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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.2 July 2012
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The Captain’s Orders:
Club Matters
We have celebrated our Queens Jubilee reign
Every one agreeing it has not been in vein
Rather like the celebrations held for our club
We enjoyed the entertainers and sumptuous grub
Now let’s go forward with a common aim
‘To the future’ with no bad habits to name

Now if I may I would like take the liberty to entertain you with an
original verse of mine which came to me whilst walking home
through my local woods and although written some years ago I The Captain
would like to share it with you in the hope it might strike a similar (Dismal Jemmy).
cord within you with it’s tenuous connection to cycling.
GLOBAL WARMING

In times gone by and periods before
the world did not suffer man or require a shore
but with evolution the pattern changed
man appeared when the planet rearranged
But still
The changing seasons deliver; life's rich spoil
continuing, the timeless efforts of natures toil
like sunlight striking through standing trees
the oxygen of life is but a passing breeze
then why does the human race all efforts devise
success in consuming creation; to profit its size
It appears an inevitable and concluding theme
That man will be destroyed in achieving his dream