Sherman & Geynes, Expert Sleuths
Episode 2:
In the Library with the Elastic Band
coming very soon 😀
For the story so far, click here
Sherman & Geynes, Expert Sleuths
Episode 2:
In the Library with the Elastic Band
coming very soon 😀
For the story so far, click here
Pop and crackle,
Fizz and bubble,
The witch stirs her cauldron
On the fire in her hovel.
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She shrieks at the night
It will happen alright,
The life-giving force
Of her potion’s in sight.
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It’s got onions and greens,
Carrots and beans,
There’s garlic and lentils,
She’s hungry and keen
To gobble it up,
From bowl and from cup,
The magic of plants
She’ll slurp and she’ll sup.
I’m so grateful to Eva Xanthopoulos for introducing me to vegan music – I had no idea there was so much out there! So now we just have to have a music page 🙂 Click on the link in the sidebar on the right to see a whole bunch of happy vegan music videos, and/or watch this space every day this week where we will post one of them, starting with the hilarious parody of Psy’s hit “Gangnam Style” by Henya Perez and friends.
Here is Vegan Style:
Sleuthing starts here. 😀
The compost bin was hungry
And it wanted something new.
It’d reduced old fruit and lettuce leaves
To gloopy, slimy goo.
“Enough with all the green waste,
For now I’ve had enough.
I need something dry and brown
Like paper and card and stuff!”
So strips of card were fed to it
And more and more and more,
‘Til finally an old paperback
Was swallowed whole and raw.
Music courtesy of TelevisionTunes.Com
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The Rebel Gang and the Number Ciphers available here to read in silence and at your own pace 😉
Yesterday we took a train ride to the seaside!
Flying high above the houses! 😀
And here we are in Brighton Station. Please mind the gap between the train and the platform. 😀
I want a new hat,
It’s as simple as that!
But I’ve got no money to buy one.
I know what I’ll do,
I’ve got old hats – two,
I’ll unravel to make a new one.
Rose shared a pattern,
A cool beret pattern,
Which I’ll use to make my new hat.
The purple from my sloppy
And the cream from my saggy
Hats will go great together for that!
“Do as you’re told
So that as you grow old-
-er, you’ll learn how to be a success.”
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I said
“What’s that to me
If there’s no bumble bee
And the world’s all polluted wiv mess?”
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She said
“Be quiet and sit still
Or you certainly will
Be punished and I’ll send home a letter!”
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“Don’t answer back,
Good manners you lack,
You should know that your teacher knows better.”
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I said
“That’s not always true,
I mean, wasn’t it you
Who told me people were s’posed to eat meat?”
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“Now that can’t be right,
We don’t have sharp enuf bite,
To kill a animal for us to eat.”
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“So if it’s alright wiv you,
I think I’ll just have to,
Answer back when I think of a question.”
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“Like Tuvok I won’t
Nod my head when I don’t
Agree wiv a nillogical lesson!”
Be like Luke – think for yourself and never stop asking questions 🙂
Please please please let me take my ease,
Let me ride on your back for a while.
My legs are short and not as strong as yours,
I’ve been walking for more than a mile.
I’ll just climb on and I won’t take long
Try to stand still here for a minute.
I really appreciate you helping me out
And I promise not to fidget.
Thank you thank you thank you Mum
This ride is good and comfy.
I can see from your reflection though,
That you enjoy it as much as me!
“Why are you a vegan?”
Said Andrew Jones to me.
“Does your mum make you be one?
Do you have to drink herbal tea?”
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“Don’t you wish you could eat this?”
He showed me the meat on his pizza.
“Have you ever even tasted fish?
You’d probably like it Jamila.”
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“You can’t even drink milk can you?
Your mum must be ever so strict!
You can have some of mine if you want to,
Drink from the side I haven’t licked.”
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“I feel sorry for you,” Andrew said
“If you’re not allowed egg and chips.
Does she make you eat raw seaweed?
And swallow your apple pips?”
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I waited for him to stop talking,
He had a lot to get off his chest.
I began to think he didn’t want answering,
But then he gave his voice a rest.
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“I’m vegan because I want to be,”
I told him. He looked unconvinced.
“Eating animal flesh is revolting to me.
Eggs are from chickens’ bottoms.” He winced.
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“That milk was pumped out of inside a cow,
I don’t know how you can drink it.
You don’t need milk, you’re a big boy now.
Look at me, I’m healthy without it!”
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“I don’t know why you think I’m weird being vegan
When my food is seeds, veg, fruits and nuts.
Don’t you think it’s weirder to eat dead bodies,
Stuff from animals’ innards, and things that come out of their butts?”
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See the illustrated picture book version of this here
🙂
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See it on YouTube



