My Reaction To The New Captain Scarlet Box Set

JAMIE: Ladies and gentlemen, I present: New Captain Scarlet. In a packed new box set, with newly designed postcards of Captain Scarlet wearing only his underwear!

CHRIS: Oh my this is revolutionary! Marvellous!

ME: OH MY GOD! They got a new Gerry Anderson series re-release. I MUST! HUG!

DESTINY ANGEL!

NSync For Dancing Clothes

To be continued...

HER MAJESTY'S MOLEY!

For more information on The Old Tailor's secret message on accepting body image, please visit:

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-information-and-support/get-help-for-myself/self-help-and-self-care/body-image/

Amazon Echo's Wake Up Theme

Mr Brave's Favourite Song

Angelina Ballerina's Favourite Song

Tracy Beaker's Favourite Song

And Now, A Grizzly Interlude...

To be continued...

The Old Tailor Of Pelting Moore!

For 'Moore' information on helping your child with the secret message obtained in Dolores' story, visit this link at:

https://kidsworkchicago.com/tips-for-teaching-your-child-volume-control/

Farmer Pickles Says...

How Far In Grizzlyville?: Jamie's School Dinners

I have started reading Grizzly Tales: Gruesome Grown Ups, and the first story, Jamie's School Dinners, was gross and absolutely horrifying at the same time. It made me want to have actual chicken nuggets, no matter how the story portrayed children who only have one thing for meals every day.

When I got up to the bit where Jamie had chicken drumsticks, I was immediately hooked, because the main villain, Ambrosine, was stuffing him up as plump as who everyone calls him now, a 'little goose'. To make matters worse, Jamie's parents' health and concern for their now-heavyweight son deteriorate with every day that goes on, and as Jamie eats countless weights of food, he develops yellow zits on his face, and grows mushrooms all around his neck! Yeuck!

But, I am glad Amazon Kindle had annotations, so I could deliver my own thoughts on the story. Speaking of which, there is a part where the narrator tells us about a spoof of Doctor Who called Doctor Which. And what did I toggle in the annotations box?

"Ooh, burn!"

Typical sci-fi fan on a detox. Anyway, Ambrosine lures the now-obese Jamie towards her island, where she cooks him with horrid, nasty things usually taken out of healthy food for kids, mainly the e-numbers you'd find in Pink Wafers, until Jamie explodes.

The story ends on a dark note as Jamie's parents forget everything about their son, because he is served to another schoolboy in another part of the country during lunchtime, implying that he is about to meet the same fate as our morbidly-weight-gaining hero.

Now, I am not like Jamie, if you can ask me how I keep myself healthy and clean. I have a morning and nightly skincare routine, I put cream on my itchy and stingy spots which frequently appear on my body, and I shower regularly, not to mention I eat a variety of things for every meal, not just chicken nuggets and cheeseburgers.

So please, parents, if you see a child with an eating disorder, don't tell him if his parents offered him their brains. Instead, ask him about his hygiene, habits and diet. You might be able to offer some advice to his parents...but do they have the brains to take it all in?

To be continued...

SILENCE IS GOLDEN!

Cleansing The Soul

My mind, body and soul have been officially cleansed, meaning I get more ideas easier. How? Let me tell you how.

My support worker took me into town yesterday, and it was tons and tons of fun. First of all, we went to the chemist. I wanted to pet a fluffy brownish-orange dog that was wandering about (how do they allow animals in there?!), but my S.W. ushered me along to get something with that £3 voucher I got from Aquafresh for complaining about how bad their kids' and Paw Patrol toothpaste smelled.

Afterward, we went to the charity shop to see if my crazy support worker was there, but...sigh. He wasn't. So, I posed sassily in front of a pile of old books and games like a model for Vogue - you know, I should work there one day, as long as I'm not exploited.

Then, came the most life changing moment in the world - my S.W. took me to the local cathedral. My eyes widened and my jaw nearly oozed out of my mouth, because for a cathedral it was huge. Massive. ENORMOUS!

My S.W. showed me everything that's huge and enormous, from the flower decorations on the high up, ornate ceilings, to the mega heavy bibles and the gigantic steel organ to the kids' section and best of all...the memory tree. My favourite part.

Now, you're all going to cry reading this, so I suggest you bring smooth, clean hankies to dab your eyes with as you read. I wrote a message to not just David Graham, the original voice of Parker, who died just two years ago when I got into Gerry Anderson, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds and many others, but also...my Grandma.

No, I didn't write on it that she was a moody old bag, I told her this:

"I will keep smiling for you."

And I will still do it, no matter what. Thank you, Grandma.

Then, I started praying as my S.W. took pictures of me wishing Grandma luck during her time over the Rainbow Bridge. Feeling sad? There, there, don't cry, guys, it's alright. I promise you the next few bits of the entry will make you smile, I promise.

Anyway, after this emotional turn of events, my S.W. and I went to the bookshop - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS! It must be full of cobwebs now. I looked around all the packed shelves for puzzle, picture and wordsearch books, but every shelf was lined with a book featuring Bluey and her 'crazeh' family. Bluey here, Bluey there, Bluey Bluey everywhere!

But then, I found the ticket: a Sticker Dolly Dressing book - not about Halloween, not about Easter, but about a magical unicorn kingdom. Amazing! And as an extra special treat, my S.W. let me order some Paddington Bear bookmarks and a chocolate ice cream from the freezer near the front door. It tasted absolutely gourmet!

