From there, we took an open top bus to Tottenham where my Uncle Arthur lived with his wife, Aunt Annie.

C. You're like my Aunt Annie.

But they and Aunt Annie never got on.

The poem starts as a straightforward evocation of his childhood visits to his Aunt Annie's farm:

Aunt Annie dies but returns as a benevolent ghost to encourage young Paul to keep writing.

I heard you at Christmas when you told Aunt Annie that.

With all of the men away at war, Maggie coordinates a truce between Aunt Annie's girls and the respectable women of the town.

In the mutual animosity excited by Aunt Annie, those who had become estranged were reconciled almost immediately.

Check them out at Aunt Annie's, Belfast on the 17th of January supporting Deerstalker.

It can even be delivered by courier; Aunt Annie might think that pretentious, but some would be impressed.