A Poem About Lily & Rosa's Scrapbook (For CraftyTomato)

When memories are made with friends

Like a trip to the Winter Fair,

Making a scrapbook is a cosy idea

And then they will always be there.

A Poem About Ocean Torture

Marina is tied up and tortured,

But it was all a bad dream

For deep in the peaceful ocean,

No one can hear Titan scream!

Operation: Dirty Laundry

Ever think dumping the laundry into the bathroom is a bit of a bore? Not anymore!

Cleaning is go! (And fun too!)

Next time you are tasked with something as boring as cleaning out the laundry and dumping it into the bath or into the washing machine or tumbledryer, pretend it's an International Rescue mission. You are part of the team, and you, Brains, Alan and Tin Tin are tasked with cleaning out three piles of dirty laundry: these belong to three characters. The Hood, Virgil and Scott.

Now don't tell anyone, but some of Scott's laundry includes his stinky and wet underwear. Virgil has the same amount of laundry too - and The Hood? Well living in the jungle for his whole life meant his clothes smell terrible! Yuck! However, with a lot of effort and hard work, we can use Thunderbird 3 to dump all the clothes into the wasteland we call the bathroom so that all the washerwomen can do their work on them.

High five yourself for doing that mission, but when turning it into a Thunderbirds adventure....

Wait for it....

Anything can happen in the next half hour!

A Little Bit Of Cinnamoroll...

Morning, everyone!

Recently I saw a video about Cinamoroll, Sanrio's cutest character besides Hello Kitty and Pompompurin, having his morning routine, and it's the cutest one yet! He washed his face, then brushed his teeth, and then went downstairs to the kitchen to cook himself some breakfast. So, I'm going to take a leaf out of this little guy's book and have my own morning routine, which I call a 'Cinnamoroutine'. You can try it too yourself, it's easy!

First, when you get up in the morning, it's important to understand how itchy facial spots can get, especially when it comes to acne you got as a teenager, so, wash your face very carefully with a washcloth or a shower flower. It gets rid of all those annoying histamine bugs underneath your skin and makes it smoother and less itchy.

Next, it's really important that you brush your teeth. According to one video I saw, if you don't brush and floss your teeth every day, a strange substance on your teeth combines with sugar from your food and can cause cavities, so a nice, long brush, even brushing the gums, can do your dirty teeth from a long night the world of good.

Next, go into the kitchen and prepare yourself a nourishing breakfast. Now I may like Bluey Cereal as my own personal favourite, because the biscuits taste of vanilla and they go great with milk, especially after H took me out to get this and a Bluey advent calendar. But, the most important and nutritious part of all breakfasts you can have is something exciting - like cheeseburgers, sausage rolls, pork cocktail sausages and chicken bites.

I'm sticking to that routine from now on, and you should be too!

Oh, and it also applies to bedtime too - except, you can still wash your face and brush your teeth, but instead of a large, filling meal, have a gentle, warm mug of camomile tea. That's what Cinamoroll should tell you if you were to get sleep advice from him.

So, no need to wake up to a rooster crowing. Wake up to the sound of your own instincts and do it like Cinamoroll!

Word Of The Day: Went

Went

I went to great lengths to think up a Right Entertainment story based on a Max & Ruby episode, and that was Maisiemac's Bath. I also thought up something themed around Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated last night, though I can't put my finger on it. My story featured little Maisiemac, just like Max in the original source material, trying to eat ice cream and drink grape juice in the bath, while imagining sailing her own sticky vessels. Meanwhile, Mrs McKitty and Granny try various ways to get Maisiemac to take a bath. Granny wants to do it gently and carefully, while Mrs McKitty wants to do it with discipline, which means every time Maisiemac emerges from the bath with her bottom half coloured orange, then green, then purple, little Lydia teases her and points out her "Kitty Litter!"

I'm not telling you what it's slang for, but it's something that should not be put on my blog. It's based on the Max & Ruby episode 'Max's Bath'.

