Thank you, Mups, it was.  Most importantly though - the birthday boy had a good day!

I shook Joe off onto the path
It was if he was having a laugh
For he jumped back on
As he whistled a song
Which really increased my wrath

My day out had been spoiled

I have just shampoo'd Liffey in the garden under the hosepipe.
She wasn't amused.  

Sounds like you had a lovely day, Tabby.  

I shook Joe off onto the path
It was if he was having a laugh
For he jumped back on
As he whistled a song

A few years ago in Dundee
During a day trip to the sea
a lobster named Joe
took a bite from my toe
Then crawled up and chomped on my knee

I shook Joe off onto the path

 - but they were happy tears.  It is his 90th Birthday and I had made one of my special cards - the look on his face when he opened it had me a bit wet behind the eyes as well.  His wife, M, and I have been good friends for 80 years and have never actually fallen out.  Had disagreements, yes, but always .resolved them amicably.  She and T met through a mutual interest in aeroplanes.  He was in the Royal Observer Corps, (featured on the card), and was a coal miner (also featured on the card) when they first met.  He retrained and became an electrician for the City Council.
 Today was lovely - their daughter is currently on holiday in Turkey but telephoned to wish her Dad a  happy birthday, and their son,  who lives in France now, came over especially to be with his Dad for the occasion.  He took T off to a nearby private airfield to play at 'plane spotters' for the day, while M and I put the world to rights over bowls of soup and T's wonderful homemade bread.

Came home on happy little pink fluffy clouds - heavily disguised as a 'bus - and reality hit me in the eye when I opened the front door and found Nemo, the monster cat, had disembowelled one of his dinosaurs in the hall - catnip everywhere!  Naturally, he said it wasn't his fault - he was just patting it to be friendly and it fell apart with shock.  Yeah - right! 

A few years ago in Dundee
During a day trip to the sea 
a lobster named Joe
took a bite from my toe

A few years ago in Dundee
During a day trip to the sea

Thatcher left office nearly 40 years ago.