Luke Walker‘s back!
Well, he will be very soon 😀
Watch this space!
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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:
There’s somewhere to write your information;
there’s somewhere to make a note of web addresses that you don’t want to forget;
there’s stuff about our solar system
there’s stuff about Flos’s planet’s solar system, as well as a brief history of Summum and the Summum Esse;
And there’s two days to a page for you to write a brief journal or record appointments.
Plus there’s an illustration and quote from the Megan & Flos comics at the end of every month.
So there you have it. If you want it, let me know in the next 48 hours 😀
NB don’t be put off by the darkness of the photos, the pages are bright and cream 🙂
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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 going to be more notebook giveaways this week, but different ones 😉
Have a lovely day, and don’t get too hot 😀
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 tell me that you want to be entered into the draw 😀 But first of all, let me tell you a little bit about this notebook.
The thing is, it’s Renée’s, but she lost it. She left it on the bus when she was on her way to meet George in episode 5 and she was really worried about it because she’d written about all her Reflecto Girl adventures so far in it.
Luckily George reminded her that as long as her real name wasn’t in it (which it wasn’t, she’d made sure of that) it didn’t matter if anyone else learnt that Reflecto Girl was out there.
Renée was still a bit miffed that she’d lost the recipes she’d written in her notebook,
and the important websites she’d made a note of,
plus it was a really nice little book which was a Christmas present from a friend. But she couldn’t go to the bus depot lost property and claim it because that would reveal her identity to anyone who had read it.
So, there is this half-filled notebook (revealing the girl behind Reflecto Girl – her real life in her own words, an engrossing read 😉 ) with lots of empty space for someone else to write their journal, and/or shopping lists, and/or to do lists, and favourite websites, and favourite recipes, and fill with doodles and sketches of their own.
If you want it, let me know – two lucky winners will be pulled out of the hat next week 😀
See you then 😀
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Disappointment
Chapter 7 continues (For the first 6 chapters click here 🙂 )
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Twenty two minutes later he suffered a bitter disappointment. In truth Dad hadn’t been surprised to learn that the blue bike Luke had set his heart on a year ago wasn’t there anymore, but he’d assumed Luke would happily choose a different one from the same shop. But Luke wouldn’t even look at a different one. He wanted the blue one. It was perfect. He could describe every detail of it and why it was perfect in every detail. For this reason the bike shop man knew which make and model he was talking about and looked it up on his computer. He said he could order another one, especially for Luke. It would take two weeks to get there. Luke smiled with relief.
“Yes please,” he said.
He’d waited a whole year, what was another two weeks?
By the time they got back home he was feeling much better and cheerfully returned his money to the safety of his money box. Just two weeks – then he’d have it for sure. It was ordered. The order was in his name. Just two weeks more.
Luke sat in his room and drew a grid of fourteen squares. In each square he wrote a day of the week. At the end of every day he put a big red cross through one of the squares. When there were fourteen red crosses it would be time to go and get his bike. He could think of nothing else. He could talk of nothing else. To tell the truth, even his devoted friend Joe was getting a little tired of it.
It was the thirteenth day, Friday afternoon. The boys were sitting at either end of their desk, doing their sums. At least they were supposed to be doing their sums. In actual fact Joe was drawing dinosaurs and Luke was daydreaming about how much faster than Butler’s bike his new bike would be.
“He won’t even be able to keep up with me,” he chuckled, “I’ll be so fast that when I pass ‘im he won’t even know it was me. I’ll jus’ be a blur to ‘im!”
“Mm,” Joe nodded.
He’d stopped listening half an hour earlier but it was easier to nod along than admit that he’d lost interest. Joe was a ‘path of least resistance’ sort of boy. However, by the end of the afternoon, when they were walking home from school, he couldn’t help expressing his wish to change the subject. Luke was more than a little affronted.
“Oh I’m sorry, ‘ave I bin borin’ you?” he said in mock apology, “I wun’t want to bore you with somethin’ as borin’ ‘n’ unint’restin’ as a new bike! I’m sorry to bother you with the unint’restin’ information that it took me a whole year to save up for it! I’m sorry I got so excited ’bout somethin’ so borin’!”