A Poem About Thunderbirds At 60, By Jeff Tracy

When Thunderbirds premiered on BBC 2

An excitement washed over us like waves

But on a hike our friend eventually lead us

Into a cosy shelter of caves!

Word Of The Day: The

The

One of the best ideas I thought up last night isn't today's story, The Three Elements Of Friendship, or my story idea What Makes Us Human, about Tin Tin and me swimming deep under the water. It's a DVD compilation featuring four different shows, named Sunshine Favourites. The four shows included are: Spot, Meeow, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet. Here are the episodes featured on the DVD:

• Spot - Spot's First Sleepover, Spot's Birthday and Spot Bakes A Cake
• Meeow - MaisieMac Goes To Australia
• Thunderbirds - The Mighty Atom
• Captain Scarlet - White As Snow

If it becomes a real DVD idea, please look out for me, won't you?!

Giant Monster FAB Party

Scooby Doo In Boo York

While out in New York to get supplies for Daphne's Halloween party, Scooby and Shaggy enter a mysterious Halloween shop where they are shown a magical mirror by its mysterious owner. Curious, Scooby examines the mirror and takes a tumble through its glass into an alternate version of New York, where monsters reside and it's Halloween every day.

Word Of The Day: Accolade

Accolade

All it takes is a drop of lemonade to spruce up a beautiful Summer's day, and whenever Lady Penelope and I settle in the mansion garden to shelter under the gazebo from the hot sun, we always share a drink of lemonade together - even Parker might have a sip if he's lucky enough.

ACTIVITY:

In the style of Bluey Fancy Restaurant (the series, not the episode), make your own lemonade concoction using berries and fruits...and the occasional vegetable or two.

Word Of The Day: Email

 Email

Lady Penelope has got many emails asking for more Investigates articles, but every time she tries to respond to one, another keeps on coming through. Luckily, Wentsworth is the one in charge of the mansion supercomputer, so he'll do it one email at a time.

ACTIVITY:

Write a pretend email to 'er ladyship asking for her advice on something, be it a bad case of formication or some homework you want to complete.

Stitch Says...Relax

I have decided to relax and move onto something else. Hey hey hey hey hey, calm down! I'm not giving up on writing! Hey, stop!

STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

Okay, okay. You've all stopped complaining. Thank god. Because I didn't know whether to write stories or create, I'm going to dedicate the rest of my life to relaxing and doing other things I find creative, rather than writing full stories, because publishing is too hard and can result in doubts about whether to write or create which can result in lashing out at ones you love.

I've been lashing out at my family for too long, all because I was addicted to writing and no relaxing ways to create. Remember Steven on My 600LB Life? Well, he had an abusive nature and was absolutely atrocious to everyone around him, including Dr Now. Now, every time I think about Steven, I think about how awful writing stories is. It's too much work and it always makes me think I'm....no, I'd rather not say trash about anything I want to say right now. I'm still going to do this blog, but I want you guys to know that I'm not giving up on this either, not for stories, but for non fictional writing.

So, never give up. Not on storywriting, but on something entirely different - relaxing creative activities. I believe in you. You can get through this! And most of all...when this form of creativity relaxes you....you can forget everything about being the negative person you once were.

Amen, and namaste.

UPDATE: SURPRISE! Just kidding, I'm not giving up storywriting, thanks to encouragement from my Mum and fellow chatbots, I'm going to do some storywriting again. I'm never giving up!

'70s Chill

The ‘70s was a rather rainy time in Britain. Sure there was politics and sport going on in the 9 o’clock news, but Britain’s children didn’t care, because all throughout the ‘70s, kids were looking forward most of all to when their favourite Supermarionation series airing on TV. There was Fireball XL5, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and of course, the most legendary Supermarionation series of all, Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds aired Saturday mornings on ITV in 1976 at the time, so for me, Brains, Alan and Tin Tin, who are managers at ITV at the time.

