Maggie Burton, Angus’s mum, has been successful in getting the travellers to move on. This means that I won’t see Amber Skylark again and it is CAUSING ME TO STAY AWAKE AT NIGHT. Ram said we must NOT BLAME ANGUS BURTON because children CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE for the ACTIONS OF THEIR PARENTS. The good thing about travellers is that their HORSES DO NOT EXCEED THE SPEED LIMIT. Which leads me on to something I want to tell you about.
Speed cameras save lives they say … but then also could scarecrows! I have just been reading about a family from Glastonbury who crafted a pair of scarecrows for a VILLAGE FETE but after placing them on the wall outside their home, the family noticed a SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN THE SPEED OF CARS – with ASTONISHINGLY most drivers sticking to the 30MPH LIMIT. When I told Ram and Angus about this we felt it might be a GOOD IDEA to conduct a survey to see which FAMOUS PEOPLE would make GOOD SCARECROWS with a view to REPLACING SPEEDCAMERAS with SCARECROWS. We felt it was not possible to name some of the suggestions without their permission in case they took LEGAL ACTION. Anyway ROADCROWS, as we are calling them, could also serve the DUAL PURPOSE of SLOWING DOWN SPEEDING DRIVERS and being a TOURIST ATTRACTION for Britain. These were the ten most popular suggestions for ROADCROWS:
- 1. Queen Victoria
2. Christiano Ronaldo (even though he’s about to go to Spain)
3. Elvis Presley (he visited England)
4. William Shakespeare
5. William Wordsworth (he could be decorated with daffodils)
6. Henry VIII (Angus wanted this one because he has the same name as his dog
7. Harry Potter (but we would need to ask permission from J K Rowling)
8. Scrooge
9. Nelson
10. Postman Pat
(We thought we’d give Boris Johnson a break as we have already suggested he could be turned into a candle and a river float.) See previous posts.