Happy Valentine's Day

Fiddlina was busy cleaning the house

and could not see a single mouse.

'Now where could everyone be,' she thought,

As she got the bedding and started to sort

The laundry out to get it all clean,

Before polishing furniture to a nice sheen.

 'What's that?' she said, as she looked on a chair.

'A big red heart? What's that doing there?'

She picked up the heart and on it she read

To find the next clue look under the bed.

Fiddlina giggled and ran up the stairs,

And picked up the socks she'd put in to pairs.

Underneath another heart lay.

'Next go out to where we play.'

She ran downstairs and out the door,

And lying on the garden floor

Another heart in shiny red.

'Now go back in the lounge ,' it said.

She walked back in but didn't know

In which room she was supposed to go.

She went in the kitchen. Nothing was there.

Opened the oven. Stood on a chair.

'Oh my.' She said as on top of the shelf

She found a sock, toast and a cuddly elf?

'This really needs a clean,' she thought,

But her treasure hunt was what she sought.

She ran upstairs. Looked under the beds.

More socks, a book and paper in shreds.

She thought she heard a mousey laugh

and ran to look inside the bath.

Nothing there or in the sink.

Fiddlina sat and had a think.

Off downstairs, under the chair.

More socks were hiding under there.

'What's that?' she thought and heard a noise.

'I wonder if it was the boys.

They're awfully quiet, it's quite a worry,'

And in to the dining room with a scurry.

'Oh!' she said for on the table,

With a bow and heart shaped label,

A huge box of chocolates and a card.

Fiddlina looked at them very hard.

'For me!' she said and looked around,

and then she heard a cheery sound.

'Hurray Fiddlina. Our valentine,'

And out the boys popped in a line.

'Oh how lovely,' Fiddlina blushed.

'Open the card,' the boys said, flushed.

'To Fiddlina a wonderful mouse,

Who looks after us with a tidy house.'

Fiddlina smiled and opened the box

And handed round the lovely chocs.

'Thank you all so very much.

The heart cards were a lovely touch.'

They all sat and ate the Valentine chocs,

Fiddlina  didn't mention the various socks.

She made a mental note to herself

To clean all the carpets and every shelf.

'Oh,' she said. 'What about TIna?

I'm not the only mouse house cleaner.'

'It was her idea,' Bongo said,

As Tina went a shade of red.

'You're always so nice when I get things wrong.

Like stop the dusting to sing a song

or leave the vacuum on the stairs

and don't put clean socks in to pairs.

Fiddlina blushed. 'How very nice

To have friends like all you lovely mice.'

All of the band would like to say

Have a Happy Valentine's day.