This has always made me giggle, probably because I've always found it to be a tongue-twister, but also for the words made up so that the rhyme fits: One of my favourite poems from ‘Now We Are Six’ has to be ‘Sneezles’. In some ways, maybe this could be seen as quite sad is it loneliness that has created 'Binker' or is it just for fun? Binker is a perfect friend who can always be relied on and a great way of getting double chocolate treats - ‘as his teeth are rather new’! ‘Binker’ is probably another verse many can relate to – he is a ‘secret’, or an imaginary friend, ‘who is always there’. But what to do in the meantime…make up a game (or two)!!
A different game is imagined this time though – two raindrops on the windowpane are named John and James respectively, but which will win the race? Perhaps children and adults alike can relate to this poem as, at one time or another, maybe we've looked out of the window, willing the rain to stop, so that we can play outside again. A further verse that also seems to feature the nursery and the rain is ‘Waiting At The Window'.
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