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This Mother Goose tale is unlike any other. It brings together the characters Little Miss Muffet, Little Bo Peep, and Mary Who Had a Little Lamb to explain how important it is to include everyone ~ especially in Mother Gooseland! Cast members in order of appearance include :Peg Bryan as the Narrator; Karen Merritt as Mother Goose; Lillian Kenyon as Miss Muffet; Taryn Yutzy as Little Bo Peep; and Kelly Burd as Mary. Written by Karrie Fetter. A Production of We Are One Body® Audio Theatre.

The Daily Quiz - Art and Literature Today's Questions: Question 1: In an early Stephen King novel, which titular character is a student at Ewen High? Question 2: In DC comics, What is the secret identity of 'Dick Grayson'? Question 3: In which book series does 'Hagrid' appear? Question 4: In "Little Miss Muffet", what are the two foods being consumed by Miss Muffet when the spider frightens her? Question 5: Who is the youngest daughter of King Lear, and the only one who truly loved him? Question 6: Which author wrote 'Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light'? Question 7: Which author wrote 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'? Question 8: Which author wrote 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'? Question 9: What type of position does Hamlet hold in the Shakespeare play? This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cheesy and Fondue learn about nursery rhymes and cheese. We talk about the farmer, Miss Muffet, Aiken Drum and a jovial Welshman. We find out about the moon and some cheese advent calendars . And of course, we tell a very cheesy joke!Find us at www.justcheesy.com and everywhere you enjoy social media! https://linktr.ee/JustCheesy***Newsly is the sponsor of this episode! Go to https://newsly.me to download the free app and listen to articles, podcasts and digital radio! Get a FREE 1-Month Premium Subscription by using promo code CHEESY. Start listening today! ***Why is cheddar the most dangerous of all the cheeses? Because it is very sharp!Show Notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_in_the_Dellhttps://www.grandecig.com/blog/what-little-miss-muffet-and-athletes-have-in-common#:~:text=“Little%20Miss%20Muffet%20sat%20on,for%20more%20than%20200%20years.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiken_Drumhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_is_made_of_green_cheese#:~:text=In%20its%20original%20formulation%20as,for%20a%20round%20cheese%20wheel.https://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/ontopofspaghetti.htmlhttps://www.amazon.com/Loved-Nursery-Rhymes-Songs-Library/dp/B000I9YE32https://www.bussongs.com/songs/three-jovial-welshmenhttps://www.coursesidekick.com/biology/2096825This Week in Cheesehttps://www.murrayscheese.com/dp/12-days-of-murray-s-cheese?srsltid=AfmBOoqLL3Z7X8kAl0tH1qz5_djAb02dt5mqK9NxTIi-V4px1L_iYiEahttps://www.foodandwine.com/aldi-advent-calendars-2024-8732186

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Lorna's continues her tale.In 8 parts, By jane700bond. Listen to the ► Podcast at ExplicitNovels. Next to the school was a park and in we went skipping still arm in arm. There on the park bench sat Iain who had been on the Duke of Edinburgh camping adventure with us."Hi Iain!" Laura shouted as we went and sat down on either side of him. "Why aren't you in school?""Mr bloody Brown did not like my bloody brown shoes! 'They should be black!' he said. 'Wrong uniform, no entry.' He bloody said that even though he knew I won the physics prize." Thank the gods, we will never have to come back to this bloody place. I bet it was because of what happened on camp with that perverted bastard.""We'll cheer you up!" I said and for the first time he looked up from his misery and looked at the pair of us properly."Wow!" he said when he saw how we were dressed. He ogled my cleavage and then ogled Lorna's on the other side of him. "How about we have our own prize-giving!" I suggested.Iain smiled warmly, laid a hand on my knee and a hand on Laura's knee and suggested we went for a coffee. So, we all three got up and holding hands went to the local coffee shop and ordered lattés and pain au chocolat.We sat down at a small round table where our legs met underneath. Iain sat with his knees apart and one leg between my legs and one leg between Laura's legs. The wool of his trousers felt hot against my bare skin, but I shivered with anticipation and pushed myself further in, Iain's leg pushing my skirt back up my thighs until his knee was pushing against my cunt. I felt a warm blush on my cheeks and breathed out heavily."Must go to the loo!" Said