Lavender's Blog

A crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a fox observed her and her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said,"What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds." The crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese, of course, and the fox, snatching it up, said,"you have a voice, madam, I see. What you want is wits." (Aesop) :)

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candlelight. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day? quote Robert Louis Stevenson

I keep my garden neat and trim, And pluck out every weed; Though now and then the summer sun Is very hot indeed. I rake and smooth the soil with care, Which takes a lot of pains, And water every plant each day- Excepting when it rains. For all the flowers seem so glad When raked and watered well, They lift their heads as if to say "You'll like the way we smell."