Adrian, our poet-neighbour from 'Over The Hedge’, composed this sonnet for Annie for her last birthday:

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NOTES ON A BIRTHDAY 

Through the birdlit skywashed trees

we list for notes in case of one going spare 

your voice adrift on summer breeze

across the hedge from over there

 

Carole’s out with piles of washing

I’m planting beans and bamboo canes

here you come with opera sploshing

surprised are we in Colwall’s lanes

 

Dabnabbit, Annie, nice one, thanks

the moles and robins listen

we watch our veg in serried ranks

see beetroot turn and smile and glisten

 

as music peeps ‘cross window ledge

you are the gal across our hedge