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Seligor's Castle, where there is so much fun for all of our children in the land. : Blogs 
TILLY AND TOBY
AND
THE FANCY DRESS PARTY

    
Tilly and Toby were very excited.

Tilly's young nephew was having fancy
dress party for his birthday and a clown to entertain them.

"We will have to go and get our costumes before the weekend."
Tilly said. "What do you want to be?"

 "I'm not sure, I have never been to a fancy dress party before!"
replied Toby.
"Then we shall go on the bus to town and look what they have in the shop."

They thought it was best to leave Candy and Sweetie at home in Tilly's Teapot.

Then they went to catch the bus.
           Can you see them waiting at the bus stop?

Here comes the bus, they were just in time.
                Can you see Tilly and Toby on the bus?
Can you tell me what colour the bus is?

                                         Yes you were right. It is red.

It was only a short trip into the town and Tilly and Toby were soon getting off the bus and making their way to
 the special shop that sells clothes for dressing up in.

Soon they were inside the shop and looking around all the good things there were to put on.

It didn't take them long to find what they were looking for..

Can you see what they are dressed in?
Why Toby is a Cowboy and Tilly she is a cowgirl with a lasso and a mask.
I wonder if people will know who she is?

They had their clothes wrapped up and then they went to the cafe for a cup of tea and some chips and sausage before going back home.

After they had finished their lunch they caught the bus back home and were greeted by Candy and Sweetie their puppy dogs.
The dogs had been so good that Tilly and Toby took them for a walk as a reward.




I
will have the party pictures finished by tomorrow, I shall scan them
and they will be ready to go into a new story very soon I hope...

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog
JAIMIE'S JUNGLE-BOX

Crazy Creatures Alphabet

Alligators walk on stilts,
Bear and Bats both drink milk.
Chimps and Cotton Fairies dance,
Dogs and Cats jump and prance.
Elephants flying in the sky,
flicking clouds as they pass by.
Finches, Flies, Duck and Drake,
have to learn to bake a cake.
Goose, Gander, Hippo's and Hare,
 all just stand about and stare
Ivor the Engine just dropped by,
so he could see the Kestrels fly.
Jungle Jaguars, the Lion that roars,
Dormouse sleeping how he snores.
Monkeys swing, the Nerka swims,
many fishes all with fins.
The Orangutang began to sing
while Penguins sang "Gimmi that thing."
Quail and Hens lay some eggs,
Rabbits standing on two legs.
Squirrels trying to find their nuts,

Tortoise sleeping in garden huts.
Unicorn hiding from you and  me,
Voles so secretive you can't see.
Walrus and Seals, Dolphins, Whales,
Wasp and Bees, Slugs and Snails.
Xema birds that dive like gulls,
Yak's so strong just like the bulls.
Zebra striped, Zati a monkey,
she wears a bonnet and looks quite funky.

Diddily Dee Dot, 2008

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

DONNA'S KITCHEN

 BANANA ICE LOLLIES

These are special banana ice lollies, that the children can make all by themselves....
(well maybe with a little supervision from an oldie.)
I found these pics on google, they might help you decide what to choose.

You will need

1.           4 banana's (nice firm ones)
2.          A medium bar of good chocolate, or two or three.
                (depending on what colour you choose to use.)
3.         10 flat lolly-pop sticks, (a couple extra incase of accidents.)
      
Coating
a.           dessicated coconut.
b.           chocolate vermicelli.
c.            coloured sugar strands.
These are just idea's maybe you can come up with     different ones of your own.

METHOD
       

1.            Cut the bananas in two across the middle.
2.           Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the Microwave (1 minute at a time)
               Don't mix the chocolate, though you could use two colours on one banana.
3.           Pop a lolly stick down the centre of the half banana.
4.           Pop some of your coconut, etc. into a paper bag and after dipping the banana into                    your choice of chocolate, dip the whole into the paper bag and cover the chocolate                    befor it sets.
5.           Pop the coated banana's on a tray  and place in the freezer until frozen, about two                    hours should do it.

DONNA'S KITCHEN

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

 PENNY PRUDENCE

The Rainbow Bridge

The
Rainbow Bridge is a place which is often referred to by people whose pets have
died.
It is a small story that was written some time
between 1980 and 1992, which has gained wide popularity amongst animal
lovers who have lost a pet, especially in America.

Although
no major religion specifically refers to such a place for pets, the
belief shows similarities with the Bifröst Bridge of Norse Mythology.
The Bifrost Bridge (Also known as "The Rainbow Bridge") is the bridge
that connects Asgard to Earth. It is how gods and other Asgardian
creatures travel between the two worlds.
There are many other Myths and Legends about the Bifrost Bridge, but they bear no real comparison with the Childrens Rainbow Bridge for their Pets to travel to the other side.

This is the story I like best

Far away above the trees, where only the rainbow goes, there is a beautiful green meadow. But this is no ordinary meadow, this is a special place where all the creatures of the earth might cross to get to the Rainbow Bridge that leads them to heaven.

It is such a wonderful place that no matter how old ar ill it may have been this side of the meadow, as it crosses the meadow and then crosses the bridge, all is made whole again. Here is the place that the pet can wait until their owner is ready to come and join them once more.

When that day comes, the pet somehow knows that they are coming and they run back over the bridge and wait patiently until there owner arrives and they are reunited, never to be parted again.

I like to think that if the owner was a horrible person and mistreated the animal that , that owner wouldn't be allowed to cross the Bright Green Meadow, for I am sure there is no place over the Rainbow Bridge for the cruel and the unkind.