Iain suddenly and with a wink at me, got up disappeared through the door marked toilets.Laura looked at me, in that way twin sisters do, and we both agreed I should follow him. So, checking the barista was too busy to notice, I got up and followed him. Iain was in an outer room and as soon as I appeared, he guided me into one of the combined toilet and washrooms and locked the door behind us. He was on me in a moment, grabbing my head and pulling it towards him so we could kiss deeply. He was taller than me and after a few moments he put his arms around me and lifted me up. I wrapped my legs around his waist ramming my clit on the cold hard metal of his belt buckle. I could feel the head of his cock hard up against my cunt trying to force its way through the layers of clothes. We kissed with passionate abandonment, his hands playing and massaging my bottom and digging deeper into my panties to find my now burning cunt.He swung me around and placed me a wide shelf. His hands pushed at the shoulders of my blazer and peeled it back over my arms and dumped it on the floor, then he was at the knot in my blouse and freed my breasts, massaging them and tweaking my nipples.All the time, our tongues entwined and our kisses became deeper. Then his hand found the buckle of my kilt and pulling it away his tongue left my breathless mouth and he dived between my legs. He pulled the damp panties aside and drove his tongue deep into my slit, as I moaned with pleasure. His tongue worked and his nose rubbed against my clit. Coming up for air, Iain pushed my legs together, lifted me, and pulled my knickers down and off. Iain then lifted my legs apart so that each foot was up on the shelf and my naked steaming cunt was wide open before him, my juices glistening as he undid his trousers and freed his dick from his pants.I expected him to thrust fast and deep, but he held back, rubbing his penis up and down the labia, then he played his red helmet against my clit. I groaned and shuddered and he repeated the process, playing his dick against my slit, while his hands played with my tits. I was growing desperate for the length of him to thrust deep within me. Then his pushed the helmet half in, then out again and down and up my slit it went, always finally rubbing against my clit.My juiced were flowing and Iain bent down and rubbed his face against me, his tongue lapping my honey and his teeth nipping my clit. Then face wet with my sex he spread my juices over my nipples as he suckled me, the tip of his dick still exploring the outer reaches of my wet cave, but not going fully in. A hand went down and played with me whilst his mouth massaged my wet breasts, all the while my moans were getting louder.Iain stood up his put his honey-dewed hand to my lips to taste and we kissed and shared my love juice, licking his fingers clean between us. He stood upright and stepped forward, this time his long hard pole going unresisting deep inside my hot wet cunt; I nearly screamed with pleasure. His hands now on my knees, keeping my legs spread wide he thrust, again and again, my cunt muscles grabbing his full length and then letting go as we got into rhythm. I put a hand on my clit and started to bring myself off and swirls of heavenly delight lit up my brain. This was one of the best fucks I had ever had, and it went on, Iain thrusting long slow and deep inside me as my clit hardened towards climax. My muscles tightened on his shaft and I felt the tipping point approaching, then the world went red as the deluge of delight passed through me, and a double orgasm in my clit and my vagina hit me and I shouted aloud, hoping it would go on forever. Iain lifted me, his cock still deep inside, off from the shelf and onto the toilet seat, then he pulled out and thrust his dick into my open mouth and spurted a huge surge of hot cum. There was so much, I thought I might choke and I pulled him out of my mouth. The rest of his load sprayed over my face and tits.There was a frantic knock on the door. "Shit!" said Iain."It's me." Whispered a friendly voice and Iain opened the door to let in Laura. "Fuck me." She said "What have I missed? It sounded great." She eyed Iain's still rampant cock with the last of the cum, glistening on the tip. "Time to clean-up?"Without wasting time, Laura knelt in-front of Iain and took him in her mouth, while I sat on the loo completely bemused and befuddled. "Not much there." She said after a moment eyeing me. Then she moved in-front of me and started licking the cum off my face and rubbing my nipples with the cum on my breasts. Then she gave me a deep very spunky and not very sisterly kiss.Releasing me she said. "Umm! That is one