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THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE

Chapter Two

The Old Woman looked up. "Good evening to you, I'm sure, and it's very good of you to help me," she said, "but where are you?" For she saw nobody but her children, and she was sure that it wasn't one of them.
"Where are you looking?" said the voice again. "I'm not far away from your feet."
When the Old Woman heard that she looked down at the stream, and there half in and half out of it, she saw a big green frog with golden eyes staring at her.
"Now you want a new house I suppose," said the frog.
"I do want it sadly," said the Old Woman, for we have nowhere to live, and I haven't got a penny to pay for the building of it."
"Fiddle-de-dee!" said the frog. "What should I do with money? But I have seen how you work so hard and I don't like to think of you without a home. Besides, it would be sad for your husband to come home and find his house burnt down. Now take off your shoe."
The Old Woman took off one of her shoes, wondering how this would help. But she didn't have to wonder long, he splashed some water over it, and as the water touched it the shoe creaked and squeaked, turned and stretched itself into a house! And a beautiful house it was too.
The Old Woman could hardly believe her eyes, she shut them , blinked and opened them again and the house was still there.
"Well go along indoors," said the frog. "There's the house, but I must give you this warning. You may use the water from the stream to water the garden as much as you like, but, you must never use it for washing, cooking, drinking, scrubbing or anything like that. That water MUST be drawn from the well. Goodbye! I hope you'll be happy in your new house." And before the Old Woman had time to thank him, he had turned round, jumped into the deep water and puff he was gone.
To look at it from the outside it just looked like a larger version of her shoe, but once inside, well as you can see in the picture it was a home, that indeed was big enough for the Old Woman and her twenty three children, and something realy special. by the side of her bed was another shoe, just like the one she had given to the frog. Which was a good job really for the Old Woman only had the one pair.
The Old Woman looked through out the house, and with a contented smile on her face she went outside and took the harness off the donkey and began unloading the cart of her shopping and empty crates.
The children, very upset for what they had done, helped their mother to unload the cart and they did help the following day, and the day after that, and the old woman was pleased that the children had at last began to behave themselves. But sad to say it didn't last long and by the time the next market day arrived it was almost the same as before.
The next market morning the Old Woman was up and gave the children their porridge and went out to harness the donkey, she had packed the cart as usual and Zed had filled the basket with fresh eggs and he put these next to the vegetables to be sold.
Returning to the kitchen, she gathered up all the children and bade them sit down and listen: "Now my dears I must be off to the market. Be good while I am away. Take the goats and geese to the pasture, and there are a lot of weeds in the carrot patch, I want them removing before they choke the young carrots. And as it is a wash day, I want all the washing put in the wash tub to soak. BUT remember you must draw the water from the well. DON'T take any from the stream. Oh yes and there's some bread

The Poor Princess had no "Soft Water" to wash her face in, Poor thing.

SOFT WATER.

By Elizabeth Fleming.

The good King's daughter
Had no soft water,
Had no soft water to wash her face,
And forth went pages
To look for water in every place.

The crawled up mountains,
They crept down tunnels,
They felt the waterfalls everywhere;
They spied on houses
With water-barrels,
But no soft water was hidden there.

The Princess wept
When they came to tell her
Of fruitless searchings and labours vain.
"How can I wash
If I've no soft water?
And what shall I do if it doesn't rain?"

The youngest page-boy
Awake quite early,
And went out walking at break of day,
And high on a hill
He found a dewpond
A little round dewpond tucked away.

He went on his knees
And peeped in the dewpond;
Mist lay over it white as milk;
He dipped his hands
And the ice-cold water
Ran through his fingers soft as silk!

He filled his goblet
And sought the Princess;
The poor little Princess wept with joy,
And told the King,
And the King said , "Splendid!"
And made him the Prince's whipping-boy.

Hm,m, I'm not sure becoming the
"Prince's Whipping boy!"
Don't you think the young Prince should have the whipping himself ?