An awkward silence followed during which the friends walked at opposite edges of the country lane. They had been given permission to walk home without adult accompaniment as long as they stayed together. They therefore kept pace with each other whilst keeping as far apart as the width of the narrow road allowed. Joe looked at his shoes. Luke looked straight ahead.
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‘Luke Walker and the saved up money’ starts now!
For the first 6 chapters click here 🙂
Chapter 7:
Luke Walker and the saved up money
Luke didn’t complain about helping Dad on the allotment because it was part of their agreement. After he’d commandeered the vegetable patch for the damsons, Dad had made a deal with him. He said the damsons could stay there if Luke agreed to help him every week on a new allotment.
The allotment cost Dad £80 a year, which seemed a heck of a lot of money to Luke, but Dad said it was a good deal because it gave him plenty of room to grow things – much more than he’d had in the damson patch. It would be a lot of work so Luke had to help. Luke thought that was fair, and earning the damsons’ keep made him feel like a bread-winner. So everyone was happy.
On this particular Saturday he was in an especially good mood. He had finally saved enough money to buy his bike. The pocket money he had been given that very morning brought his total up to £100. £100! He had been saving for ever. Actually, for a year. But it felt like forever. And now he had enough. He could buy the bike; the blue one; the blue one he’d seen in the bike shop window; the blue one that was perfect for him; the blue one that was meant to be his. Dad said they could go and get it when they’d done the morning’s digging and weeding. They were going that afternoon.
After lunch Luke rushed up to his bedroom and emptied his money box. Mum had changed his coins for notes every time he saved £10 so now he held ten crisp, or rather soft and tatty, £10 notes in his hands. Never before had he held so much money! He tucked it carefully into his wallet, the Batman one with the keyring attached, tucked his wallet into his front right trouser pocket, and padlocked the keyring to his belt loop. He wasn’t taking any chances. Then he waited in the car for Dad.
“Where have you been?” Luke asked him when he finally arrived.
“You know where I’ve been Luke. You saw me. You passed me, eating my lunch, on your way out to sit in the car.”
He turned the key and the engine coughed to life. Luke could hardly contain his excitement.
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Cakes worth waiting for
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Until next time 😉
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Django’s
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Will there be cake? Find out tomorrow 😉
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Who ya gonna call?
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Join the guys at Django’s on Monday 🙂
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Business cards and everything
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… continues tomorrow 🙂
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This is Soren
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… continues tomorrow 🙂
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A brilliant breakthrough
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continues tomorrow 🙂
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Suspicious
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…. continues tomorrow 🙂
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Sounds like swamps and elves
Continues Monday 🙂
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The last place she remembers having it
…. the search continues tomorrow 🙂
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Let’s go!
…. continues tomorrow 🙂
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Sherman & Geynes Episode 3 STARTS NOW!
For the uninitiated, Sherman and Geynes: Vegan Sleuths starts here 🙂
And now begins chapter 3:
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New Book: The Rebel Gang and the Number Ciphers
The Rebel Gang and the Number Ciphers (which you can find on the 8 years and up page) is now available in paperback!
You could be holding the Top Secret documents in your hands ….
…. including all the evidence and ciphertexts found by the investigators.
You have access to suspect profiles,
and the evidence against them. You can peruse the conclusions drawn from this evidence by M and decide whether you agree with her (or him?).
But most of all, you could have fun reading it 😀
The Rebel Gang and the Number Ciphers, now available from Amazon 😉
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What Joe found out:
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to be continued ….
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So, here’s what we’ve learned:
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Regardless, Venus met the rest of the gang at 3pm as planned:
to be continued ….
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Back on terra firma
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As Venus climbed out of the tank her first thought was to share what she’d found with Adi and Jean and tell them her plan. Her subsequent thoughts were not so pleasant.
Ten minutes later:
to be continued ……
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There it is!
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Finally, behind the model shipwreck, concealed from onlookers, she found it.
to be continued ………..
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Venus
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to be continued ……..
