Learning the use of the fronted adverbial, Joyfully feeding my hamster and gerbil. I’d tip my hat to Michael Gove, But Michael Rosen would not approve.
In real life, I’d rather tip my hat to Michael Rosen and offer quite a different gesture to Michael Gove and his army of grammarian mutilators of language, who’ve done so much to inspire their victims with fear and loathing of English lessons.
I should really stop writing verse where the footnote is longer than the poem, if I can call it that. Well, it’s not prose, I suppose (which sounds like the start of another odd ode).