Reference :- With all the bad news of late , we need some cheering up .

Reference :-     Our favourite cartoon " First Dog On The Moon "  by Andrew Marlton , has suggested that limericks can cheer us in stressful times .

The Sky Reply team is in self imposed lockdown .    Its not that bad really.  And Ken junior says that  there is no point in visiting Kooralya  anyway ,  since the regular supply of European backpackers has dried up .

He has written this limerick . I daresay there were a great many written in the tube stations of London during the blitz  , and The Sky Reply has found the funniest of these , which will be reproduced in a future post . Keep an eye out for it .   But for now , here is Ken junior's .

                   "  Mr Dutton Is All Clapped Up With Coronavirus "     by Ken junior


                        An unpopular federal minister ,
                        Ran policies cruel and sinister ,
                        Now he's in isolation ,
                        To the glee of the nation ,
                        And not expecting a visitor .

  At first we weren't going to post this limerick, since  it is unkind to laugh at somebody's misfortune.    But  Mr Dutton , like Mr Morrison , strikes me as a man with a keenly developed sense of humour , unlikely to take offense .     

      Your comrade , Ken