WInter Tales

Winter tales - Been getting up at daft O Clock and going into schools. The mornings are dark and freezing - sheets of ice are nailed to the street with stars - so i have to scrape the windscreen of my car. The frost does make cool pattern on the glass, swirls and stuff like a modern painting.
-Then i get in the car. I can see my breath, its cold so i put the blowers on. After a bit they warm the car but are loud like a cow snoring, so i can't really hear the radio. I hear bits of songs like the chorus and thats it. La la la la. Then all day i have a bit of a song in my head. And the sound of snoring cows.
- You drive past people shivering at bus stops. People should look bigger in the cold cos of all the big coats but i think the cold makes people shrink. Like Umpalumpers
-When i drive i wear a hat, a scarf and gloves cos the steering wheel is freezing. I look like old car drivers used to look when cars were first invented and didn't have windows or a roof. I'd really like one of those clown style HONK horns like the old cars used to have.
- Then i tend to get lost a lot on my travels. I use people as my sat nat and always ask the way. Sometime they have no idea, sometimes they know and really help and sometimes they get a fancy phone out of their pockets with maps on it. They look at me with sad faces cos i haven't got one, like i am a person from the past. I kind of like that. La la la la.

Ten Quid

A coupla blogaroos ago i banged on about titles for poems and one was Ten Quid, its a kinda lesson on how not to spend ten quid, but then again, maaybe its what ten quids are really for....you decide......

Ten Quid

I've got a little moneybox
I keep it on the shelf
I think I'm gonna empty it
and go and treat myself

So I counted all the money out
and that is what I did
I went down the cornershop
and spent ten quid

I've always been a spender me
never been a saver
I bought a bag of Monster Munch
Pickled Onion Flavour

Then I bought a Snickers Bar
then I bought another
I will keep one just for me
and the give one to my brother

Then I bought some M and Ms
and some chewing gum
Then I bought a chocolate flake
especially for my mum

I really wanted doughnuts
but the shops had none
so i blew the rest on sweets and stuff
and my ten quid had gone......

Colder Than Ice - cream

With the winter comes the dark cold frosty mornings. Oh yeah. Because i get up at daft o'clock when i am visiting schools everything in the winter is pitch black. Take this morning. I was in a school in Manchester which is only about 30 odd miles away from my house. Well, this morning, cos it was freezorama it took me two hours to do a one hour trip!!!! It took me about twenty minuto to de-ice the car. I have a little winter kit that i take with me -- woolly hat, gloves and scarf, big ugly leather jacket, fancy cup that keeps a cuppa coffee warm, although this morgan freeman it didnae work cos it was cold. Five degrees below freezing. think about that. This morning it was colder than ice-cream. I got a bit lost cos i always do. Maybe i should invest in a sat nav, but i like maps and the thrill of finding a place!! makes me feel like i have accomplished a great and noble deed. The misery of getting lost is eclipsed by the thrill of the find.

More chilly starts coming up this week!! Keep wrapped up and stay toasty.

The Ten Quid Grown Up Table

I have had these three titles for poems flying around in my head for ages. The three are one called Ten Quid, another called Wobbly Table and the last one is Groan Ups. I like titles but sometimes three come at once and you don't know which one to start. Lets have a look... The Ten Quid one i like because i haven't seen a poem called that and it just sounds dead normal, like people say it all the time. I think its important for so called normal things to turned into poems, so i'll get to work on that. But hang on a mo, i like the Wobbly Table idea as well, because it sounds like it could be funny. Like you could start this one by saying...These table is really wonky/ like a three legged donkey...and say where you end up. But the Groan Ups title is great cos it has a pun in the title. a PUN is a a play on words and the play on words word in the title is groan, cos you don't say groan ups you say grown ups, so i'll give that a shot as well. I can't wait to get started on these poems but first i have to put a new shelf up in the Imagination Station, which is the room where i work. Hang on..Imagination Station, sounds cool, could easily be a poem, infact come to think of it so could New Shelf......

150 not out.

This is my 150th blog entry. I feel like i should have a big cake and loads of spam and beetroot butties!! I sometimes wonder who reads this stuff but if anyone does please let me know.
Happy 150th!!!

Evil Archie is watching.....

I am trying to get better at blogging and i want to get more stuff on here, pictures of daft stuff that i see on my travels, and videos, that kind of thing. My mate Evil Archie has told me to get upto date with all the new gizmos and to improve my techo abilities so i will try my best!!

Books and Stuff

Got this book from the library. I saw it on the telly and thought it was brilliant but the book is even better. Its called Planet Word and its all about language and words . Its a big 400 page hardback so i better go and get stuck into it!! This year i want to read more , i read a lot anyway but i want to do it more and so i'm going to read all the books that i have got and not buy anymore....

Check it out yourself!!!