How To Make The Perfect Cup Of Tea: Summer 2023

By Paula Glynn

How to make the perfect cup of tea: needed for delving into those science fiction stories of Star Trek to Aquarius and to visions that magically come alive from a dreamcatcher, swinging above that peaceful night-time bed. Fate and destiny written in the stars. Science fiction now becoming science fact. In centuries to come people residing on Mars. Perhaps building buildings to house and entertain and provide for the people on Mars. Perhaps there even being a MacDonald’s!

Now alive is the wondrous world of an Indian Princess that does roam the palace with her tiger to Betty who curses the greasy spoon’s ketchup. Also read about the lives of Vivienne Westwood, Roddy Doyle, Jessica Alba… Stars that made the valuable and profitable entertainment world happen.

Read on if you want to read these many tales: stories of adventure and excitement. Stories of criminals to famous rockstars to Spaceman X: everyone has their destiny and their tale to tell. Which will be your favourite story?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9781447506614

Book preview

How To Make The Perfect Cup Of Tea

Summer 2023

Paula Glynn

Funky Fashionista

Luscious Lipstick

Her lipstick a calling card

Boyfriends wiping away

Any trace she’d been there

Her deep fuchsia lipstick

Making many people stare

In both admiration

And a touch of envy

Her feminine charms

Pushing away those who mean her harm

For she a woman of the times

She doesn’t play mind games

She doesn’t live in ignorance and isn’t blind

Her romances creating and giving her excitement

Wearing her rich and vibrant luscious lipstick

On adult nights out

Knowing the men will always know her name

Wearing light pink lipstick in the daytime

Loving light pink or a touch of nude

Her makeup forever up-to-date

And sometimes understated

For makeup and lipstick colour her face

Even though boyfriends wipe off her fuchsia lipstick

From their mouths, trying to remove all trace

She’d been there, hating the stain of her lipstick

But like people she knows

Lipstick is meant to attract attention

A colourful personality that always shows

And people will always love looking at her face.

Funky High-Heels

A woman with a vast wardrobe

Full of rainbow funky high heels

From sharp stilettos to easy-to-walk-in wedges

Pumps and comfortable summer sandals

Heeled boots and court shoes in black

And every other type of shoe

For she is 100% pure female

And loves funky high heels

Showing off the sexy line of her leg

Knowing she knows how to make men beg

With her head held high walking down the street

In the clack-clack of those Barbie high heels

Her look feminine and gorgeous

And keeping strongly steady

With every step that keeps her ready

For a day out and evening out

Having the time of her life

Knowing she’ll never need to be a man

To stay on top of the game and be a figurehead

For she is all woman who takes life in her stead

But still loves wonderful and vibrant men as much as she can

For being a woman, men she does understand.

Fresh Manicures

Loving her nails from 11 years old

Starting with violet purple nail polish

Going onto Constance Carroll summer pink

And Avon nail polishes from her mother’s catalogue

Learning to cut and file down her nails

Learning to clean her nails regularly

With foaming soap and a soft nail brush

Sometimes having her nails done at the salon

Sometimes doing her own press-on nails

For manicures are the sign of vanity

And an important and vital vanity too

Going from a whole rainbow of colours

From black, deep purple, pinks, reds and blues

Loving looking good and loving being female

For she is a funky fashionista

She reads Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire

Magazines she does love and have a passion for

Magazines she reads page-after-page

Loving the innovative fashion photography

Beauty pages she does not ignore

And within those powerful pages

Comes the magic and excitement of fashion:

It comes self-expression and rainbow colour

Creativity and vanity and fun

For everyone all over the globe when walking in the sun

And she treasures her looks and personal fashion sense

For she is creative, rightfully vain and always fun.

