Stuck on some of the questions? You can find all the information needed to complete this puzzle on the Safer Medicines site: go to https://safermedicines.org/resources/ and click Frequently Asked Questions 🙂
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Find the funny-sounding wild flowers in the word search puzzle above. If you click on the picture you can save it and solve it on your computer in Paint. Or you might like to download the pdf below, print it and solve it with a pencil 😀
Click over to the Wildlife Trust website if you want to find out more about these amazing wild flowers.
“The Fly Orchid flowers resemble flies. They release a scent which mimics a female wasp’s pheromones, luring in males who attempt to mate with them. The male wasps get a dusting of pollen, which they carry on to the next flower, hopefully pollinating the plant.”
"I'm hungry!" said the herring gull "Be gone!" came a reply, "The council says my food's not yours So don't you even try!" "I'm hungry," said the herring gull, Again, once more, with feeling, "I'm forced to beg and snatch and grab, YOU stole MY food with trawling."
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It’s that time again and this month’s lucky winner of the VVC Club prize draw is Abi Cloud!
Congratulations Abi!
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Abi has chosen The Two Little Pigs and a cow 🙂 Good choice Abi! The beautiful hardback book – featuring the stories ‘The Two Little Pigs’ AND ‘Where are you going Deidra?’ – has been ordered and will be with you just as soon as the lovely people at BookVault can print and deliver it (in a week or two) 😀
This is amazing – diver rescues baby dolphin trapped in the rocks, only to discover that the baby was trying to get help for her mum who was caught in a fishing net.
OUT NOW! Fun and exciting vegan children’s comics – 17 of them! – all under one cover! Megan & Flos episodes 1 to 7; Venus Aqueous episodes 1 to 6; and The English Family Anderson episodes 1 to 4. And also included are the fact files that were in the original comics, plus detailed story sources at the back!
Of course these stories will always be free to read here but if you’d rather hold an actual book in your hands, you can get the Vegan Rascals Collection from all good bookshops, but you’ll get a better deal at ours 😀
ps I know what you’re thinking – why hasn’t Reflecto Girl been included in this awesome comic-book collection? I’ll tell you tomorrow 😉
Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s stories since 2012
How cool is this! 😀 I can’t wait to try this out – a toy car that you build yourself with a working engine that’s powered by compressed air! No poisonous batteries!
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As the manufacturer points out (above) –
“Gasoline is currently the fuel of choice, but petroleum used to make it is becoming increasingly difficult to find and is contributing to environmental issues and worldwide problems. Automobile manufacturers know this and are spending tremendous amounts of money to develop alternative fuel for the future. Let us introduce you to another alternative fuel and eco-friendly vehicle – Air Power Engine Car. Air is available 24/7, does not run out and it’s free. By golly, we might have something here!”
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Miranda was lucky to stumble across this in a charity shop, and if you google it you can find it for sale on various websites but unfortunately the company who makes them, The Source Wholesale, seems to have removed it from their Construct & Create range. I hope they’ll bring it back!
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating fun vegan stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
It’s that time again and this month’s lucky winner of the VVC Club prize draw is Angela Jane Glizzard!
Congratulations Angela – a copy of the fantastic Vegan Rascals Collection bumper comic book – 277 pages of exciting Megan & Flos, The English Family Anderson and Venus Aqueous stories (good choice by the way) – is on its way to you! 😀
First – the answers to yesterday’s science fiction puzzle as promised:
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Now, this next one’s a bit trickier. See if you can recognise these ocean-dwellers from their descriptions. Click on the pics and save them so that you can do the puzzle in Paint on your pc, or print out the puzzle and do it with a pencil – one way or another, enjoy this watery puzzle 😀
If you’ve read the Megan & Flos stories you will know how much Megan loved science fiction even before it became fact for her 😀 so here’s a few questions about her favourite science fiction series – easy, if you know which one it is 😀
You can save the puzzle picture and open it in Paint so that you can fill it in on your PC, or you can print it and do it the old fashioned way – with a pencil 🙂
Find all the yummy chocolates in the word search – you can save the image and complete the puzzle on your PC by opening it in Paint, or you can print it and do it the old fashioned way, with a pencil 😀
Find these tree lovers in the wordsearch! Just like yesterday you can save the puzzle jpg and open it in Paint to complete it on your pc, or print it and solve it with pencil 🙂
What does the General Election mean for Crustacean Compassion?
