Spike Milligan would have been 93 today.

I only have to think of him and I smile. He was a wonderful comedy genius. My dad loved him and had exactly the same dotty sense of fun.

Happy Birthday Spike. I hope you are up there somewhere still making my dad laugh.

I was going to make up my own Milligan style poem here in tribute, but I can’t think of anything nearly good enough. Here instead is one of his most famous and probably my dad’s favourite:

On the Ning Nany Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
And the Monkeys all say Boo!
There’s a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the teapots Jibber Jabber Joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang!
And you just can’t catch ‘em when they do!
So its’s Ning Nang Nong!
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning!
Trees go Ping!
Nong Ning Nang!
The mice go Clang!
What a noisy place to belong,
Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

Tuesday
Excuse me but
What's the point?
Half way to half way
Dentist day
Dump day
Who would choose Tuesday?
A face in the crowd
No offence
Non taken
Polite, dull
Tuesday

Doesn't even bother to knock
Bashing the door down
The tax collector
The traffic warden
The flu
Boo hoo
MONDAY
Just ...
Go away!

Sunday
slides under the door
soundless
no words at all
welcome
a duvet too small
pull up, cold toes
pull down, cold nose
Sunday, not enough is your sin
but please please please
do come in

Saturday
Hip hip hooray
Sit around and natter day
Boogaloo and yatter day
Alarm clock doesn't matter day
Choc and chip and chatter day
So glad to say it's
SATURDAY