******The Circus*****by Eleanor Farjeon.****

* * * * * * * * THE CIRCUS BY ELEANOR FARJEON * * * * * * * *

The Circus By Eleanor Farjeon The brass band blares, The flashing flares, The sawdust smells, Showmen ring bells, And O! right into the circus ring Comes such a lovely, lovely thing, A milk white pony with flying tress, And a beautiful lady, A beautiful lady in a pink dress! The red and white clown For joy tumbles down. Like a pink rose Round she goes On her tiptoes With the pony under - And then, O wonder! The pony his milk white tresses droops And the beautiful lady The beautiful lady, Flies like a bird through the paper hoops! The red and white clown for joy falls dead, on his head, Then he waggles his feet and stands And the little boys on the twopenny seats Scream with laughter and suck their sweets.HTTP://DIDDILYDEEDOTSDREAMLAND.ZOOMSHARE.COM

IN THE LAND OF GILYKEHA, LIVED MISTI A YOUNG ELFIN PRINCESS.

This is a story of a young Elfin Princess
who was very lonely. Would she ever meet a young Prince and get married? Why not read on and find out.

ELVES AND ICICLES

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ELVES AND ICICLES

In the land of Gily-keha not many miles away, there lived an Elfin Woodland Princess. Her name was Misti and her home was the Silvan Palace; high in the Silver mountains where she lived with her parents King Silvan and Queen Sereni.The Princess was a happy young elf but also a very lonely one for she didn’t have any brothers or sisters to play with.
It wasn’t so bad when she was young for she would spend hours playing with all the creatures that lived in and around the palace, but as she had grown older she found herself wishing for a friend; someone to share her secrets with and just have fun with I guess.What made it worse was this winter had been long and cold, it felt like it would never end,
already the snow had been falling for more weeks than normal. Misti sighed, "Whenwould the cold blanket lift and make way for the spring flowers, in a few months I'll be thirteen, what then?" she reached down and stroked her pet cat Petals
"I should be getting engaged soon, where on earth are Mummy and Daddy going to find me a husband, Petals?"
The cat purred softly under her warm hand and began to wash her face.
"He would have to be a prince; and of course come from a good Elfin family and where was he to come from?
Misti didn't really know any other elfin families in the mountains.
She did meet the village elves when the summer was upon them and she had been going to school, but none of these were princes.
"Maybe I shall never marry Petals, you and I will just have each other forever" Misti smiled at the cat and kissed it's little pink nose.
Yes it was beginning to look like she was doomed to live alone forever.
Misti walked over to the bedroom window and sat down on the ledge, she was immediately aware that there was something different in the woods. Was she imagining it or were there huge icicles hanging from the branches of some of the trees, they were glistening in the pale sunlight that had just appeared from behind the clouds.
She jumped off the ledge without another thought, ran out of the room, down the bannisters and in a flash she was all ready to go out into the snow.
She grabbed her mitts and scarf off the hat stand and was out the front door, through the gates and running down towards the woods.

A new take on the Alphabet, A litle quiz involved for the under 8's I think

Can you match some of the pictures with the Alphabet or Names

AN ALPHABET OF NAMES.

• A  is for Alan, who Angled in Ayr.
• B is for Bobby, who had Buns for a Bear.
• C is for Clara, who Came with her Chum.
• D is for Donald, who Danced to a Drum.
• E is for Eva, who Encountered an Eel.
• F is for Francis, who Fashioned a Frill.
• G is for George, who had Gone to the Glen.
• H is for Harry who Had a red Hat.
• I is for Irene who Intends to use Ink.
• J is for Joseph, who Jumped a high Jink.
• K is for Kenneth, who Kept a large Kite.
• L is for Lawrence, who Laughed much to Late.
• M is for Mervyn who Marched to the Mine.
• N is for Norman, he caught Newts all of Nine.
• O is for Ossie, whom an Owl did Observe.
• P is for Peggy, with a Pot of Preserve.http://diddilydeedotsdreamland.com/

Having taken off the cbox from the Castle and Dreamland, I replaced it with some little words.

In summer I am very glad
We children are so small,
For we can see a thousand things
That men can't see at all.

