• Chapter Ten starts here: Luke Walker and the allergic reactions

    For the stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter Ten: Luke Walker and the allergic reactions Luke was hesitant. If he made a mistake now it could cost him the game.  Janeway was a good card. She had a lot of Starfleet Authority and was also very cunning.  But which to choose, that was the…

  • Luke Walker and the secret society: the conclusion

    For the whole of chapter 9 click here, for chapters 1 to 8 click here 🙂 ****************** He knew he had to do something but since the shop man suspected him of throwing away five hundred KFC leaflets that Jared was supposed to have delivered on his paper round last week, he needed to keep…

  • Luke Walker and the secret society continues …

    When Joe was clear about how to do it, he went home to make one for himself. “Don’t tell anyone!” Luke reminded him on his way out. After hearing the front door close, Luke stood at the window and watched Joe walk out of the cul-de-sac feeling full of optimism. Now there were two of…

  • Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er Chapter 9 starts here!

    For chapters 1 to 8 click here 🙂 Luke Walker and the secret society Luke handed his notebook to Joe. “Read that and if you agree, write ya name there, under mine, and then put ya thumb print there,” he said, pointing to the designated pages. He uncapped the bottle of black poster paint and…

  • Quick! Sign This! Save the World from Plastic Bottles!

    Every day 16 MILLION plastic bottles go un-recycled in the UK. It’s a plague of plastic that’s choking our rivers and suffocating the ocean — it’s even in our drinking water! But finally there’s hope. The Environment Secretary is considering a revolutionary plan to give people a financial incentive to recycle. It’s a complete no-brainer, but industry lobbyists and even…

  • More Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er COMING SOON

    Luke Walker‘s back! Well, he will be very soon 😀 Watch this space! ************************************** vegan, vegetarian, children’s book, vegan children’s book, fiction, juvenile fiction, vegan children’s stories

  • Quick! The animals need you!

    If you’re a UK resident, Compassion in World Farming needs your help. By current European law, animals are recognised as sentient beings, acknowledging their ability to feel pain, suffer and also experience joy. No one who has seen a cow going outside for the first time after a winter indoors, a hen dust bathing, or…

  • A Handsome Fellow

    Here is the fellow I met yesterday, I don’t know his name, He didn’t say. But he was so handsome, So elegant was he, I quietly admired him, Or was he a she? **************** Can somebody tell me – is he a partridge?  And is he a he or a she? Such a beauty 😀…

  • Path To Freedom

    This is inspiring and uplifting – give it 15 minutes and enjoy your day 😀 ********************* home grown, self sufficient, eco-friendly, organic food, garden, gardening, fruit and vegetable growing, vegan, vegetarian, freedom

  • Animal Sanctuary Poem Week: Day 5

    Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare The Broyle, Ringmer, East Sussex, BN8 5AJ, UK Tel:  (01825) 840252 e:  info@raystede.org Today I saw some horrible men Who were happy in their pursuit Of rabbits with their tiny dogs Who were sent down the holes by the brutes. These horrible men, these are the type Who work at…

  • Animal Sanctuary Poem Week: Day 4

    Hillside Animal Sanctuary Frettenham, Norfolk Wendy Valentine’s amazing Her firey compassion don’t stop blazing. Her sanct’ry is home to many a horse, It goes without saying, she’s vegan of course! There’s chickens and ducks and budgies and turkeys, And sheep and cows and llamas and donkeys. There’s rabbits and emus, alpacas and deer, There’s even…

  • Animal Sanctuary Poem Week: Day 3

    FRIEND farm Animal Rescue East Peckham, Tonbridge, Kent Marion and Mark made FRIEND And such good friends they are, To pigs and goats and cows and sheep And turkeys and geese and more. They give a gift to Death Row souls The best gift they could give: Forever freedom in paradise, Now they can really…

  • Animal Sanctuary Poem Week: Day 2

    Hugletts Wood Farm Animal Sanctuary Dallington, East Sussex Imagine a place where cows can live Their whole lives out in peace. They’re rescued from the dairy hell But now live free from cheese. Big and strong and vulnerable They’re right where they should be, A home of love with Wenda and Matt, They’re even pleased…

