Limerick writing Mark 3 (colour, animal,number).

Their oars were both to-ing and fro-ing

They soon passed a duck

All covered in muck

Whose pink frilly knickers were showing.

(Is "muck" a nail varnish colour, maybe?)

I tell you FarNorth you were lucky to get the word muck I had contemplated using another 4 letter word but being a polite Nan I desisted !

(But that wouldn't have made sense, NanKate...
You can't be covered in it, can you? )

Fair point Ana.

Three sailors were tying their knots

In bandanas with eau-de-nil spots

Pink suspenders with fishy-net stockings

(No, too long. Whip off the pink suspenders!)

Have you added a line or not, papaoscar and, if so, what is it?

In three interlockings

While waiting for twenty-nine yachts.

The capuchin monkeys were swinging

As seventeen frogs were a-singing

The hippo's got wind.

Up red vines they shinned

And the paradise birds were a-winging

Two royals at the Commonwealth Games.

(Hey, I think we got the hang of the rhythm!)

Saw Scotties proclaiming their aims.

(Thanks Alie more luck than judgement)

Kilts like dog blankets

Who had the red anklets?