cock each we've had so far today, but I haven't been fucked, so I reckon you're up on me sis. Where to next girls and boys?"There was another knock on the door, not friendly this time, and a shout of "Oi, what you lot doing in there! Get out you filthy lot." It was our friendly barista.Iain and I quickly dressed and we marched out to find him scowling outside. "Bloody school kids!" He moaned. "I ought to tell the fucking head-teacher about this. "Get back to school you perves and don't come back."We were soon back in the street and started walking back past the school gate. I had that wonderful warm glow on my insides that was the after-burn from that brilliant fuck, but like any identical twin, I knew my sister Laura was becoming desperate for the same thing. As we passed the gate, Miss Muffet called out to us. "Hey you three, hold on a moment!""You are needed for the Duke of Edinburgh Award presentation. Girls, if you follow me to my office, we will see if we can do something about your clothes. Iain, could you get together the other Duke of Edinburgh pupils and bring them to my office at, say 11:00?"With that Iain, with a broad grin on his face went off alone and we followed Miss Muffet.Her "office" was attached to the gym and besides a desk, there was loads of gym equipment and a shower where she could freshen up in private after exercising with the pupils. She locked the door and then said: "Right! I want you to take off those high-heels and stand together beside the sink, lets deal with the lipstick first."So Laura and I stood side by side and Miss Muffet got a tissue dampened it and started to rub it gently over my lips, the bright red coming off onto the white of the tissue. She stood very close and I could feel her breasts brushing mine and her warm sweet breath on my cheek. Then she moved on to Laura and started on her lips. Her breathing was becoming heavier and her movements becoming slower and more deliberate.She stood back and looked at us and seemed satisfied that our lips would now pass muster. "Now, "she said, "Those blouses are a mess."Standing in front of me, she undid the bow of my blouse and exposed my breasts. As she moved to Laura she brushed her hand against on left nipple and made me gasp. Then she stood in front of Laura and slowly undid her blouse. Laura smiled at her, and showed the tip of her tongue through her lips.This very strange situation got even stranger when Miss Muffet took my left breast in one hand and Laura's right breast in the other. "You know," said Miss Muffet, huskily, "you two are not quite identical, Laura, you've got bigger boobs." We both giggled and Miss Muffet's hands started not just to hold our breasts, but slowly caress them, squeezing our nipples between her thumb and forefinger, making them go hard.Then the teacher suddenly said "I can smell sex! Lorna, you appear to have some dry sperm here above your nipple and Laura, is that sperm on your neck? I better clean you up." Miss Muffet, was slightly taller than us and was really quite beautiful and as she leant forward and licked away a line of Iain's spunk from my cleavage I found I was beginning to really enjoy myself, especially as her tongue came across and circled my nipple, making me go tingly inside.Laura, started to move, but Miss Muffet said "No, just stand still! We still need to sort out your clothes." So, Laura stood there as Miss Muffet came back to her and, starting with the remains Adrian's cum, on her neck she kissed and licked her way down taking one of Laura's breasts in her mouth and suckling and then the other. Laura was beginning to moan in excitement.Suddenly, very business-like, Miss Muffet stood up straight and told us we would need to wear something else other than our blouses and she had spare gym tops we could use. "Right," she said, as though this was a lesson, "Turn to face each other. Closely now! Go on push yourselves tightly together." So, Laura and I stood, nose to nose, toe to toe and nipple pressing hard into nipple with great grins on our faces.Miss Muffet, started to peel off our blouses, leaving our naked backs fully exposed. Then she placed one hand on my skirt and the other on Laura's and said she was not sure the skirts would do either. In unison her two hands went down and under our kilts and she start caressing our bums, her hands pushing inside our knickers and playing over our smooth skin. Her face was flushed and she breathed heavily on our faces as she explored our soft silky flesh, working her way back and down towards our cracks. Laura's lips parted and her tongue licked my lips and we began to kiss and gyrate our breasts together as our juices started to flow