There’s always one stuck in your head isn’t there? Where does it come from? – ‘If you’re happy and you know it shout Paint Pots!’, ‘Five little speckled frogs’, ‘Row, row, row ….’, ‘wind the bobbin up’. And why do children never tire of them?  Eventually of course they move on to the next room, the next set of songs but we seem to stick with the tried and tested favourites. We are hoping to unearth some creative talents in our staff this year to produce some home grown catchy little numbers. I did one for the flu bug  (now a distant memory – the swine flu and the song!) :

Tune (Frere Jacques)

Find a tissue, find a tissue

Blow your nose, blow your nose

Put it in the bin please, put it in the bin please

Wash your hands, wash your hands

Nothing wrong with using other people’s tunes – there’s a great tradition of it.  Let’s get some new songs out there Britain!!