This Google blogger and I don't work well together. Where has the tools gone for editing colours

diddilydeedotsdreamworld
 PENNY PRUDENCE

The Rainbow Bridge

The
Rainbow Bridge is a place which is often referred to by people whose pets have
died.
It is a small story that was written some time
between 1980 and 1992, which has gained wide popularity amongst animal
lovers who have lost a pet, especially in America.

Although
no major religion specifically refers to such a place for pets, the
belief shows similarities with the Bifröst Bridge of Norse Mythology.
The Bifrost Bridge (Also known as "The Rainbow Bridge") is the bridge
that connects Asgard to Earth. It is how gods and other Asgardian
creatures travel between the two worlds.
There are many other Myths and Legends about the Bifrost Bridge, but they bear no real comparison with the Childrens Rainbow Bridge for their Pets to travel to the other side.

This is the story I like best

Far away above the trees, where only the rainbow goes, there is a beautiful green meadow. But this is no ordinary meadow, this is a special place where all the creatures of the earth might cross to get to the Rainbow Bridge that leads them to heaven.

It is such a wonderful place that no matter how old ar ill it may have been this side of the meadow, as it crosses the meadow and then crosses the bridge, all is made whole again. Here is the place that the pet can wait until their owner is ready to come and join them once more.

When that day comes, the pet somehow knows that they are coming and they run back over the bridge and wait patiently until there owner arrives and they are reunited, never to be parted again.

I like to think that if the owner was a horrible person and mistreated the animal that , that owner wouldn't be allowed to cross the Bright Green Meadow, for I am sure there is no place over the Rainbow Bridge for the cruel and the unkind.

From Here to There and Back again with Diddilydeedot : Blog

From Here to There and Back again with Diddilydeedot : BlogIN TAIWAN

Follow the winding road and turn off by the ancient temple. Past the pigs and geese, past the manic dog, lips drawn back and snarling, in his iron cage, if you're lucky.
Then past the womb-shaped burial plots of the two cemeteries where families come to remember and feast their dead, burning fat sticks of smoky incense to carry their prayers to heaven. Leaving offerings of wine, rice-cakes and fruit, which the dogs will come to consume in the evening or the next day; leaving lavish hell-money for elder brothers, sons, fathers, daughters and grandmothers to spend in the afterlife.
On and past the wet emerald rice-paddies, bordered by thickets of young and old bamboo that creaks and snaps in the afternoon breeze; over the crumbling old stone bridge in its patchwork of yellow lichen and moss, beneath which the silver stream gurgles and splashes over miniature forests and kingdoms, set in clear sunlit pools where dragon flies hover in a gauzy, jewel-winged ballet.
Lizards bask immobile in the heat, past a lone, sprawling farmhouse, where an old Chinaman sits playing loud pi pa music on a record player filling the valley with sound. Past  the red and black lacquered wayside Taoist shrine with its friendly little stove and blocks of green and black tea for travellers to refresh themselves, and up, up, up the narrow winding track that skirts the edge of the hills, where tiered conifers lift redolent trunks and sheaves of needles to the sky; past secluded sylvan glades full of golden sunlight and silence, where white and turquoise butterflies cluster over tiny yellow and pink flowers, their billowy soft wings lavishly painted with suns, eyes, and moons that blink and wink and glitter in the scented air.
The quiet crowns of rounded hills carpeted in pine needles, guarded by the sentinel trees that softly commune with each other or gently sway in deep arboreal meditation, nodding beneath the noon day sun, or wide awake beneath frosty stars.
On, finally, past the clear blue tarn of the mountain lake; extended and dammed to make a reservoir, where wooden statues of Gods and Immortals, guardians of the popular lake-side tea-house, are reflected upside down in the mirrors of the untroubled water; brightly painted in ceremonial colours of crimson, viridian green, cobalt blue, yellow and gold.

Coming down again, I disturb a long fat snake sunning itself on the road, its dusky scaled body as thick as my arm, it coils lazily into the undergrowth and I continue my descent.

Baguio City. Michael Willowdown©     <

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

 SONG'S ETERNITY

What is song's eternity?
  Come and see.
Can it noise and bustle be?
  Come and see.
Praises sung or praises said
  Can it be?
Wait awhile and these are dead --

  Sigh, sigh;
Be they high or lowly bred  They die.

What is song's eternity?
Come and see.
Melodies of earth and sky,

Here they be.
Song once sung to Adam's ears
Can it be?
Ballads of six thousand years
Thrive, thrive;
Songs awaken with the spheres
Alive.

Mighty songs that miss decay,

What are they?
Crowds and cities pass away
Like a day.
Books are out and books are read;

What are they?
Years will lay them with the dead --
Sigh, sigh;
Trifles unto nothing wed,
They die.

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

 
 I Saw a Peacock, with a Fiery Tail

                                                                             
I Saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail,

I saw a Blazing Comet, drop down hail,

I saw a Cloud, with Ivy circled round,

I saw a sturdy Oak, creep on the ground,

I saw a Pismire, swallow up a Whale,

I saw a raging Sea, brim full of Ale,

I saw a Venice Glass, Sixteen foot deep,

I saw a well, full of mens tears that weep,

I saw their eyes, all in a flame of fire,

I saw a House, as big as the Moon and higher,

I saw the Sun, even in the midst of night,

I saw the man, that saw this wondrous sight.


Read this carefully mummy. Nobody knows who wrote it but it has been dated at about the 1660's
It is a kind of puzzle within a poem, a lesson on the importance of
punctuation. As you can see, it only has one fullstop.


But if you
punctuate it with a full stop, or a comma in the middle of each line, it
makes perfect sense. "I saw a peacock."    "With a fiery tail I saw a
comet." 
But the pictures that become visible are amazing.