Funny Facts
Bullfrogs do not sleep!
1) Bark loudly at the door until you are allowed out. Once out, bark loudly to come back in again. 2) If you need to be sick, make sure you’re as far from the door as possible, preferably on a deep-pile carpet. 3) Make sure your favourite ball is well and truly slimy before you deposit it on masters or mistresses’ lap to throw it for you. 4) Put on your best ‘starving’ expression and whine whenever ANYONE is eating. 5) Make sure to play enthusiastically with your noisiest squeaky toy during the best part of every film your owners…
The Green Man is believed to symbolise the cycle of life, death and re-birth. The symbol of Godhood within the male and its relationship with the transcendent life force of our Goddess, the female expression of divinity. He is a Pagan symbol who heralds Spring after a long winter and the renewal of lush vegetation. Lady Raglan suggested that in antiquity, the Green Man was ‘the central figure in the May Day celebrations throughout Northern and Central Europe’. As the Green Man is also portrayed with acorns and hawthorn leaves, symbols of fertility in medieval times, this would seem to…
Saint George’s Day represents the feast day of Saint George, celebrated by Christian churches, countries, and cities of which he is the patron saint, including Bulgaria, England, Georgia, Portugal and Romania, Saint George’s Day is celebrated on 23rd April each year which is the traditionally accepted date of the saint’s death in the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. St George stands for the courage to face adversity in order to defend the innocent. The triumph of good over evil, through courage. The choice of St George as England’s patron saint was predominantly that of one man, King Edward III, who reigned…
Did you know that at six months of age, children are already interested in objects? They see colours and shapes, and reach out for their favourite ones, already developing observational skills. By the age of eleven months they can respond to a growing number of words, so what better way to increase children’s learning even at the earliest ages than by seeing images of what is being read to them? They are never too young to be introduced to the simplest picture books. We all lead busy lives and none more so than parents. In the midst of the hustle…
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If your truthful answer to at least half of these questions is ‘Yes’, then you are definitely wrapped around their little claw… 1) If your cat takes an instant dislike to someone, do you decide that person is not nice to know? 2) Do you have no room for your own food in the fridge because of all the cans of rejected cat-food? 3) Do you think the way the cat stretches as they sharpen their claws on your furniture is really cute? 4) Do you put your coat on to try to keep warm as you stand with the…
Happiness is just another attitude. Always choose it over misery.
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