in anticipation. "Gosh," said Miss Muffet, like some character out of Enid Blyton "I have fantasized about making love with you two since I first came here." Which was not a very Enid Blyton thing to say, but nice to know.Then I felt a thumb pushing against my crack and Laura and I moaned simultaneously as Miss Muffet started to push her thumbs up along our cracks until they came to our clits. Laura and I ground our breasts together, my nipples heating like fire. Then Laura was kissing me greedily. The edge of Miss Muffet's thumbnail met my engorged clit, which was still too sensitive after sex with Iain, and I gave a loud gasp.Miss Muffet straightened. "Right! I can still smell sex. Stand side by side again." We unwillingly parted again, I could see my saliva wet upon Laura's lips and my nipples hardened being exposed to the comparative cold. We stood still and excited as Miss Muffet deliberate lifted her hands to her nose and sniffed one and then the other."Lorna," she said "I do believe that you have had sex recently, don't deny it! Laura, you are wetter and hotter and I do believe you missed out on your sister's debauchery despite that obvious sperm I just removed from your neck. But I think a closer inspection is required. Please lie on my desk, knees up and legs apart!"Grinning impishly, Laura moved across the room and sat and they lay back on the desk and opened her legs. Her panties were very damp and pushed to one side exposing her pink gash.Miss Muffet started to take off her own blouse and sports bra, exposing a beautiful pair of breasts, the size of large oranges. "Wouldn't want to get any of your lovely fluids on my clothes, would we, whilst I am forced to undergo this messy inspection." she said. She then got a pair of scissors off the desk and cut through Laura's wet kickers exposing her baby smooth mound with its delicate landing strip.Miss Muffet then leant over the desk and sniffed deeply into Laura's crotch. With her nose she started to trace a line up and down Laura's cunt lips and pushing into her clit. Laura was loving it and squirmed as Miss Muffet started to use her tongue to lap up Laura's flowing juices. Then I saw Miss Muffet use her fingers to widen Laura's crack and with her tongue she fluttered Laura's clit. Slowly the teacher inserted a finger and started finger fucking Laura whilst tonguing her clit ever harder.I was beginning to get a little jealous. Miss Muffet was wearing track-suit bottoms, so I grabbed them and pulled them down to her ankles. She had come to school commando style and wore no panties, so I put my hand between her legs and felt her vagina burning not and wet. She gasped and began even more actively to tongue and finger-fuck Laura who had started to softly repeat "Fuck, fuck, fuck!" as the teacher expertly played with her sex.I rubbed Miss Muffet's slit and as my index finger found her clit, my thumb glided deeply into her hot wet cunt and I started to fuck her with my thumb in time with her finger fucking Laura. After a few minutes, Miss Muffet stood up and turned to me, grabbing me close and kissing me deeply with her mouth tasting of Laura's honey juices. Her hand went down and found my slit and she started playing with me as her tongue tried to go deep down into my throat.Laura, put her arms around the teacher and grabbing her breasts she pulled her back on to the desk. Miss Muffet lay on her back with her legs dangling down over the edge of the desk. Laura, went and sat on her face and I went down on her slit, tonguing her and getting two of my fingers deep into her twat fucking her hard. Her legs went up and around me, pulling me into her wet steaming mound and her, now flowing juices, covered my face. She bucked and Laura bounced up and down on Miss Muffet's face in obvious pleasure. Still tonguing her hard clit, I inserted another finger into her now gaping hole and fucked her faster as with my other hand I started rubbing my own clit. We were all forming and rhythm and all three of us were soon heading towards a massive climax.However, just before I could finish myself off there was an enormous noise. We leapt apart and found Iain was clambering in through the office window and was being followed by our other friends who had been with us on the camping trip. "Excuse me Miss," said Iain tamely, "but we were all getting rather jealous watching from outside. Diana here had already started to finger herself and I thought, we better come in before someone else along and spies you. Besides, to tell you the truth, I have had fantasies about you since you first arrived, can I have permission to join in, please, er Miss?"And us!" called out our big busted friend