{"id":71105,"date":"2026-03-10T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71105"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:04:29","slug":"i-swear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/03\/i-swear\/","title":{"rendered":"I swear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourette\u2019s you know that syndrome<br \/>\nThat feels as though it takes<br \/>\nYou over not in clover<br \/>\nReality it breaks<br \/>\nNoises come and go for you<br \/>\nThe inquisitive are drawn<br \/>\nIt upsets people peace and quiet<br \/>\nAnd wondering why we were born<br \/>\nTo be all loud and shouty<br \/>\nLacking love and care<br \/>\nShouting in the mirror<br \/>\nAbout those those of us who swear<br \/>\n\u201cI swear\u201d<br \/>\nKirk Jones the Director<br \/>\nThe perspective  was profound<br \/>\nThe idiocy forgotten<br \/>\nThe poignancy around<br \/>\nFamilies stressed, and so concerned<br \/>\nAbout how it all plays out<br \/>\nJohn Davidson and his MBE<br \/>\nIn Galashiels  no doubt<\/p>\n<p>Try to watch this  movie<br \/>\nThink back on the day<br \/>\nYou walked into the cinema<br \/>\nAnd it blew you away<br \/>\nYou felt the tears of yesteryear<br \/>\nRolling down each cheek<br \/>\nIt brought those years of melancholy<br \/>\nBack<br \/>\nYou were never a freak <\/p>\n<p>You cried a lot<br \/>\nYou were on your own<br \/>\nPoetry was your thing<br \/>\nIt\u2019s what kept you together<br \/>\nKind of helped you bring<br \/>\nSome sanity back in your life<br \/>\nThough around you people felt<br \/>\nAs bonkers as they thought you were<br \/>\nAnd as your cards were dealt<\/p>\n<p>People became more quizzical<br \/>\nMore understanding they<br \/>\nHeard shouting from the mirror<br \/>\nAnd began to remember the day<br \/>\nThey understood what was happening<br \/>\nBut why nobody knew<br \/>\nThat perhaps it was vaccinations<br \/>\nDoing it to you <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourette\u2019s you know that syndrome That feels as though it takes You over not in clover Reality it breaks Noises come and go for you The inquisitive are drawn It upsets people peace and quiet And wondering why we were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/03\/i-swear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,344,951,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-abandonment","category-tourettes-syndrome","category-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71107,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71105\/revisions\/71107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}