• Vegan Food

    Vegan food hot Vegan food cold Vegan food never gets Nine days old. Some like it hot Some like it cold, It’s just too good to leave until It’s nine days old.

  • Vegan Organic Fair-Trade

    Today I ate a bar of chocolate, Vegan organic fair trade. For taste, enjoyment and ethics it Put other bars in the shade. *** My chocolate went down so smoothly with A piping hot cup of tea, Vegan organic and fair trade too, Happy indulgence for me. *** Bananas we eat And oranges sweet, Are…

  • I have a dream …

  • Come on down

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  • I can’t I can’t I can’t!

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  • Let’s eat!

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  • Great planters

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  • Startled

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  • No, really, BEWARE OF THE OGRE!!!

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  • Lurking in the shadows

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  • BEWARE OF THE OGRE!

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  • A Life Less Ordinary

    The first episode of Itchycoo Park is here at last.  This eccentric story is for little ones so after today you’ll be able to find it on the 2 and up page.  Click on the pic to take a look 🙂

  • Dolphins & Snuggling whales

    Originally posted on Earth Communion: Maybe it’s just me and my love for the ocean but wow, this is amazing! ? How lucky are we to share this planet with such amazing beings? And to have something as great as the ocean? 🙂 ~ Patricia

  • TICK TOCK

  • Wait!

    Itchycoo Park New comic for little ones Coming very soon! 😀

  • Make some sugar-free jam – you know you want to!

    If you want jam but not sugar (nor other added sweetener either) then this is the recipe for you! In the inventor’s own words “This recipe for strawberry jam does take some time to make in the absence of sugar or a natural sweetener, but the end result is pure strawberry goodness. It is definitely sweet…

  • Ladybird Ladybird

    Ladybirds are good for the garden as they will eat the insects that hurt your plants.  A ladybird house, as well as planting things they like (like dandelion and fennel), will encourage ladybirds to stay in your garden because it provides them with a safe roosting place during cold and frosty nights in early spring…

  • Storytime

    When you’re sitting quietly, we’ll begin 🙂 Inspired to help some elephants? Why not pop over to The Elephant Sanctuary and see how you can help out?

  • Don’t forget to wave

    Prompted by our new and exciting interest in growing our food we’ve found something garden-related for you to enjoy 🙂 And if, after that, you’re feeling inspired, as we are, to indulge in some forest gardening, take a look at this gem of a blog I found yesterday – Of Plums and Pignuts – it’s choc full…

  • Please look after this bear

    Please look after these bears

  • The Wombles – Rubbish Collectors & Recyclers Extraordinaire!

  • Sunshine and Showers

  • What are you looking at?

  • Forest Gardening

    I have a mini-forest in my back garden.  It represents a pioneer experiment in restoring a tiny segment of the primeval Long Forest, which once covered a wide area of the Shropshire Hills bioregion.  Like the natural forest, it comprises a wide diversity of plants, occupying seven levels or ‘storeys’, but, unlike the natural forest,…

  • 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! 🙂

  • The Car Free City Project

    Originally posted on Earth Communion: The city council of Hamburg (Germany) has plans to divert most of its cars away  from the city’s main thoroughfares in twenty years. The city is planning to lay out new green areas that will bridge existing parks, community gardens, and cemeteries with another. The  aim is to bring together the outer…

  • Grow your own apple trees

    One day we caught the bus into the city and on the way, in the middle of nowhere, the bus stopped to pick someone up.  Right next to the bus stop, on the wide grass verge, was a large apple tree.  It was full of apples.  An apple tree, in the middle of nowhere, by…

  • Walnut Counting Rhyme

    Up and down the walnut tree, The squirrels run, Just for fun, Collecting nuts for free. 1, 2, 3. The 4th they drop for me. *** From branch to walnut branch, The squirrels jump, Without a bump, Collecting nuts for free. 5, 6, 7. The eighth they drop for me. *** Round and round for…

  • Welcome Home

    My friend Ellen shared this video yesterday on her blog Moonside and I just had to reblog it 🙂

  • Puddlesplashers

    Wetsox Puddlesplasher, That is my name. My job is important But it feels like a game. *** We clamber through ditches, And sink in the mud. We jump down from earth mounds And land with a thud. *** Soggybottom Puddlesplasher, My close relation, Is my partner at work, This mucky vocation. *** *** *** But…

  • Five years later …

  • Here we go again

    Take the Plastic Pollution Coalition Pledge today and resolve to refuse disposable plastic!

  • Here We Go Round The Shopping Mall

    All together now: Here we go round the shopping mall, The shopping mall, the shopping mall, Here we go round the shopping mall On a dirty, dusty morning. *** This is the way we’re kicked about, Knocked about, blown about, This is the way we get about On a cold and windy morning. *** This…

  • Three Brown Cows

    (sing to the tune of 3 Blind Mice) Three brown cows.  Three brown cows. See how they run.  See how they run. They all run after the human ilk, Who kidnap their calves and then steal their milk, The cows want their calves back, the humans can’t bilk, The three brown cows. For more nursery…

  • Hickety pickety …

    Hickety pickety my red friends,They go where they want, there is no fence.They wake at dawn, eager to go out,And scratch with their pals, around and about. **** Violet’s Vegan Comics – making funny vegan stories and poems since 2012

  • Baa baa black sheep

    “Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?” “Yes sir, yes sir, but I’ll keep it all. None for your jumper, None for your scarf, And none for the funny socks you wear for a laugh.” **** Save a sheep. Don’t buy wool. * Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny vegan stories and poems since…

  • Old MacDonald had a farm

    Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O And on that farm he had no animals, E-I-E-I-O With a crop field here and a crop field there, Here a crop, there a crop, Everywhere a lot of crops. Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O **** Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O And on that farm he grew…

  • This little piggy …

    This little piggy went to Oak Wood, This little piggy tagged along. This little piggy ate acorns, This little piggy ate leaves. And this little piggy went “wee wee wee” all the way to his mum. All little piggies deserve to be free. Let’s not eat them 😀 **** Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny…

  • Re-knitting UPDATE

    The hoodie is done! See Re-Knitting in Things to make and do

  • Doctor Slough invents a drug

    Support Safer Medicines.  You know it makes sense 😉

  • Captain Janeway is awesome!

    From Star Trek: Voyager, Season 4, episode 7: Scientific Method Pop over here to sign a petition letter to high profile animal experimenters, demanding that they justify their methodologies by taking part in impartial public debates with leading medical experts who oppose animal experiments on scientific grounds. Captain Janeway would approve 🙂

  • Flos says “Plastic bags suck!”

  • The goblin did it!

    THE END … for now 🙂 If you want to read the whole story together, it is now here

  • Working together

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  • A little help

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  • Move!

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  • On record

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  • Just checking

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  • Hazardous

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  • Whispers

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