Magnetic fridge poetry

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Remember when this was a ‘thing’? Magnetic words that you stick on your fridge or other suitable surface and play around with to make poetry. I guess the height of this fashion must have been about 30 years ago already – what a scary thought! I never bought any as they always seemed expensive for what they were but I do remember laughing as we put together some entertaining verses in other people’s kitchens! We now have a tub full that we were given a while ago in a box of random bits and pieces. They haven’t been played with much, partly because the fridge in our kitchen is the ‘integrated’ kind which means it’s hidden behind a wood-effect door, so we can’t stick anything magnetic on it, and we don’t have other suitable surfaces. So the only place is the freezer hidden away in the utility room, and sometimes Little One likes to go in there and arrange the words into one endless nonsensical stream. But yesterday as I was hanging up the washing and doing a bit of tidying up I ‘rediscovered’ these and it was actually rather fun spending a few minutes putting some verses together. The hard part always used to be destroying whatever you had created to make something different, but now of course it’s easy to take a photo if you want to keep your 'masterpiece', and then start again. Anyone else like playing with words? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.