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Jean
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She named everyone she met and, as per Venus’s plan, noted the names and locations of everyone from this part of the world.
to be continued ……..
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Adi
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Dirty Secrets
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to be continued … 😀
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87 minutes later …
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So, 87 minutes later …
to be continued ….
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Sonic Screwdriver
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to be continued …. 🙂
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There’s a thought!
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At the end of their shift …
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And Venus was having an equally unhappy time of it:
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“Ok, well,” Carolyn smiled, “while we’re up here I want to show you the top of the tank where the divers, and the fish, go in.”
Venus could see and hear William’s distress. She could only imagine the misery he went through every time he was transported from Scotland to the south coast and back again. But she couldn’t help him. Carolyn was soon ushering them on.
When the fish container was pulled out of the lift, Carolyn, Katie and Venus descended to the viewing gallery:
to be continued ….
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Meanwhile, Adi was being shown around a different area …..
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The Husbandry Volunteers
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to be continued …
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Protect and Retrieve
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Stay above suspicion
Gasp! 😮
Story concludes tomorrow but if you’ve missed any of it you’d better catch up now!
Here’s the whole thing 🙂
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“All of this benefits the ones in charge”
😮 Continues tomorrow 🙂
Or read to the end now 🙂
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Searching for clues
Continues next week 🙂
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Reckless Decision?
Ooh, it’s getting thinky now 😮
Come back tomorrow to read the next bit – or read it all now! 😉
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“The lies are everywhere”
Ooh, clever, clever.
Continues tomorrow 😉
And here’s the whole story 😀
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Mystery and codes and stuff
The Rebel Gang and the Number Ciphers starts here tomorrow!
Don’t miss this code-cracking tale of mystery and intrigue! 😉
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Furious
“That’s to tell you what the shoes are made of. That’s the symbol for man made material,” she explained, pointing to one of the shapes on the label, “and that’s the symbol for leather. So the soles of these shoes – the bit you walk on – are made of synthetic, man made material, and the uppers – the top part – are made of leather.”
She smiled and told everyone to go and sit down. She did like it when her pupils asked her about things unconnected with lessons. It showed they had active minds.
Luke hung back. He was furious. Not only had he been humiliated by Simon Butler, but his own mother had lied to him. He took off his other shoe and threw them both into the swing bin in the girls’ toilets. Then he pulled out loads and loads of paper towels, screwed them up, soaked them under the tap and tossed them into the bin on top of the shoes. He put his blue plimsolls back on his feet where they belonged and, somewhat calmer now, went to class.
When Mum met him from school at half past three he smiled and was friendly, pleased to be finished school for the day. She was happy too. The afternoon weather had really brightened up and lifted her spirits. They waited for Jared and then walked home. About half way, Mrs Walker noticed that Luke wasn’t wearing his new shoes.
“Where are your new shoes Luke?” she asked, apprehensively.
Luke looked into her questioning eyes and said,
“At lunch time I was jus’ sittin’ quietly on the grass pickin’ wild flowers and makin’ daisy chains for Mrs Tebbut, when suddenly a flock of big black crows flew at me an’ knocked me over! Then they pecked at me shoes ’til they’d got ’em off me feet and then they grabbed ’em with their claws and carried ’em off into the trees. I ‘spect they wanted to make nests in ’em.”
Mum stared at him.
“What has happened to your expensive new shoes Luke? I want the truth!”
“Truth is very important isn’t it?” Luke said thoughtfully, “It’s bad to tell lies. People who tell lies can’t ever be trusted. They’re like the boy who cried wolf. No one’ll ever believe a word they say again.”
Mum’s lips tightened, she looked straight ahead and they continued their walk in silence. When they were nearly home she spoke.
“Luke, your feet have grown, you have to have new shoes.”
“Ok, I’ll have plimsolls. Blue ones please.”
“Plimsolls are no good when it rains.”
“I’ll get wellies for when it rains. Blue would be good.”
Mum looked at him.
“Ok,” she said.
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Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er, the paperback containing the first eight chapters of Luke’s adventures, is available from Amazon in the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada
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Wouldn’t have had to do this with plimsolls!
