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    Beam Me Back To Venus
    Beam Me Back To Venus
    Beam Me Back To Venus
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    Beam Me Back To Venus

    By Dianne Barr

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    ‘Beam Me Back to Venus’ is a light-hearted collection of humorous poetry based around the joys and challenges of parenting children from birth through the teenage years. Written from a mother’s point of view, many will relate to the frustrations of juggling paid work with the daily taxi run, housework and the dramas of bringing up a busy family. Families everywhere face the same dilemma of the last minute homework project, how to be four places at once and where do all those odd socks go?

    Despite all the child rearing books, we who produce offspring will always stumble on as best we can to raise the little ones into the finest people we can and have a lot of joy, laughter and tears along the way. If only they came with a manual.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDianne Barr
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310715334
    Beam Me Back To Venus
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    Dianne Barr

    Dianne Barr was born in England and emigrated to New Zealand while young. For some years Dianne used pottery and sculpture as her creative outlet, selling and exhibiting her work in Auckland and around the country. Now living in Melbourne she is finding time to follow her love of the written word.Her first book, Beam Me Back To Venus was the result of years of writing humorous poetry for friends and family events. Her inspiration was from English poet Pam Ayers, whose work she had enjoyed for many years. Being a busy mother, the topic of parenting was a natural source of material.Dianne's first novel, Violet, is a labour of love, aimed at preserving the memory of her husbands grandmother and to serve as a reminder of the strength and courage of generations past that mould the people we are today.

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      Beam Me Back To Venus - Dianne Barr

      About the Author

      BOUTIQUE BLUES

      The women with the jewels and the triple double chin,

      Demands more discount, from the twenty-dollar bin.

      The tart from Toorak flounces round the store,

      Throwing $500 garments roughly on the floor.

      Sneering down their noses as I pack their plastic bags,

      They look me up and down, as if I'm wearing rags.

      How did I get here? I wonder to myself

      As I flick my feather duster, quickly round the shelf.

      I did have a brain, once, what is it I have missed?

      I researched in a laboratory, an electron microscopist.

      Owned my own business, was a potter in between,

      Exhibited in art awards, had work chosen by the Queen.

      Moved to another country, far away across the sea.

      Left my friends and family, what will be will always be.

      Had three busy children, juggled preschool, work and school,

      And still these patronising women treat me like a fool.

      So why am I here then? I ask myself again,

      With dreams and ideas putrefying in my

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