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Mar 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Do you hate earwigs? Probably not as much as the formidable Connie Rees!
In 1962 she wrote a jingle to the tune of ‘Old Macdonald had a Farm’ as a complaint about the earwig invasion in her home, addressed to the development corporation's general manager, R. S. McDougall.
'Old McDougall had a town Earwig, Earwig, O,
With an Earwig here, and an Earwig there,
With an Earwig nearly everywhere,
Old McDougall had a town, Earwig Earwig, O.’🎶
Yours sincerely, Connie Rees
