Rocky Road

I cannot tell the difference

between Rocky Road, tiffin and

the squares of traybake

you chuck at me from your window

when I go out to give the guinea fowl

their breakfast every morning.

Glace cherries, crystallised ginger,

marshmallows and chunks of biscuit.

When you hurl them with such vitriol,

it hurts me babe, it hurts like Hell.

The sting of your sweetmeats,

it hurts me to my core.

And now my keets

are too big for their enclosure.

B.R. 3.3.24

Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy) unsuccessfully tries to round up the flock of guinea fowl inadvertently let loose by his brother Tristan in "Fair Means and Fowl", an episode of the original and best series of All Creatures Great and Small from 1978.