Once we ordered our food from ASDA, we had our picnic near the haunted ferry, where not only did I gorge down all my sausage rolls like Jamie in the first story in Grizzly Tales: Gruesome Grown Ups, but I also tried something new. Well, they were old, but, I don't mean old as in 'gone off'.

I meant fresh! Apple slices and cheese cubes! However, I wasn't fond of purple grapes, I was only fond of green grapes, so, I threw every single one of my fruits out to feed to the starving birds.

On closing, I just like to say that this day cleansed my spiritual beliefs not just for one day, but forever. Now I'm going to put my beliefs in everything I believe in, but for other rights.

Fists in the air if you believe me!

"Hail,

HAIL,

OUR CREATOR!!!"

Growing Up Starts NOW?!

From what I observed watching three of my favourite classic shows, I found something all of the characters in these presentations are diagnosed with that makes them independent, yet they still act like toddlers. It's called 'Parentification', or if you may, 'Adultification'.

The following three examples will show you signs of these disorders in its main characters. Give us the countdown maestro!

1.Maisy. Ah ah ah, I don't mean Maisy as in the current Sky Kids series, I meant the original 1999 classic animated by King Rollo Films, yer dafty! In this series, adultification is portrayed rather positively, as the main character, a small white mouse preschooler named Maisy, is only 4, but she and all her friends, who are kids, can do everything independently. They can cook, clean and do the housework, and yet they are independent enough to go out on their own and interact with wild animals, let alone pilot vehicles they're too young to pilot yet. The narrator, Neil Morrisey, doesn't seem to mind, and encourages Maisy and her friends through every job they take up and every vehicle they pilot. He is an encouraging parent who encourages his 'children' - Maisy, Charley, Tallulah, Eddie and Cyril - to follow their dreams since adultification has tightened its grip on them.

2.Boohbah. The goofy, rainbow-coloured, gumdrop-shaped dance performer/fitness instructor group suffer from three things. Not just adultification, which makes them encouraging instructors which allow toddlers (and sometimes, parents) to join in with their dance moves and their exercise of the day, but catatonics, which means they can't blink their eyes and can only move their eye pupils around, and deaf-mute, meaning they along with the Story People can't speak, and can only need a gentle, guiding narrator and a young child's offscreen, haunting, ethereal cries of "BOOHBAH!" to help them understand what they're helping the viewers go through.

Again, these three disorders are portrayed rather positively, as these five young rascals and their arrested development-diagnosed grown up human friends show us the meaning of exercise, inclusion and solving problems in a safe, colourful and caring environment without (ahem, I'm even talking to you, BlameItOnJorge) making both kids and their parents nervous.

3.Grizzly Tales. I'm talking about one of the episodes in particular, The Child Snatcher. Unlike the last two entries, which portray adultification and other disorders quite positively, this episode of this creepy animation series shows us the negatively dangerous side.

It tells the shocking, heart-pounding story of Amos, who wants his daughter Albert to become a genius, so he takes away all her needs like her games and toys and picture books and makes it into a classroom, where every day brings a new STOP sign to her traumatic life.

With each day Amos teaches her, she is visited by The Childhood Snatcher, the titular hooded entity who, as he takes each of little Albert's hairs night by night, she grows up throughout a whole week, learning loads, getting a grip on ingenuity and eventually becoming Prime Minister, distressing her mother yet pleasing her sick, twisted science teacher father.

When the final night comes, the titular villain visits Albert one last time. Before he plucks the final hair out of her bald head, he takes off his hood to reveal his old, wrinkled face, and when Albert's parents run to see what's wrong, guess what they see?

An old lady.

Oh god. This is what makes tales like Grizzly Tales hard to identify when you are a kid, but easy to identify when you're an adult who has been through therapy, plus a tech addiction, for seven whole years! Through my therapeutic experiences and learning about various disorders and disabilities...

I learnt from these three entries that there's an odd one out among all these shows. Two are positive. But one is negative. Can you guess which?

Leave your guesses below in the comments. If you do, then you'll understand that even Boohbahs are diagnosed too.

P.S.....

BOOHBAH!!!

Girls Out Of Their Minds

All ITV executives, lend me your full attention. Thanks very much.

So, do you remember when you made a drama series for CITV titled 'Girls In Love'? *nods* I do. Well, throughout all six episodes of this nostalgic teen drama, there are visuals represented by crudely drawn animated drawings that represent main character Ellie's love of art and making things and painting.

BUT! Underneath all this, there is a reason behind Ellie's presence and the crudely-styled animations that appear throughout. The truth begins now...

All these crude animated drawings that appears throughout each episode, even with Ellie present, are visual representations where we believe the main character is diagnosed, not mentioned on screen, with psychosis, a disorder which causes people like our main woman to hallucinate and see things which aren't there.

Now, although these visuals are meant to represent what goes on inside Ellie's head, we are lead to believe that all of these drawings are actually real, as thought up by Miss E herself. Maybe if you addressed Miss E's psychosis on the show, you could've had 1,000 complaints from parents!

But no, I am the only one who discovered the dark truth behind every single animated visual in this snazzy adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's best-selling book for older teens.

To you? It's a representation of how teens see the world and what goes on inside their heads.

To me? It's actually psychosis. There is no cure.

Bet if there is, then you wouldn't have made Girls In Love now would you?

WOULD YOU?!

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