So Luke had new shoes. Mum said it would be a good idea to wear them around the house for an hour on the first day, then two hours the next, gradually increasing the time until they were comfortable enough to wear all day.
“Wouldn’t have had to do this with plimsolls,” thought Luke as he paced up and down his bedroom.
A week later he wore them to school. He had to admit it was good timing because it had started to rain and it wasn’t pleasant being stuck in wet socks all day. His new shoes kept his feet dry. He would say that for them. And he got a few compliments. Joe said he liked them, and so did Eddie and Susan. Miss Shaw said they were very smart, which undermined his confidence in them a little, but at least Mrs Tebbut hadn’t been impressed. At lunch time Luke changed into his plimsolls for football on the playground – hard, shiny shoes just weren’t good for running in. When the bell went he returned to the cloakroom to change back into his shiny shoes and found Simon Butler looking at them. Luke scowled.
“Wouldn’t have thought you’d wear them ,” said Simon smugly, “that makes you a hypocrite.”
Luke had no idea what a hypocrite was but knew that if Simon Butler was calling him one, it wasn’t something nice. He assumed he was making some derogatory remark about the shoes and decided he was glad that Butler didn’t like them. He didn’t like the stupid stuff Butler wore either.
“If I’m a hypocrite so are you – that horrible jumper makes you the biggest hypocrite in the world for wearing it!” said Luke as he walked away, very satisfied with his comeback.
Simon laughed.
“You don’t know what hypocrite means do you?”
Luke blushed. Simon enlightened him.
“It means someone who doesn’t practice what they preach. You say you won’t eat animals because you don’t want them killed but you’re wearing cow skin on your feet!”
“I am not!” Luke shouted, “these shoes are made of sprayed canvas, stupid! Don’t ya think I made sure o’ that before I let me mum buy ’em? Don’t ya think I’d make sure o’ that?”
Butler smiled his insufferable smile.
“Those are made of leather, it says so on the label. Leather is cow skin!”
Luke trembled with indignation. He knew Butler was lying because he’d seen the label inside his shoe. The word ‘leather’ was not on there. They had an audience now, the whole class was gathering round, eager to see who would get the last word. Luke would not let it be Butler. He took off one of his shoes, looked inside it and then proudly held it up for everyone to see.
“I do not kill animals! I do not pay for animals to be killed! I do not eat animals and I do not wear animal skin!” he said with gravity.
“What is going on out here?” Mrs Tebbut entered the cloakroom in search of her missing class.
“Mrs Tebbut,” said Simon politely, “we were wondering what this means,” he pointed to the label inside Luke’s shoe.
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Story concludes tomorrow, but you can read to the end here now if you don’t want to wait 🙂
Luke Walker and the New Shoes – begins today!
Luke Walker and the new shoes
Luke was having a stressful day.
“It’s not fair!” he thought, “I don’t want new shoes; I don’t need new shoes.”
He looked down at his left plimsoll for proof and was satisfied that he could hardly see his big toe.
“In fact,” he said out loud, “I’m sure if someone who dint know it was there looked at my feet, they wun’t notice it at all.”
Mum disagreed. She quite unreasonably insisted that a big toe sticking through a hole in one’s shoe was an unmistakable sign that it was time to get new ones.
It was 4.17pm. Luke and Mum were in the fifth and final shoe shop their home town had to offer.
“This is it Luke,” Mum said testily, “this is the last one. We will be buying shoes from this shop.”
She picked out four different styles and put them down in front of him.
“Choose one.”
Luke looked at them with disgust.
“ Brown? You want me to wear brown shoes? I am not wearin’ brown shoes!”
Mum removed the two brown ones and, through gritted teeth said of the remaining two,
“Choose one of these or I will choose for you!”
If he had to have new shoes when he didn’t even need new shoes he would have chosen blue ones. He would have chosen blue plimsolls. They were comfortable. They were good for running in. And blue happened to be his favourite colour. But Mum said plimsolls were not proper shoes. She said they were not suitable for wearing in wet weather. She said they were not smart enough for school. She said he had to have those shiny sort of hard shoes that give you blisters for the first two weeks. Luke had put up strong resistance all day long but now it looked like he would have to compromise. It came down to two different black shiny shoes and one of them had tassels.