Real-Life Story: Vicky

Vicky born in September in 1982 in England

Her mother Mary adoring and loving her innocence

But her father walking away and abandoning her

His freedom and wild youth days he did prefer

Leaving her mother alone and pregnant

Vicky never to get close to or discover her father

Not even when an old woman in the residential home

But Vicky carries on throughout childhood

Learning grace along the way

Never the thief and never maliciously lying

Only telling essential white lies

But her mother to sleep all day

The bed too comfortable for her mother

When Vicky wanted to go out and play

Some trouble with nasty and insecure classmates

As is what happens to many innocent children

Children unaware of the effect of their actions

Vicky now in safer foster care

However, now with an aggressive foster father to beware

Her home life with some difficulties

Emotional and upsetting wear and tear

But time goes on where Vicky learns skills:

From cookery, cleaning and advanced reading

Although once having cut her leg shaving

Her leg now painfully and badly bleeding

Vicky to never shave again: no matter how safe the razor

Vicky also with a learning disability but surviving

With the support of her foster mother and her friends

Secondary school to finish with best as possible grades

Now working life to take its place

Vicky working in cookery and cleaning

Eventually scoring her own apartment

Although Vicky to move on eight times

2015 the year personal issues to arise

Unfortunately no one surprised

Vicky to be diagnosed with COVID-19

A illness that led Vicky to die three times

Being resuscitated three times

Spending five months in hospital

Another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic

Vicky luckily not losing her rented home

Her social worker making sure Vicky didn’t go it alone

Vicky losing her foster father to illness

Her foster mother having been married to him for years

Sally crying endless bitter tears

Her soulmate gone to the final end: the grave

While Vicky doesn’t behave

Sally now furious with her rage

For Vicky should’ve behaved

But Vicky looks on the bright side:

Always shopping and seeking medical advice

Always making sure she catches the bus on time

And advice she doesn’t need to hear twice

For a passionate and loud person is Vicky

Making sure no one ignores her

And her vibrant personality and emotional needs

Always looking for a sexy man

Making herself look good and do all she can

To be sexy and attractive to the male mind

Fifty Shades of Grey occupying her me-time

Us talking about those sexy police men

In spite of all the actions she did then

For Vicky is protected by me like a mother hen

No one writing that nasty writing: that poison pen

No one verbally abusing my friend

No one bullying my precious friend

No one insulting my normal friend

No one faking niceness

No one sly and pretend

For friends will always be friends

Vicky living her life on the run:

Not always for the best

But there is heartfelt and wise hope

There is a vast universal scope

Like looking at the night stars through a telescope

For Vicky has deep friendship and honorable hope

And there is no one that can unknot our rope.

Girl About Town Eating A Bag Of Crisps

I see a teenage girl,

Eating a bag of crisps,

Outside the newsagent,

Whether the crisps are bacon,

Ridge steak or chicken;

Any flavour of potato snack will do,

And she stands there,

Not worrying if passersby stare,

And what they may think,

For she is a girl about town,

Eating a bag of crisps,

This teenage girl isn't overweight,

And she doesn't dress in tracksuits,

Or look an utter state,

And she eats in company,

And will never apologise for hunger,

For she loves eating a pack of crisps,

As well as other food:

Both savoury and sweet,

No matter the weather,

Or season, she finds comfort,

In standing outside the newsagent,

Eating her bag of crisps,

And she knows no matter her age,

She will always enjoy her food,

If people do rudely stare,

She knows she never needs to compare,

Herself to other people,

For it is rude to stare,

And she is a regular down the shop,

And she loves her crisps,

As they open with a pop,

She eats many flavours;

The choices don't stop,

For she is a free spirit,

And respects herself full stop,

Friends come and go,

But she is a permanent girl about town,

Eating a bag of crisps,

Her favourite flavour Smokey bacon,

But never a greedy pig herself.

If There Were A MacDonald’s On Mars

If there were a MacDonald’s on Mars

People would flock for their divine cheeseburgers

People would devour French fries and other tasty treats

People would find Mars all the more delicious

For that reason and for that food passion in every season

Having travelled to Mars for three months

In a small spaceship, their bravery incredible.

If there were a Trader Joe’s on Mars

People on Mars would happily queue up

For their tempting pizzas and perfect lemonade

For their various forbidden chocolate treats

And vegetables that do top up filling meat

The Martian diet including needing oven heat

The food grown on new-life-Mars a relief.

If there were a bus service on Mars

People would travel all over the red planet

People would spend days with other Martians

Although these