  • Animal Sanctuary Poem Week: Day 1

    Tower Hill Stables Asheldham , Essex Fiona Oakes and Martin, They’re such a funny pair. Like vegan superheroes They’re running here and there. At Tower Hills, their sanct’ry, They never seem to stop. They have so many rescues, They work until they drop. So look them up and you’ll see The lovelies in their care,…

  • Miss Mabel Raymonde-Hawkins

    This wonderful woman, who sadly died in 1998, was a life-long advocate for animals.  She writes in her book Sensible Pets and Silly People, referring to activities with her childhood friend when she was 5 years old: “… I do not think there was any crime we would not commit for an animal.  We were…

  • Please Help With This Petition To Get Raystede To Go Vegan!

    Tried to reblog this post but the button won’t load and time is running out on the library computer!  So please go over to Maud Earnshaw’s site and read this post – it’s so important!  If we have any chance of making a better world it starts with well-respected animal welfare organisations recognising the suffering of…

  • Mountains and Christmas and toy cars with doors that open

    For the story so far click here 🙂 Wednesday 18 December Jude has started drawing a cartoon strip.  It’s really good, she’s great at cartoons.  I really like the way she does people’s fingers and curly hair.  So far she’s drawn seven pictures.  I wonder what she’ll name her characters.  Naming characters is one of my favourite…

  • The biggest jar I have ever seen

    For the story so far click here 🙂 Friday 13 December Today we did more digging in the garden, which is a lot of hard work, but it is fun to be outside for science. For lunch we had peanut butter and yeast extract on toast.  We’d got a giant jar of yeast extract from Daily Bread…

  • Fruitcake, flapjacks and papier-mâché dinosaurs

    Click here for the story so far 🙂 Thursday 5 December Jude made a fruitcake and flapjacks! I don’t know which I like best, because fruitcake is so sweet and juicy but flapjacks are golden and crunchy. While Jude was baking I worked on my dress. Mum helped me to sew on the sewing machine…

  • What Me And Jude Did …… Chapter 3 starts here!

    Click here for the story so far 🙂 Monday 2 December We went to town for a shopping exercise this morning.  Mum gave Jude and me ten pounds each and a shopping list each, and then we had to buy everything on the list for less than ten pounds and get the best value for money.  Mum said we did…

  • Commercial Break: Gluten Free, Organic, Fair Trade, Vegan Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

    We interrupt this story to bring you a commercial for something very yummy: Doves Farm organic, gluten free, fair trade, vegan, very crunchy chocolate chocolate chip cookies!!!!! Find them at your local health food shop, or if you’re lucky they might have them in the Free From section of your supermarket 🙂 Of course there’s…

  • Getting ready for the Christmas Bazaar

    For the story so far click here 🙂 Friday 29 November In history we studied more about Boudicca and her battles with the Romans.  She sounds brilliant.  I like that she had long red hair. This afternoon we made treats for the Christmas bazaar! I made chocolate hazelnuts and fudge, while Jude made chocolate oaty treats and…

  • Steerforth, Traddles and the Warrior Queen

    For the story so far click here 🙂 In history we are studying Boudicca who was a Celtic queen.  Celtic women were equal to Celtic men, so when her husband, the Iceni King, died she became the leader of their people. But the Romans didn’t believe women could own property, so they tried to overthrow her by attacking her, her…

  • Find the White Horse and other stories

    For the story so far click here 🙂 For cookery we made party food! We made a big bakewell tart and twelve miniature ones, sosmix rolls and a big sponge cake.  Mum helped us make pastry for the bakewell tarts and for the sosmix rolls, and I put the jam in the bottom of the bakewell tarts,…

  • Portraits and Gingerbread

    For the story so far click here 🙂 Friday 15 November I am making a dress!  I’ve got a whole lot of blue fabric and a pattern to follow.  The first thing you have to do is cut out all the pieces of paper, pin them onto your fabric and cut around them.  That’s what I did…

