Leonard Sheppard

My name is Leonard Sheppard. A film maker of some repute. In 1982 I began work at the BBC as a tea boy. This led to the role of deputy news editor for North West Wales in late 1983, when my dedication to tea was recognised by Director Of Factual Content, Graham Sheppard. Now here i am...

Apr 20
To be quite terse, there’s nothing worse than roaches in the kitchen. A scrap of bread, their family’s fed, while I’m perplexed and bitchin’. In days gone by I made a pie… You’d rather I skip the rest? Let it be said a roach that’s dead   is always at its best. So no more Zen, not now or then. Scratch live & let live ways. A roach who shares MY kitchen dares to see its final days!

To be quite terse,
there’s nothing worse
than roaches in the kitchen.
A scrap of bread,
their family’s fed,
while I’m perplexed and bitchin’.

In days gone by
I made a pie…
You’d rather I skip the rest?
Let it be said
a roach that’s dead

 


is always at its best.

So no more Zen,
not now or then.
Scratch live & let live ways.
A roach who shares
MY kitchen dares

to see its final days!
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