Diana and the elvish Sophie. Rugby playing Jamie and David and Tom grinned helplessly at us. Laura and I grinned back, whilst Miss Muffet whose flushed face was soaked in Laura's juices, slowly got off the table and looked at the interlopers. "Well," she said, you better close that window and pull down the blind before we do anything else. And since we are getting to know each other better, you better call me Jess, rather than Miss."Jamie jumped to the window to close it and pulled down the black blind as Tom went and switched on the light. Dave said "Wow, that was an amazing show you three were putting on, my tonker is so hard its hurting."It was the small blonde, innocent looking Sophie who took Jamie in hand and this started the proceedings. She knelt in front of him, undid his belt and freed his throbbing dick. She said, "Turned me on too!" and without a moment's hesitation took Jamie's length deep into her mouth and starting pulling back and forth with her saliva glistening along its length.Naked Jess, our 22-year-old trainee teacher walked over to Iain and grasped his head. "OK, little boy," she said, "let's see what you're made of. " She pushed him back against the wall kissing him deeply, sharing Laura's honey juices with him. She lifted her right leg over his hip and ground her naked mound into his groin. Laura, my nympho sister went over to Diana and started hurriedly undoing her blouse, and then freeing her beautiful boobs from the confines of her bra.Dave and Tom, who were experts in synchronised fucking grabbed me and laid me on the desk. My head went over the end and upside down I saw Dave pull his trousers down and free his bouncing hard-on. Then offered his cock to my mouth, slipping it in deep. Meanwhile, unseen, Tom, undid himself at the other end and started to play his cock against my clit and slit. Wow, I was going to be fucked again!It was difficult to see what else was going on in that small office when you are on your back and a one guy is thrusting deep into your mouth whilst another is thrusting deep into your love tunnel, but there seemed to be no shortage of activity. I grabbed and played with my own breasts as the boys worked their magic, once again getting hotter and hotter and nearer climax.After a few more thrusts, Dave and Tom withdrew and swapped positions. But this time, instead of fucking me, Dave went down with his tongue and Tom started kissing me and tweaking my nipples. Then he was massaging his dick over my tits, pre-cum oozing lubricating oil from the tip of his penis.I finally managed to look to one side and saw Iain fucking Jess from behind, her arms on the office wall and her breasts swinging lose in rhythm and Iain long strong thrusts.Sophie was naked and clasping herself around Jamie's neck as he thrust up into her from below. Diana and Laura were in 69 with mouths clasped tight into each other's cunts with Diana on top. I started to sit up. "Dave, Tom" I said, "Laura needs a good fuck!"Willing to oblige they went over to the two girls.Now, later as we walked back towards the school bus, I was feeling flushed and fulfilled. My love tunnel was still hot from all the fucking, my clit was still hard and humming. I have to admit I was having a little difficulty walking straight. We were now wearing track suit bottoms and polo shirts borrowed from Jess, but we no longer needed to make an impression. I was satisfied. We were satisfied, we had just had the best fuck ever.I vividly remembered various parts of the that orgy that would still turn me on, just thinking about them a year later.There was the moment when I was on all fours on the desk with Dave in my mouth and Tom making deep sweeping thrusts into my love tunnel and Dave couldn't hold it any longer and filled my mouth with hot spunk. My beautiful Sophie pushed him out of the way and drove her tongue into my mouth to share a drink of his sperm forcing me on my back and lying on top of me, passionately grinding her hard nipples into mine as Tom now fucked her from behind. I do love sex with Sophie and the memory sharing that cum with her as she approached climax was something I dreamt about in later days.There was the moment when Laura and I were lying side by side with Jamie fucking one of us and then the other whilst we kissed. Then Jamie couldn't hold any longer and coming around came over our tits and the Laura and I were on top of each other massaging the cum into each other's nipples as our bodies slid up and down with the lubricating cum.Then there was the best bit! I was lying on my back the desk with Diana sitting on my face facing away from me whilst I gave her tongue, drinking in her sex. Dave was standing