It was clear that he wasn’t going to get the plimsolls so the best he could do was make sure he didn’t get the tassels. He chose the lace-ups. Mum exhaled.
“Finally,” she said.
After Luke had tried them on and walked up and down on the carpet in them, and Mum had squeezed the toe ends of them to see how much growing room there was, the shop lady boxed them up. But just as Mum was about to pay, Luke remembered something. He’d heard a horrible rumour at school which he hoped wasn’t true but he had to be sure. He’d heard Katia tell Susan that shoes are made of cow skin! It was too shocking to contemplate and Luke had assumed Katia, who was always melodramatic, was making it up to get attention. But could she have been telling the truth?
“What are they made of?” Luke asked the shop lady.
“These are made from quality …..”
“Canvas!” Mum interrupted, “they’re made of the same material your plimsolls are made of but they’re sprayed with a special substance that makes them hard and shiny.”
Luke was surprised at his Mum for rudely interrupting someone who was already talking. The times she’d told him off for doing that. And the shop lady was obviously surprised at her too as she looked at her quite strangely. But in a way Luke was glad to discover his Mum didn’t always do everything right. It made her a bit more human.
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Everybody’s gone
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Three months later …
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The Wicked Witch’s Plan To Get Rid Of Everyone begins here
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Once upon a time, high on a mountain peak, surrounded by fog night and day, lived a wicked wicked witch. She was tall and thin and had long bony fingers. Her fingernails were green and she had a hard heart from which her purple blood ran cold.
She awoke when the crow cawed and slowly creaked to her feet. She cooked her breakfast of four slices of freshly butchered piglet and two sheep intestine tubes filled with finely minced calf flesh and fried tomatoes and toast. She consumed it all with relish and washed it down with a tall glass of baby growth fluid squeezed from a cow.
After breakfast the witch wiped her greasy mouth with the back of her hand and put the dishes in the sink. It was time to go to work.
For many hundreds of years the witch had been working on her plan to turn the world into a dry, desolate, poisonous place, somewhere only she and the cockroaches could thrive. That may seem like a long time to you and me but to the witch, who had lived in her castle for over ten thousand years, it was nothing.
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“What shall I give to Grandpa?”
“What shall I give to Grandpa?” Cedro asked Kauri.
“It’s up to you,” said Kauri, unhelpfully, “think of something Grandpa likes.”
“What do you think he would like from me?” Cedro asked Myrtle.
“That’s not for me to say,” said Myrtle, unhelpfully, “what do you think?”
“He likes knitting,” Cedro thought, “maybe he’d like some yarn, or a new pattern. But those things cost money.”
Cedro didn’t have any money.
Cedro thought again.
“He likes gardening, maybe he’d like some new seeds.”
But seeds cost money.
“He likes playing with his train set, maybe he’d like a new engine.”
But new engines cost money.
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That boy!
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Dad burst into Nan’s house trembling, half with anger, half with fear.
“That boy!” he said.
“What?” said Mum and Nan with alarm.
“They’ve gone! They’re not there! No sign of them on the putting green and the Keeper says they haven’t returned the gear. I’ve been all over the park – the toilets, the cafe, the tennis courts, the gardens. They’re not in the park!”
“Call the police!” said Nan.
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“We need a policeman!” said Luke, triumphantly pointing to the police car at the end of the street.
Joe’s face flooded with relief and the two of them rushed towards it. The windows were quite steamed up so it was difficult to see inside. Luke banged on the window.
“Hello!”
A loud bark made them jump back. Luke laughed.
“Oh, that made me jump! But I weren’t scared. I’m not scared of dogs.”
He banged on the driver’s door window again.
“Hello! Police! We need the police!”
The window was open a bit at the top so Luke peeped in the gap.
“The policeman’s not in here,” he said, “just the dog.”
The dog didn’t bark again, she just panted.
“She’s really hot,” said Luke, concerned.