  • Not Too Spicy For Dad

    For the story so far click here 🙂 Tuesday 12 November We read to the end of chapter six of Wuthering Heights.  It’s a great story, everyone is very mysterious and dramatic.  I think Heathcliff is a bit scary, although you can’t blame him for getting cross with Mr Lockwood, he’s a very annoying character,…

  • Running out of pink yarn

    For the first chapter of What Me And Jude Did While Everyone Else Was At School click here Chapter Two continues …🙂 I’ve started reading my Harry Potter book, it’s good so far, it’s funny and exciting.  I read some of it out to Mum and Dad, and they like it too.  Jude is reading Emma by Jane…

  • November began like so

    For the first chapter of What Me And Jude Did While Everyone Else Was At School click here 🙂 Chapter Two: Monday 4 November We are doing a project called Operation Independence!  We have to plan and cook our own meals all week!  This morning Mum gave us each £20 and we went to the…

  • Me and Jude’s story continues tomorrow

    Chapter two of What Me and Jude Did While Everyone Else Was At School starts tomorrow! Don’t miss it! 😉 ******************************* vegan, vegetarian, homeschool, education, learning, children, vegan children, veggie kids, children’s story, children’s stories

  • Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies: ORGANIC, FAIR TRADE, VEGAN, GLUTEN-FREE, NO ADDED SUGAR, NO ADDED FAT

    Now, these cookies look very healthy, but they don’t taste it 😉 Of course there is fat and sugar in the chocolate, but the truth is there’s only a couple of specks of chocolate in each cookie, so how can that hurt really?  If you’re being ever so strict you could leave the chocolate out…

  • Good ole Mr Peggotty

    For the story so far click here 🙂 Jude has been working on her caterpillar again, while I read David Copperfield out loud to us all.  David has gone on holiday with Peggotty to Yarmouth.  They go to stay with her brother, Mr Peggotty, who lives in a boat on the beach with two children, Emily, who is around the same…

  • Halloween pumpkins and old artefacts

    For the story so far click here 🙂 ******************** Monday 28 October Mum said that because I haven’t been able to learn to type, I could practise my handwriting instead. I have quite good writing when I am careful, but it gets messy when I rush or get distracted.  After that I read my book.  I’m reading a book…

  • The Robin Hood Pageant

    For the whole chapter click here 🙂 Saturday 26 October Today we went to the Robin Hood Pageant!  We went on the train to Nottingham in the morning, and when we got to the castle we had our picture taken with a statue of Robin Hood. At the pageant there was archery, sword fighting and jousting, just like in…

  • The Big Draw

    For the whole chapter click here 🙂 For maths I had to do brain teasers about square numbers and division.  That was exhausting!  This afternoon we made still life pastel drawings!  Mum set it up for us to draw three teddy bears sitting in a row.  They are Jude’s bears, she won them at the Christmas bazaar by guessing…

  • It’s a shame about Garth

    For the whole chapter click here 🙂 Tuesday 15 October We swam for an hour today, and we returned some books but we didn’t get any more out.  It was breezy outside riding our bikes, we put cotton wool in our ears so we didn’t get ear ache after swimming.  In English I have started reading a book…

  • Small hands

    Continued from yesterday 🙂 : Saturday 12 October I went to music school and learned how to play the theme tune to Rugrats on my keyboard!  My friend Dana is really good, and she showed me the songs she has been playing at home.  Virginia, who is my other friend, is learning to play the clarinet, and when she…

  • Punctuation and sponge-printed Christmas cards

    continued from yesterday 🙂 : We also did English, and I learned about punctuation and spellings. We made Christmas cards this afternoon! We made stamps out of sponges and vegetables and then we dipped them in paint and printed onto card.  We made snowmen and Christmas tree and holly stamps, and we had lots of different coloured card.  It was…

  • Swimming like a frog

    Chapter One of What Me and Jude Did While Everyone Else Was At School continues: Tuesday 8 October I am getting much better at breaststroke, so is Jude.  Breaststroke is swimming like a frog.  Sometimes I start to sink, so I stand up, but I hardly did that at all today.  When we go swimming there…