On Wednesday May 22, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surprised everyone by announcing that a General Election will be held on Thursday 04 July. In doing so, he fired the starting pistol on a six-week campaign where politicians will criss-cross the country vying for your votes.
Animal welfare always ranks high in the list of priorities for voters, and Crustacean Compassion will be working hard to ensure that the voice of decapods is heard throughout. These special animals were recognised as sentient in UK law over two years ago, but since then progress on increasing their legal protections and improving their treatment in the food industry has stalled.
What happens next? Crustacean Compassion has already written to the political party leaders to seek their support and next week will be contacting all the candidates directly to ask them to support these pledges.
But they need your help. Watch out for updates on their social media channels for details on how you can help us reach as many candidates as possible and make sure that decapods have the strongest possible voice in the new parliament.
They’ll also be sharing more information about how you can get involved with this campaign in your local area.
Their new campaign to ban live sales They’ve launched this new petition to show the new government that decent people in the UK support a full ban on the live decapods being sold as food. Every day in the UK animals like crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfish are sold alive to the untrained public to be killed and cooked at home. This causes EXTREME pain and suffering to these fragile, sentient animals.
There are certain things that we’ve always been able to get without plastic. Yes, it takes a bit more time, a bit more effort, but you find the time and you make the effort because you care. I’m talking bread in a paper bag from the bakery, and loose fruit and veg from the market. But there were some things that have made it very difficult to live completely plastic-free. Not anymore 😀
Okay, this is it, quick and easy – where to get all the plastic-free everyday stuff you need:
Cleaning supplies
Mack! Keep it Mack with vegan, plastic-free sachets (biopods) of soluble detergents to which you add water. Everything you need to clean toilets, sinks, floors, hard surfaces, drains and to get rid of limescale. No need to buy any more plastic bottles BUT save the ones you’ve already got for refilling with these lifesavers! Also these products smell great and they’re easy on your wallet.
Washing up POWDER
Add a heaped teaspoon of this citrus-smelling powder to hot running water et voila! Your dishes will shine in no time without hurting the planet or any of its inhabitants. Available from Planet Detox 🙂
Plastic-Free Margarine
Actually, it’s not margarine, it’s vegan butter! Mergulo Plant-Based Butter that comes in a cardboard box! This is a life-changer! For a long time now I’ve had to simply go without margarine, substituting peanut butter or simply straight on with jam. Which was ok. But not as good as a slice of hot toast with delicious melting fatty goodness!
Made with coconut oil and cashews, this is absolutely scrummy and we found it at Holland & Barrett! Google a supplier near you.
But if you can’t find any Mergulo near you, all is not lost because Flora have come out with not one but two vegan butters: salted and unsalted. Find these at your local supermarket and here’s a tip – the unsalted one is just as delicious as the salted so don’t be afraid to give your heart a break 😀 They’re wrapped in plastic-free biodegradable grease-proof paper.
So get yourself an old-fashioned butter dish – these aren’t spreadable from the fridge 🙂
Dental Hygiene
Simple: Go to Georganics 🙂 a one-stop online store for all your dental needs. Or – if you’d rather shop locally, it’s not too difficult nowadays to get toothpaste tablets in glass jars, and bamboo toothbrushes at supermarkets, health food shops and chemists. But my favourite tooth-tabs (and the cheapest I’ve found actually) are Denttabs which you can get from anythingbutplastic 😀
Rice? Pasta? No problem!
You can get pasta in paper bags from the Northern Pasta Co. – they’ll tell you where you can buy it online and in actual shops.
And you can buy rice in paper bags from Marks & Spencer’s!
I’m sure you can find other manufacturers and retailers but these are just two examples I found easily.
And last but absolutely not least – Chocolate!
