POETRY CORNER

Everyone thought Alan was going to win after Treguard and Pickle’s thrilling introduction to the seventh episode of series 6, but a fatal fall followed and the victory was not to be.

A challenge from the men of Herts,

Objects’ choice is how it starts.

With scroll of notes and bar of gold,

Alan met a champ of old.

A good take-off Hands had not made,

Ah Wok then shrank before a blade.

With killer back in the Orient,

A silver bar was repayment.

Hands then drank the tavern dry,

But minstrel’s sword caused him to fly.

Past causeway, wall and dragon-flight,

Sidriss’ face was quite a fright!

Next glove and gold, then Lord Fear’s plan,

To be a harmless beggar-man.

The lid was closed o’er magic eye,

And swapped for beauty by and by.

With Sidriss back to pretty glee,

A voyage by ship to level three.

The goblins waited there below,

And Alan’s team were just too slow.

Causeway crumbled, Alan fell,

Time again for that death-knell!