Joe remembered a sticker he’d seen on the door of the Co-op. The boys looked at each other and spoke at the same time.
“Dogs die in hot cars!”
It was an estate car and the dog was in the boot. She was lying down now, panting really fast, and had white foam around her mouth. The boys ran around the car trying all the doors and shouting for help. The doors were locked and nobody came. Both front windows were wound down a little so they held on to the top of the glass and tried to force them down further but they wouldn’t budge. This frantic activity did at least set off the alarm but still no one came. Then Luke remembered.
“The golf clubs!”
He grabbed the putters from the ground and handed one to Joe.
“Hit the glass as hard as you can!” he told him.
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Wait for the Green Man
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Things were drawing to a close on the bowling green. Grandad’s team had not won but it had been a pleasant match and everyone was ready for tea. Nan and Grandad’s house bordered the park, just a three minute walk from the green, so Nan went ahead to put the kettle on while Grandad said cheerio to his team.
“I’ll go and round up the boys,” Dad volunteered.
Mum caught up with Nan.
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Luke pressed the button and waited for the green man. When the traffic stopped and the green man lit up, they crossed the main road.
“See,” said Luke, “safe assouses!”
They both looked up and down for the ball with no more success than they’d had so far. Luke saw a side street which sloped downwards and guessed it had probably rolled down there. It hadn’t.
“I think we have to go back,” said Joe.
“I know,” agreed Luke reluctantly.
They walked up the side street until they reached the main road.
“The cinema!” said Joe with surprise, “I wonder if they’ve got the new Batman film.”
Luke would also have liked to check out the new Batman but first he wondered how come they hadn’t noticed the cinema on their way out. Had they passed it and not seen it? Or was this a different road? Luke looked at the other buildings in the street: a pizza restaurant, a chip shop, a key-cutting shop. None of it looked familiar. Well this road must be parallel to the other road. Luke felt sure if they took the next left they’d be back on track. They took the next left. Then the next right. Then they went straight ahead for a long time. They were completely lost.
“What’re we gonna do?” Joe was really worried.
Luke wasn’t entirely calm himself but he pretended he was.
“Let’s sit down for a minute to think,” he said.
It was so hot and they were really thirsty. They sat down on a bench and thought. Mum and Dad had mobile phones but Luke didn’t know the numbers. And anyway, there were no phone boxes.
“Just think!” Luke told himself, “I’m an outlaw. I can get us out of this.”
He looked up and down the length of the street and at one end of it he saw something that would solve everything.
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A dependable friend
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He was such a dependable friend. The two of them searched for almost ten minutes without any luck. Joe said the Park Keeper would probably understand if they apologised and explained what had happened but Luke wasn’t ready to give up yet.
“This pavement goes downhill,” he said.
“No it don’t, it’s flat,” Joe disagreed.
“Give me your ball,” said Luke.
He placed it gently on the pavement and it started to roll.
“See! It’s slightly downhill. If we follow your ball it will lead us to mine.”
“Ok,” said Joe, and they followed it.
It went past the chip shop and the laundrette; past the pub and the bingo hall. Joe looked back over his shoulder. He couldn’t see the park gate anymore and was a bit worried. Mrs Walker had told them to
1. stay together and
2. stay in the park.
He couldn’t do both so, after very little deliberation, he decided that ‘stay together’ was the more important rule. He hurried to catch up with Luke. The ball continued to trickle on but was slowing down because the slope levelled out just before it reached the main road. Joe’s ball came to a stop against a bulge in the asphalt. He picked it up and put it in his pocket.
“So where’s yours?”
“It must be here somewhere,” said Luke looking around.
His logic was flawless. The ball must have rolled in this direction. But it was nowhere to be seen.
“Well at least we tried,” said Joe, “I think we should prob’ly be gettin’ back to the park.”
“Just one more minute,” said Luke, “I know it’s here. It must be.” Suddenly he realised “someone prob’ly accident’ly kicked it. It’s prob’ly gone across the road!”
“Oh no!” said Joe as he looked at the busy traffic, “we’re not goin’ to cross the road!”
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