OK, I have to admit defeat. There is, apparently, no village, town, or city in the UK that starts with an X!
There are plenty that start with EX, such as:
Exe – Somerset
Exe – Devon
Exeter – Devon
Exley – Calderdale
Exminster – Devon
Exmoor – Somerset
Exmouth – Devon
Exnaboe – Shetland Islands
Exning – Suffolk
Exted – Kent
Exton – Hampshire
Although the great google in the sky says that Exe exists in both Devon and Somerset I can only find the River Exe, which I was aware of.
It rises at Exe Head, near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, 5.2 miles from the Bristol Channel coast, but flows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in Devon. It is 35 miles long.
The longest river in the UK is the River Severn which is 220 miles long and has the greatest flow in England and Wales. It has been the source of a great deal of flooding recently.
Not that any of this gives me a limerick, so here goes.
Sexy-Sadie from Exe in Devon
thought she’d died and ended in heaven
but sad to recall
she had suffered a fall
and was drowning quite fast in the Severn
Good one even as Exe
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Thank you Margo.
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Well done you. Now I’m worried. After Z, then what? Turn round and start again? I’m already pondering where Z will take you and have just had a personal bet with myself. Let’s see…
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Yes, on my other series I’ve gone A to Z and back. You’ll have to wait to see if you win the bet!
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Did you never play that schoolboy game? You said the name of a place, and the next person used the last letter of your place, as the first letter of theirs? And the (unknowing) “winner” was the person who was able to say Halifax!
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That game must have skipped my area!
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I think I played it – oncee – before I realised it was just a trap.
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Eek! Poor Sadie! 🙂
Great limerick, Peter! You done good! (Forgive my poor grammar!)
HUGS!!! 🙂
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I’m a very forgiving type. Hugs back to you.
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🙂
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Nicely done! 😀 And a nice geography lesson!
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I would use X as the unknown factor! 🙂
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There are some lovely village and town names in your part of the world Meg!
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Oh Sadie…. I wish her to be bobbing instead of dead!
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She’s a resilient girl, I’m sure she’ll wash ashore!
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Okay, good to know! 🙂
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Well done! 🙂
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Thank you.
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You always come up with something great no matter what
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Thank you Lynn.
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Oh, yes, and good work on the exes 🙂
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Thanks Sue.
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Interesting about no place starting with X in UK. I have not thought along those lines about places here. Sad for Sadie 🙂
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The Severn is known for its bore
Quite the thing in riverine lore.
It’ll sweep you away
At the end of the day
And then you will rhyme nevermore.
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Bravo Josie. I love it!
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Oh WOW!!! This is so cool! Ok. I was oblivious that You are working Your way through the alphabet via limerick!!! That’s crazy cool! And well done, I mean, I don’t mean to cheer for Sadie’s demise…but well done!!! Cheers! 🙂
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Oh dear, poor Sadie 😦 I hope someone fishes her out!
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Funny, as usual.
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