Rich, The Knight & Drey is a great name for a pub, even if I lazily read the third word as a reference to a horse (thinking of "dray", no doubt), and I settled myself down for a rollicking poem about a classic down-at-heel pub - which wasn't really what I got.
It carries on rollicking - you handle the metre really well - but the whimsy factor of the Squirrel Wars was just too high for me. And I usually have quite a high tolerance level for whimsy. Put it down to personal taste, not the poem itself.
So this one is not for me. (I'd like to see what you do, one day, with the poem I thought I was reading.)
Cheers
David
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