  • Reading David Copperfield and painting like van Gogh

    Thursday 3 October This morning we read some more David Copperfield  and then had a spelling test.  Chapter Two is called  “I Observe” and David talks about his earliest memories of his mother and Peggotty, their servant.  It is very funny. In the afternoon we made paintings. I painted a scene with sail boats by Matisse, with lots…

  • New story starts today: it’s a wonderful vegan life

    What Me And Jude Did While Everyone Else Was At School Chapter One:  I left school aged 9¼ Tuesday 1 October This morning we cycled to the swimming baths.  We have decided to go swimming once a week, Mum, Jude and me.  The curtains in the changing rooms were blue and yellow, and we needed a pound coin each…

  • Last but not least … the Megan & Flos Diary winner:

    The winner of the Megan & Flos Diary [for any year] is Annette Rochelle Aben!  Congratulations Annette, email me your address or use the Contact Form and I’ll get that off to you as soon as possible 😀 Have a lovely day 😀 ******************************* vegan books, vegan books for children, vegan, vegetarian, free book, free…

  • Luke’s Secret Sersiety Notebook Winners!

    We are delighted to announce there are two winners of Luke Walker’s Privut Notebook and they are … … Karen Gadient and Hit and Run 1964 (aka Gigi) Congratulations guys 😀 thank you for entering 😉 email me at violetsvegnecomics@gmail.com with your addresses and I will get those off to you asap 😀 ……………………………………………… vegan,…

  • The Third and Final Giveaway: The Megan & Flos Diary

    We have one copy of The Megan & Flos Diary: For Any Year to give away so if you want it, just let me know.  The draw is on Friday 🙂  If you win, this is what you’ll get: So there you have it.  If you want it, let me know in the next 48…

  • The Second Giveaway: Luke Walker’s PRIVUT NOTEBOOK

    Luke Walker (animal stick up for-er) is a very resourceful chap, so when he decided he needed a notebook to record all his outlaw activities, and he didn’t have any money to buy one, he just made use of an exercise book Mrs Tebbut gave him because he knew maths was a waste of time.…

  • And the winners are …

    Thank you to everyone who entered the Reflecto Girl’s Lost Notebook giveaway draw.  The two lucky winners are Cheryl and Susan 😀 Congratulations!  You can give me your address privately using the Contact Form on the About page, or email me at violetsvegnecomics@gmail.com And don’t be dismayed if you weren’t a winner this time, there are…

  • Reflecto Girl’s Lost Notebook GIVEAWAY!!!

    Miranda and I are off on holiday this week so we thought we’d leave you with this:  2 copies of Reflecto Girl’s Lost Notebook are up for grabs! 🙂 We have two of these cute little books to give away, (it’s only 14 x 18 cm), and if you want one all you have to do is…

  • A Little Sprite – again

    Last night I saw a little sprite Who told me what to do: “Eat only plant food, It’s much better for you.” **** She fluttered and she floated And she smiled down on me, “Plant food is meant for you, Just try it and you’ll see.” **** I woke up and I sat up And…

  • The Circle of Life

    Make your own compost 🙂 Save all your raw fruit and vegetable peelings, apple cores, tea bags, soapnut shells, etc etc and take them outside to your compost bin (any container will do but make sure it’s got drainage holes in the bottom) Toss your ‘green waste’ in there, (ie raw fruit & veg waste)…

  • Nutritious Still Life

    My friend drew a still life Which she wanted me to see. She told me I’d like it Because it’s good for me. There’s vitamin A, vitamin K, And of course vitamin C. Potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, Lycopene and manganese! 🙂  

  • She said, he said …

    ************************ So she told him, “going vegan would solve your bovine TB problem.  Leave the badgers alone and grow carrots!” “Ooh, and what did he say?” “Nothing yet, he can’t think of an answer.” *********************** vegan, vegan growing, vegan farming, cows, animals, badgers, food, health, vegan cartoon, vegan comic, vegetarian, plant food