legs astride my head with his dick in Diana's mouth face fucking her making her juices flow freely and she rubbed her clit to climax over my nose. Jess's head was between my legs and she was using her tongue hard on my clit, whilst two fingers were fucking me hard. She was bouncing into me as Tom fucked her from behind. Sophie had my right breast in her mouth and sucked and nipped at my nipples whilst Laura was latched onto my left breast doing the same. Meanwhile Iain fucked Laura from behind and Jamie was ramming his boner into Sophie. It was heaven, it was ecstasy, as every bit of me was singing in sheer lustful joy as everyone fucked everyone to the same rhythm with me in the middle. I started to cum and there was a great chorus of release as everyone else came at the same time in one great orgy of orgasms, hot sperm flooding into Jess, Sophie and Laura's dripping cunts and down Diana's welcoming throat.There was not much to tell after that. Having exhausted our teenage lust, we gradually pulled ourselves together, petted and kissed and washed each other in Jess's shower. Then borrowing clothes from Jess, it was time to go home with fond kisses and hugs and prom

Lorna Plots Revenge on Mr. Brown.In 8 parts, By jane700bond. Listen to the ► Podcast at ExplicitNovels. If you have not followed the story so far, we are bunch of 18 year old's about to leave school and currently on a Duke of Edinburgh Camping trip in beautiful Dorset.Here's my honest account, Lorna.Life at CampEarly to bed and early to rise is the order of the day when you go camping. The flaps of the tent were still open when I awoke naked in a tangle of limbs, the summer sun was already well up in the sky and its heat shining through the canvas made me drowsy, but I had to get up for a pee. So gently removing Sophia's arm from around my neck and unwinding my leg from Tom's I crawled out of the tent naked as the day I was born and headed for a convenient bush to squat behind.Whilst hidden behind the bush, I became aware of a rustle in the undergrowth from someone moving stealthily towards the camp and (surprise!) out popped Mr Brown camera in hand.He crept around to the boy's tent first where Laura and Diana were asleep with Iain and Jamie and pointed and clicked the camera at the sleeping bodies within. He then came towards our tent and I quickly saw that Mr Brown would realise that one of us was missing.I was also rather horrified that he should be taking photos of us at all, especially if they got to our parents. Suddenly very awake I decided the only thing to do was to somehow get the camera off him, but how?He was at the tent door now and could see Sophia sleeping with Dave and Tom. He raised the camera again and in a stage whisper I called out from behind the bush: "Mr Brown!"He stopped with a start and turned towards me. I slowly stood up revealing the top of my naked teenage body to him and smiled coyly as I turned sideways and showed off my tits.He stood still and watched me suspiciously as I slowly walked around the bush and revealing myself fully. I saw him lick his lips.I walked closer to him and he started to whisper "You lot are going to be in big trouble over this you know! What will you mum and dad . . ."I got to him and put a finger to his lips. "Shush!" I said and moving forward cupped his crotch in my hand, slowly moving my thumb up and over his hardening cock. He stood rigid staring down at my chest."I know what you want." I said and pushed my breasts up towards his mouth. His head slowly sank forwards tongue eagerly seeking my boobs whilst the hand holding the camera came down to his side and he slipped it in his pocket.He was then all over me, his hands running wildly around my back and grasping my ass and his mouth eagerly closed around my left breast. "Oh Mr Brown!", I yelled, "Oh Mr Brown!"Looking over his shoulder I saw Diana emerge from the boys tent and I mouthed "Help!" at her. She nodded and as Mr Brown's over-eager tongue moved down my body nipping and licking slowly forcing me back towards the ground she came up behind him and putting a hand between his legs grabbed his balls hard.This stopped him in his tracks. He bent backwards and tried to use his weight to topple Diana underneath him, but she was too fast and skipped to one side and he went down to the ground with a crash that knocked the wind out of him. The noise of the struggle brought out the boys and Diana shouted "Guy ropes!"Tom and Iain loosened some of the ropes from a tent and brought them over with some pegs. Mr Brown was still stuggling for breath as Diana sat on his chest holding his arms and I sat on his legs to hold them down.The boys made quick