Happy Christmas You Filthy Animals
Kate The Kamikaze Onion

Kate the kamikaze onion was such a lovely friend
Kate, Penny pea, Pete parsnip and Big Spud got on so well, there was no need to pretend
Any time they found themselves in heaps and heaps of trouble
The rest would turn up quickety quick and save them at the double
But sometimes Kate’s arrival would be a bit too much
She’d break everything in sight and be an awful klutz
Like when Pete Parsnip’s kite got caught way up in a tree
And Kate came crashing in to help with a little bit too much glee
She thundered in and the next they knew Pete and Penny were in the river
With a splash and a splosh into freezing water, it really made them shiver!
And once Big Spud was peddling off on his brand new bike
He wasn’t doing very well as he usually rode a trike
As he careered down a hill he really lost control
And through a great big bramble bush he was about to roll
Kate bounded in to try and help and knocked Spud to the ground
But Spud cried out, ‘ Kate, there’s always an accident whenever you’re around.’
Kate was sad, she didn’t mean to upset anyone
Or make a mess of anything or ruin her friends fun
So Kate said,’I am going home, I don’t feel like deserting, but every time I try and help, it’s my friends I end up hurting!’
Meanwhile, as Kate was heading off, Penny Pea found herself cornered
By Reeky Russell and his band of brussel sprout marauders
Russell shouted, ‘ Little Pea, we’ve eaten all our greens and we’re all full of gas
If you don’t want the brunt of it, run off at a dash!’
Penny Pea was frightened and didn’t know what to do
And Russell and his gang mates, they let their squeakers go!
With a pump and a trump and a whoopee do, Pea was in a haze
Of horrible, stinky, smelly air that formed an impossible maze
Those farts just kept on coming and it was really getting whiffy
Pea couldn’t take much more of this as she was feeling very squiffy
Just then Kate picked up the scent of this terrible commotion
She quickly made a plan and put it into motion
With a blood curdling cry of ‘Kamikazee’ she hurtled down the lane
Heading straight for Russell and his mates as she knew they were to blame
Hurtling at a rate of knots Kate knocked all those sprouts flying
And as the smelly mist cleared she discovered Penny Pea crying
‘ Oh Kate, thank you so much for coming to my aid’
‘ I just didn’t know what to do in that horrible smell they made’
So Penny Pea, Pete Parsnip and Big Spud all threw a thankyou party
With cake, jelly and sausages and a great big bowl of smarties
And they all learnt the lesson that however unlikely it seems
That whatever your skills , one day they’ll come in handy and be the stuff of dreams
And after the cake they gave Kate a T shirt they had made
She proudly put it on and went out on parade
It looked just like one the wrestlers wear on WWE
‘ But look’, said Kate,’ It spells KKO, just for little old me!’
Kingfisher

The Kingfisher By Lee Salisbury
The sighting of a Kingfisher is truly a wonder to behold
It’s a fabulous story that simply must be told
He’s a speeding glimpse of electric blue
That will take your breath away from you
It maybe luck, it could be chance He’s just come back and he’s perched on a branch
Over the river he’s fishing I bet Chest flame orange like the warmest sunset
Beak long and thin, very narrow Sharper than any sword or arrow
A white stripe of marking at the side of his eyes
Then the most wondrous surprise Body and wings electric blue and iridescent green
There the brightest colours I’ve ever seen
Shimmering vibrant in the sun, bringing them alive He crouches , he’s focused,
I wonder will he dive
Whoooshh Down like a bullet a lightening flash
All without hardly a splash
He comes from the water a shake and a quiver
Then one last mesmerising display as he flys off down river
As he disappears round the bend and behind the reed
I say to myself, hungry mouth to feed
So my question to you is how can a little bird so small
Leave us in complete and utter awe That’s the power of the Kingfisher no other bird can compete
He makes your heart skip a beat
So a smile on my face for the rest of the day
The beauty of nature effects me that way
I gather myself, Mother Nature granted my wish But best of all he caught the fish 🐟
