nAnd satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
\nI shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
\nAnd gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
\nAnd run my stick along the public railings
\nAnd make up for the sobriety of my youth.
\nI shall go out in my slippers in the rain
\nAnd pick flowers in other people’s gardens
\nAnd learn to spit.<\/p>\n

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
\nAnd eat three pounds of sausages at a go
\nOr only bread and pickle for a week
\nAnd hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.<\/p>\n

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
\nAnd pay our rent and not swear in the street
\nAnd set a good example for the children.
\nWe must have friends to dinner and read the papers.<\/p>\n

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
\nSo people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
\nWhen suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
I hope it’s helped to bring a smile to your face today. I’ll be back in the next day or two with my weekly roundup of environmental and gardening news.<\/em><\/div>\n

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