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Location: Lake District, Cumbria.
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In memory of our friend EssBee who died suddenly in September 2006.
You were much loved and will be sorely missed.
" He is the soul of honesty and loyalty.
He is never false or treacherous, even in his old age.
(The Boxer)"
Dinky's trip to Australia
I expect you are all wondering how Dinky managed to get to AUSTRALIA
Well I'll tell you, after Dinky's lovely day spent with his cousin Nessie he was floating down South through the clouds when a great big passenger jet came alongside him. A man with a very neat moustache and beard called out to Dinky "Hello there, my name's captain Williams and I'm the pilot of this areoplane. Would you like a lift...just grab hold of the planes tail" Dinky thought this would be very exciting and so he did as captain Williams had told him
The plane and Dinky flew very fast and very high, for hours and hours. Dinky found it very exciting flying over all the countries and seeing the vast seas far below. After a long, long time the plane landed and Dinky found that he was in Australia!
Dinky decided to go for a float around to see what Australia is like. He found out that it is a very big country with mountains, deserts, forests, big, rivers and some lovely seaside beaches. It is winter now in Australia and Dinky saw that some of the mountains even had snow on them.
Dinky was feeling very hungry after all of his sightseeing and decided to have a rest under a gum tree in a place called the Outback where it was nice and warm and not too many people about. Dinky nodded off to sleep and as he awoke he saw a kangaroo looking at him "Hello cobba" she said "who and what are you"? Dinky told the kangaroo all about himself and where he had come from. Lottie (that was her name) said that she thought Dinky looked hungry and asked him if he'd like something to eat. Dinky replied "yes please, I'm starving" and lottie said that she'd have a look in her pouch and see what she could find. "What's a pouch"? asked Dinky. Lottie explained that a pouch is a sort of bag on a female kangaroo's tummy where she can carry all sorts of useful things and with that Lottie opened her pouch and after taking out her keys, sunglasses, lipstick, a screwdriver, a book, a pen, and a torch she handed Dinky a bacon sandwich. It was the best bacon sandwich Dinky had ever eaten. Guess what else Lottie had in her pouch, all snug and warm...a tiny, weeny baby kangaroo called Joey. Dinky would have liked to stay and play with Joey but, he was having his afternoon nap and so Dinky said thank you and goodbye to Lottie and floated about some more.
Dinky met some very strange and unusual looking animals, the likes of which he had never seen before. He met a cuddly wombat, an echidna (which is a bit like a hedgehog but it lays eggs like a chicken
), a dingo (which reminded him a bit of Mishka), a possum, a wallaby, a flying fox, a koala and lots of wild budgerigars and other colourful parrots! Dinky started to feel a little hungry again and he found some trees with banannas growing on them and he quickly gobbled up 3 for his tea.
The animals had told Dinky about another strange animal called the Tasmanian Devil that lives on a close by Island called Tasmania. Dinky floated across to Tasmania where he met a family of Devils. He was a little bit frightened of them at first because they make a lot of noise and have big mouths with sharp-looking teeth. They fight and scrape for food and their manners are not good at all.
While Dinky was in Tasmania he met a lovely old lady called EssBee and he told her all about his adventures. EssBee was really kind and she helped Dinky to write and send a postcard, a letter and some stickers to Megan to tell her all about his big adventure. Dinky thanked EssBee for all of her help and then floated up into the air and out across the sea...........................
Megan got her postcard from Dinky and couldn't believe where he'd been.
She put all the stickers on her car and read his postcard.
and then "right I'm off to Australia then"
Megan would like to say a huge THANK YOU to EssBee and all of Dinky's friends XX