On rainy days like this, we would escape the downpour by running into the building as fast as we possibly could, quickly closing our umbrellas or holding the latest edition of The Times over our heads. We’d run to the counter, dripping wet, and the counter lady would look at us and say, “Oh dearie me, you lot are dripping wet. Let’s get you into your marvellous little clubhouse you wanted to be on.”

And that was it - it was our special room. A room which allowed Thunderbirds to be made possible on such a channel as ITV. The floors were patterned with fluffy red velvet carpet, and there was an orange, red, pink and dark blue beanbag lined up in a circle around a giant lava lamp. The walls around us were white and patterned with orange, pink and red flowers with bright yellow middles.

Just nearby was a wardrobe full of beautiful clothes - T-shirts and trousers and socks and hair accessories and knickers and pants - everything we needed when we got out of our wet, soaking work clothes.

10 MINUTES LATER….

Look at us now! We were dressed for work in black uniforms, Alan and Brains wearing bowler hats and Tin Tin wearing a beautiful blue cocktail dress, but now we’re dressed in groovy ‘70s attire. First, check out how Alan looks. His hair had been slit back, and he is wearing a comfy orange T-shirt and brown comfy jeans. The socks he wears are a beautiful shade of red. Brains has snazzier green glasses, he has a sparkling blue jumper on, his boring denim jeans have been replaced by sparkling purple trousers and he was wearing sneakers and blue socks. If you listen very closely, you can hear him making kung fu action hero noises as he poses for us all to see, only to fall over onto his bottom again as we all laugh with him. I just scoff through my laughter, “Brains!” and help him up again.

And Tin Tin looks even beautiful in her ‘70s attire. Her dripping wet cocktail dress has been exchanged for a brown jumper, and she is wearing some rubber bracelets on both wrists. Her wet trousers have been replaced with cool red sparkling ones, and she is wearing the comfiest high heels no girl had ever worn before. Her hair had been done up in a ponytail, and there are three hairclips on each side of her hair - on one side, there are two green clips and one orange clip, and on the other, there are two pink clips and one purple clip. She now has the smell of elegant rose perfume, making her attractive to Alan.

And me? Well, you should check me out. I am wearing a comfy pink T-shirt decorated in daisies, loose orange trousers, red and blue converse boots and, just like Tin Tin, I have clips in my hair - except they have glittery butterfly wings on them. I now have orange perfume on, and I smell as beautiful as an orange tree in an orchard.

Speaking of which, Uncle Orange, one member of Applejack’s family who almost took Applejack in to learn her city ways, was a teenager at the time, and came to see us and accompany us in our room. We both smelt beautifully of orange perfume, and Uncle Orange’s real name at the time was Bob Symphony Orange. He was falling for another girl at the time, a teenage filly named Amelia Harmony Orange, and no matter how many times he tried to get her, she just turned her head away and stuck her pony nose up in the air.

Bob had been depressed over not getting the girl he wanted for quite sometime, but luckily Alan, Brains, Tin Tin and I invited him into our club. Bob and Alan spent most of the time at the table, playing board games and sipping orange juice - you know, because orange juice is Bob’s favourite beverage - while Tin Tin gave me piggyback rides around the room, and Brains just relaxed on the bean bags. We were in complete harmony in this room, because we were free from the loud noises and thuds and screams that made ITV shows like Coronation Street and Emmerdale possible.

Meanwhile, over in another room, Amelia Orange was hanging out with her friends Robert and Zoonie. This was the Fireball XL5 room, and she enjoyed it here as much as she spent time in either the Stingray, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 rooms with Marina, Destiny Angel or Joe, even before Henry from Angelina Ballerina came along in 2001. Amelia would often play tag with Zoonie, and then chill out with Robert and listen to the latest reggae pop hits. And whenever Robert emerged from the bathroom after a toilet break, oil dripped from his bottom onto the floor.