They don't know much about the moss
And all the stones they pass,
They never lie and play among
The forests in the grass.

They walk about a long way off;
And, when we're at the sea,
Let father stoop as best he can
He can't find things like me.

But when the snow is on the ground,
And all the puddles freeze,
I wish that I was very tall,
High up above the trees.

Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema

I was asked today to explain who I am, so here you are. This is Diddilydeedot, Seligor and Dodie

There you go , my little shopping advice for the new year, my daughter bought me Pirates of the Caribbian three for Christmas, she got it reduced to £7.00 but if she had asked I could have ordered it myself for £4.36 and no postage or petrol.
This is our wedding last year. Since being stuck at home more now the weather is so bad and me, the wheelchairs and my darling husband Peter find it much easier to shop on line.
I like Tesco for my shopping and they deliver all my stuff for the week, it cost us £4 for delivery but we live five miles from the nearest shops so it is brilliant.
I also do all my banking , BT, Electric, all my bills in fact, even as small as £2.50 for the Orangutang in Borneo.
What a saving, I would recommend all pensioners to start shopping online. Why not start your own web site like I did, one where you can put pictures of all the grand kids, holidays, etc. and even watch video's on line of the kids like I did with my daughter in Spain a couple of years ago, wonderful.
Like all things you have to be careful you don't go overboard and sign up for everything you see. That is an easy mistake you can make, from youth to Ancients like me I think.
Have you ever thought of writing a story, then use the web, I use Zoomshare.com for my websites, there are very many about and sometimes things go wrong.. ... ask poor Sare who has helped me out of bother dozens of times.
It is such a thrill. If anyone had told me I would have four websites, a very large Spaces Live with Microsoft as well, I'd have said don't be daft. But here I am working on what was to become Dreamland for the little ones.
Oh my what fun I have looking for pictures to accompany my stories and then to find a wonderful web site that has many wonderful things on it. I get so excited that I have been known to stay up till 4 in the morning.Beautiful Abbey
Thank goodness for My Darling Peter Husband again. Gosh How I love him!
I must admit to playing Poker Texas Hold-em on line also, this is my recreation.
Friends I guess I have hundreds, all over the world. from Tasmania to Transylvania, all of them wonderful. It is such a pleasure, though I wish more people would sign my guest books, Frown you get many hits but not many messages, telling you how wonderful you are .Smile. I had a lovely one the day before yesterday though, here in Dreamland it was really lovely. Made my Christmas, that and seeing two of my 19 grand children.
I do believe I have established a small dynasty of my own, along with my three sisters and all our marriages! There are pictures of most of the family either scattered on the web pages or in the photo albums on my spaces and in the four sites., not counting Facebook and other things all the kids have opened. Penny with Scooby doo
Right that me finished for tonight, I am going into my bed now. Snuggle down with one of my two dogs, Abbey, Penny sleeps upstairs with Peter.
The cat, Tuppence, she sleeps where the heat is most warm and tonight it is very cold indeed in my Welsh Mountain Village of Pontybodkyn.
Do pop in if ever your passing on your way to the West Coast through Corwen, I am normally at home.
Take care, from me to everyone and remember you can wish all and everyone a happy, prosperous and good New Year, but you are the only one that can make it happen.
Look after your health, especially in this dreadfully cold weather.
Respect your friends and family as you would like them to respect you. Tuppence
And LOVE, that little four letter word.
Try each day to share you love with someone, to help them and guide them along the road of life which oft these times need not only your love' but your understanding as well. Life for the young these days, seems much more complicated than my life when I was young.
Try to have time for them, listen to them, I have found that very acceptable with all my youngsters.
Don't knock their ideas back continually or they will stop having their own ideas and take on others, and their ideas just mightn't be as good as their own.
Gosh I am supposed to be in bed.
My love and respect to all of the human race, and May the God you love and respect look after you and keep you safe from harm throughout the rest of your life.
part of my back garden
Hugs and XXX's Seligor, Diddilydeedot and Dodie, one for all and all are one.

"No parent should have to bury their Children" as spoken by Theoden King, from The Two Towers, in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.