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All my diary pages going back to 2009
DRAWING & PAINTING:
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Brown Teddy sent me this picture. The wind
normally comes from the west, so the side with leaves still on must
be east, which means Brown Teddy was facing south at the time. He
then turned north and came home into the warm!
Dino says these are for bedding for dinosaurs
that live with people.
This picture is from Blue Parrot, who says it
is really easy for him to obey this sign. Not so good, though, if
you don't have any wings to take you upwards!
Dino says it wasn't him who ate half the moon,
as he never eats anything that has suspicious marks on it that might
be mould!
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Dino sent me this picture. He says that,
despite the Bromley Museum poster, dinosaurs are not extinct at all
and are living happily in a very nice house in Orpington. Blue
Parrot sometimes claims to be a sort of flying dinosaur that just
happens to have colourful feathers, so that's two in one house for
starters.
Thank once again, Dino, for finding an edible
building. This is the old Library in Priory Park, which seems to
made up of vanilla wafers covered in chocolate and crushed Brazil
nuts, with caramel cream filling between. Now that the Library has
moved to the High Street, can we all now set to and eat the wafers?
These flint stones look just like the squares on the tower in
Hall Place, which you can see in my Diary.
Dino says he saw this rainbow in the cupboard
and wanted to keep it for later. He shut the door quickly but a bit
of the rainbow got trapped in the door. Well done, Dino, but I think
that later the rainbow will have soaked into all the sheets and put
some colour back into the faded ones!
Dino sent me this picture of a giant road
eating dinosaur. When roads get old, the dinosaur eats them up and
then people come along and lay a new road surface. It is so heavy it
can't walk so it goes along on trackwheels. Thank you, Dino, we were
wondering what that very heavy rumbling sound was for the last few
weeks!
Brown Teddy was wondering whether the workman
who painted the lines got paid double wages for the extra work. He
was also wondering what the road rules are for the island bit in the
middle, and who is allowed to walk on it. We finally decided that
only the pigeons are allowed. The line separates the cyclists from
people walking.
Dino says these are loads of baked potatoes. I
really think he should eat a bigger breakfast, so that he doesn't
get so hungry mid-morning. These pebbles are near some steps by the
roadside. I think they look like a flock of sheep on a green field.
Blue Parrot has decided that this sign means
"Beware of Angry Artists who brought all their paints except the
Blue Pot." Well, I can sympathise, but that danger must be past now,
because the sign has been left lying on the verge.
Dino sent me this picture of Priory Buildings
in Orpington. He says either there was a tiny earthquake underneath
this particular room (caused by dinosaurs walking past) or the
building has had a bad case of hiccups. I think it looks like a
slice of walnut layer cake being removed from a large slab, and it
makes me hungry just looking at it, especially the stripes which are
of course the chocolate creamy bits.
Dino says this is a snow snake climbing a
lamppost. Brown Teddy says he thinks the wind was blowing the other
side and this side was a bit sheltered. Whatever it is, it is gone
now but I am glad someone took a photo.
Dino has made a special effort to get out and
about looking for pictures. He says this is a chain fence made up of
old dinosaur teeth that are as hard as iron. The second picture he
claims is the winning throw in a dinosaur javelin throwing contest
using real tree trunks. If we pulled it out of the ground, would we
find a pointed end or a lot of roots? I wonder!
Blue Parrot says this looks like giant feathers
floating across the sky, but he prefers coloured ones!
Dino would really like to put this picture up
in the kitchen to remind people what the best dinner is. In oven
chip bags there is sometimes one really big one and we make sure
that Dino always gets that one on his plate.
Dino is keeping this picture by his bedside. He
loves eating sugared almonds, and when he does you can hear the
crunching from the next room. Unfortunately, these are roadside
stones but the picture does help him remember the delights of the
almonds – and it might also remind someone to buy some for him.
Brown Teddy sent me these pictures of Daddy, Mummy and Little Girl. I think it is the Blobby Family. The first one is on a wide path to show which half is for people walking and which half is for cyclists. The yellow one is a car park sign.
Dino thought this was a nosebag full of grass
for a very large dinosaur-sized horse. It is really the plastic ties
that were round the crates of paving bricks for the new pavements in
Orpington High Street. It would take quite some chewing!
Blue Parrot spotted these while flying with us
on our walks – looking down on a snowy mountain range in the first
morning sunlight, and a snow-capped round mountain made of volcanic
granite. I think he had some help from Dino with those descriptions.
(The first is on a frosty morning at Hewitts Farm Boot Sale, where
they put straw in the mud so the cars don't get stuck. The second is
on a road corner, to stop cars going over the pavement, which would
be very dangerous for people walking.)
Dino was delighted to see that the motorway
over Crittalls Corner roundabout was held up with giant breadsticks.
I think they look like seaside rock with the sugary words down the
middle. Dino says this cloud picture is three mounds of mashed potato, one
for himself, one for me and one for Brown Teddy. I like my mash
fluffy and especially with some veggie sausages sticking out of the
top!
