There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!

After struggling for ages to think of anything interesting to say about goats, there was a breakthrough this afternoon when Dot told me about a recent HSBC advert that featured goats grazing in a tree!

Here is a link to the advert

In trying to find this video, I came across another person who had a problem with the goat-sheep continuum.

It also reminded me of the whole business of donating money to, for example, Oxfam to buy, for example, goats for someone in the third world instead of buying presents for your family and friends.

If this is your type of thing (or this is the first you have heard of it), here are two websites that might be of interest:
Oxfam unwrapped
A bbc story

While I think that it is an excellent idea to donate money to these causes, and that most Christmas presents are a waste of time/space/money/resources/etc, it seems a bit odd that we would need to pretend that such a donation is a Christmas present for one of our friends or relatives.

She swallowed the goat to catch the dog …
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird …
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die.

Thank you to Naomi and Dot for providing goat photos