You can’t go wrong with Prodigy, Plamil and Vego for vegan, organic, fair trade delicious chocolate that’s NOT WRAPPED IN PLASTIC. Available in health food shops, some supermarkets and online. Click on the pics! 😀
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins Episode 5 concludes today. Click here for the whole story 😀
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Well thank goodness for that. You can relax now that you know Felicity, Fabian, Finnian and Fernando Flipflop are safe. Have a cup of tea and a biscuit 😀
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins Episode 5 continues from yesterday. Click here for the story so far 😀
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Phew! That was close. Things are looking more promising for Felicity Flipflop’s family now but their ordeal’s not over yet. The story continues tomorrow – don’t miss it! 😀
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins Episode 5 continues from yesterday. (Click here for their first four wacky adventures) 😀
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Oops! Come back on Monday to see how the trouser-less Flat-Capped Menace copes with that unexpected turn of events. And until then, have a great weekend! 😀
Continuing from yesterday: Marvellous Mildred Episode 5: The Fearful Flight of the Family of Felicity Flipflop. But if you want to catch up with the stories so far, check out the first four episodes of these wacky cartoon adventures 😀
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Look out Felicity! They’re right above you! Come back tomorrow to see what happens next 😉
Yes! Marvellous Mildred and the girls are back! And you know that means the dastardly Flat-Capped Menace is not far away and up to no good. Episode 5 starts today but if you want to catch up with the stories so far, check out the first four episodes of these wacky cartoon adventures 😀
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Watch where you go Felicity, you never know who might be round the corner. Come back tomorrow to see what happens next 😉
Reflecto #9 concludes (you can read the whole story here) 😀
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I hope you enjoyed the ninth episode of Reflecto Girl 🙂 if you did, check out episodes 1 to 8! And don’t forget to FOLLOW – see the button in the sidebar – so that you don’t miss new vegan-friendly stories when they arrive 😀
Next up – new Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins!
When we left Reflecto Girl on Friday she had just reflected the slaughterhouse office manager with the Dounto (click here for the story so far). Now the story continues:
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Gasp! Come back tomorrow to see what happens when Reflecto Girl steps inside the house of horrors 😮
How to sew a doll by hand – YouTube by Root and Stitch. She also has videos of how to make rag dolls with a sewing machine. I chose to cut the legs off the pattern and sew them on separately.
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Following the pattern I downloaded from Root and Stitch, I chose the colours of fabric that I needed for Mildred’s face, top and dungarees, and cut them out to fit the pattern generously.
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And sewed them together.
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Fold it in half (right sides together) and sew, leaving an open end to add stuffing.
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Turn it right side out. 😀
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Then stuff with kapok.
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Sew on the legs. 😀
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Make arms and sew them on.
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Add neck ties for the Girl Scout Twins, and stitch their belts on.
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Next it’s time to make hair!
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I cut out a generous piece of fabric for the hair on the back of Mildred’s head, and pinned it to make it tidy. And cut out two half-circles for the hair on Mildred’s face.
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I pinned it into place and sewed it on.
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Then I cut out pieces of fabric for Mildred’s bunches, sewed them, turned them right side out, stuffed them with kapok and sewed them on.
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For Claudia’s hair, I used yarn. I stitched it on down her centre parting, all the way down the back of her head, and then added more stitches either side of her head, to hold her hair in position.
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Next I sewed their faces on.
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Next I made a hat for Claudia.
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And there you have it! Lovely vegan rag dolls.
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Please let us know if you make yourself some lovely vegan superhero rag dolls, we’d love to see them.
Congratulations Daniel Simmons who won the October club members’ prize draw! He chose the fabulous Beans on Toast #1 as his prize – good choice Dan!
November VVC Club prize draw
And now, we can show you this month’s draw – filmed live only moments ago:
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Congratulations Thomas!
Email us at vegans-are-awesome @violetsvegancomics.com to let us know your real name and address, and which book you’d like us to send you. You can browse them all here 😀
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Would you like to win a vegan children’s book? It’s as free and easy as joining the club! Click here to find out more 😀 Go on – you know you want to 😉
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The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark. Adults typically reach 7.9 m (26 ft) in length. They are usually greyish-brown, with mottled skin, with the inside of the mouth being white in colour. Click here to find out more about them.
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