Brown Teddy showed me this photo because it
is puzzling and I am good at puzzles. He wants to know how the
footprints are in two's. It could be someone was bunny-hopping or
even kangaroo-ing, but then they would have fallen over. Maybe the
person was taking big steps with one foot and the other foot was
always catching up. If you look carefully you can see the toes are
pointing in opposite directions, so I think the person walked down
and then walked back. Puzzled solved!
"This bicycle got tired of living on top of
the post and has decided to go for a ride along the ground. This
would be just my size if it was a real bike!" – Brown Teddy
Dino sent me this picture of a giant amphibious
Logosaurus in Orpington Priory Park pond. I told Dino I can't see
any eyes, so it must be a tree log, but Dino said it was sleeping.
The ducks and coots like to sit on it because it is a safe place to
rest.
Dino told me about a giant atom in Orpington
Priory Park and he has finally got a photo of it. As you can see,
atoms have a lot of space in them. It has to be an atom of
something, and Dino says it is an atom of Parkium. Where did he get
that name from?
"Two sticks of seaside rock on a mound of
chocolate crunchy powder, and a humongous ginormous piece of
liquorice that we saw at Rochester." – Dino.
(You can't eat them! – Yellow Teddy)
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"This shark was swimming in the air and it was
very windy so a lot of swimming was being done. Like me, he takes
good care of all his teeth so he can eat his dinners." – Dino.
"These three red berries are on some tiny holly plants in a tub.
There were more but I think the birds have visited them. They
started off green in the middle of a flower. I would like
these berries to survive until it snowed, but the birds may come
back. Well, even if they do, we still have the plants and next year
they will be bigger and better." – Brown Teddy
Dino chose this picture from my Mote Park photos. He says they are
not tree roots but baby dinosaurs that have hatched and are about to
slide into the water. He says they are Croco-saurus and they eat
leaves and sticks. That would explain all the bits of broken sticks
around the edge of the lake. I think they are friendly little
dinosaurs, if they are not tree roots that is! – Yellow Teddy
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Dino did write a caption for this on a scrap of
paper but it got a
bit pink and soggy. He ate the whole slice and did not want any
snacks for quite a while. I have planted the melon seeds in a pot
and we are waiting for the plants to appear. - Yellow Teddy
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"This plant catches flies in a cage. It
starts off open, but when the fly walks on the red bits, the cage
shuts. It is called Venus Fly Trap." – Dino.
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"The wooden squirrel and wooden owl are in Stockwood Park in Luton and are as big as a grownup person.
They are carved from dead tree trunks that are still in the ground. They
make the park look very friendly." – Brown Teddy.
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"Yellow Teddy got this puzzle keyring for me at
the boot fair. When I look at it I try to decide which is my
favourite colour but I like them all. I am starting a treasure box
of my own and this will go in it. It is a plastic sandwich box but Yellow
Teddy says he will find me a more beautiful one." – Brown Teddy.
UPDATE: Here is the lovely box that Yellow Teddy found for me. It is a Noah's Ark Biscuit Tin, and it has African people helping the animals onto the ark. I am going to make some compartments from the bottoms of plastic bottles, to put my beads and shells in. Thank you, Yellow Teddy!
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This is Dino lying on his beanbag, trying to
deal with 3 satsumas at once. I am not sure if he is eating them or
pretending they are dinosaur eggs. I don't think he ever eats just
one of anything.
Dino did this painting quite a few years ago.
He says it is called "Back view of a crowd of blue and green
dinosaurs admiring a red and yellow sunset on a summer's evening,
just after a big cream-tea picnic in the garden." Dino does a good
painting but his descriptions are even more ingenious!
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"This is my Observation Bag. It is a sunglasses
bag with a belt clip. I keep my notepad, pencils and sharpener in
it. I am always
ready for anything. I chose red so that I could always find it." – Brown Teddy.
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Dino says this is a photo of an Airline Pilot
changing his mind, after getting a call from his Mum from those
mobile phone masts, saying that it is Crusty Pie and Mash for
dinner. (They never do that, but Dino prefers his explanation.)
Brown Teddy and I agree that this is a bench
for people who like to change their minds all the time, depending on
which way the wind is blowing. The bench is at the river end of
Rochester High Street.
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This plane is on display at Rochester Airfield.
Dino is convinced it is a giant novelty pencil sharpener, for the
big yellow pencil that is used to draw the double yellow lines along
main roads. Well, I have never seen them doing the yellow lines, so I
can't really comment on that.
Dino says he wants a flying bike like this one.
Sounds a bit like a Rupert Bear adventure to me. The child in the
picture is obviously asking the grownup the same thing.
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Brown Teddy really likes this friendly-looking Owl Seat which is by
a boating pond in Orpington. The seat is in memory of someone who
liked to sail his model boats there, so I think the circles are boat
steering wheels, the wavy bits are water, and the arm rests are
anchors. But we are calling it
the Owl Seat.
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Dino rescued this heart-shaped potato while
watching someone getting the dinner ready. He is going to admire it
for a day or two, then have it for dinner as a jacket potato, which
means it won't get peeled and lose its shape. He says it is going to taste a lot better
than the average potato and he is going to fill it with quark
cheese, hot tomatoes and lots of beans. Update: Dino says he
enjoyed arranging the beans in the spud and playing counting games,
before he ate it all.
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