Don't miss deadlines in your lifelines
Omenously I missed my first
So I was born Caesarian
A timed plan B surgeons rehearsed
Our five-year-old learned about time
She demanded a big, pink clock
I am glad to say it arrived on time
But alarmed us with loud tick-tock
Pink kiddie clock from Amazon. Sharot family photo. Edited by Angela Lansbury.
Never in ten past million years
Would I have added pink ears on top
But it works. She watches hands turn
Breakfast, travel to school, bed, stop
She knows about tricycles and bicycles
About big buses and long trains
She looks at pictures of big ships
Cruise liners and big aeroplanes
She asked, 'What is a lifeboat for?'
We don't want to make her panic
No need to tell her of shipwrecks
Rules dating from the Titanic
We tell her, 'You must have plan B
For each eventuality
If your big ship is stuck on rocks
Go home on small boats pulled from blocks.'
Another deadline passed today
My poem missed it yesterday
So it will not be in a book
But it's on here, dear, when you look.
We all know daytime's when it's light
Watches and clocks spread to time trains
We set alarms in mobile phones
To make sure we cstch tides and planes.
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Summary and general information
1Nationwide timing, instead of each area using sunrise and stars, was needed after railways needed to co-ordinates timetables and clocks.
2 The requirement for ships to have enough lifeboats for all passengers came in after the enquiry into the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
Travel tips
1 You can use a mobile phone as an alarm clock.
2 In my phone settings, the alarms over-ride my don’t disturb setting.
3 Check your phone to re-set alarms in new time zones.
2 Check your date of arrival as well as time. We once missed a party held in our honour, not realiding that we left Lonfon one day but reached Singapore the next day.
2 Our five year old understands time to get ready go to school and to leave for private and public transport.
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