work of tying his legs together and then stretching his arms out. They pegged him down with the tent pegs, just like Gulliver in Lilliput, for those of you who enjoy literature. Mr Brown was now our prisoner and we were his beautiful, naked, teenage guards.I explained about the camera and Sophia retrieved it from his pocket and she started running through the shots he had taken. She explained that in addition to this morning's shots there were some muzzy ones taken without a flash the night before, but obviously showing the sexual rompings that we had all been enjoying in the lantern light.Diana was still sitting on his chest and lent forward letting her pendulous breasts swing over his face. "Mr Brown does like little girls doesn't he?", she purred, "Do little-little girls like Mr Brown though? Can you fulfil our fantasies if we fulfil yours?"Then putting her hand behind her she started to fondle Mr Brown's crotch again. She then shifted forward and thrust her cunt towards his nose so he could smell her sex. Mr Brown moaned and Diana let his nose run up and down her smooth Brazilian. Sophia got the camera and started to take more photographs, explain this to our parents, Mr Brown.Not to be left out I started to undo Mr Brown's trousers and unwound his hardening snake from inside his underpants. Sophia took close-ups as I eased down the foreskin and started rubbing the head of his cock over my nipples.My nympho sister shouted out "Cock!" and came rushing over, she knelt beside us and took his now hardened cock in her mouth. Of course she was showing off and was making slooping and slobbering noises as she gobbled and and sucked. I don't think she was being very gentle with her teeth and Mr Brown whimpered and bucked as her teeth nipped and scratched him.Laura sucking hard with her arse up in the air was too much for Jamie who by now had a massive hard-on. He came up behind her, knelt between her legs, moistened her slit with a lick or two from his tongue, then began to ease his way in and started fucking her doggy style.Iain then came to the other side of Mr Brown and stroked my mouth with his own cock gently pushing my lips open and running it over my teeth. I opened my mouth and and started licking his lollypop. Then, with Laura gasping as Jamie fucked her from behind and she mouth fucked Mr Brown, I took Iain's cock into my mouth caressing it with deep and long strokes.This proto orgy might be a little difficult to envisage, so I think I better summarize!Mr Brown was lying tied to the ground and Diana was sitting hard on his face and letting his tongue work her clit as she ground herself on top of him whilst massaging her own pendulous breasts and moaning.Laura was on one side behind Diana sucking Mr Brown's cock, like only my nympho sister could! At the same time she, being fucked from behind by Jamie.I was sitting prettily on Mr Brown's thighs with my slit got ever hotter and wetter because I was giving Iain a blow job as he stood beside me.Tom at this point decided to join in and walked up to Diana with his cock pointing arrow-like in front of him. He straddled Mr Brown's head and thrust his tool between Diana's lips so Diana could suck him off.The naked Sophia was giggling and photographing us all when Dave lifted her up bodily from behind and attempted to thrust his cock between her legs. Sophia, threw the camera down and guided Dave's cock into her by now slippery tight cunt. Oh fuck, why wasn't I being fucked, I needed cock inside me!Taking Iain out of my mouth I thought I'd get my sis off Mr Brown and try-out his cock for size, but at that moment Laura started to splutter as Mr Brown forced himself up deep inside her mouth and came in a roaring gush, spunk bubbling out between her lips as she could not swallow fast enough to deal with the flow.Laura let Mr Brown's cock free it continued to spurt sperm up and against Diana's back. I grabbed some and started to use it to lubricate my clit rubbing hard and making the world turned red.Iain lifted me up, turned me around and I bent over and touched my toes as he penetrated my now frothing cunt from behind thumping hard against me and pounding fast.I got more of Mr Brown's spunk rubbing myself silly whilst Iain thrust deep. I used the muscles inside me to grip Iain's cock and we established a rhythm. He was hitting my g-spot and I came closer and closer to a double orgasm both from my clit and my vagina.Iain's hands gripped my hips and he started to shout and gasp as I felt him grow bigger inside me. Oh! I came as he came, spurts of hot spunk flowing deep inside me, my clit yammered like a mad thing as I came and came again in floods of pleasure, my juices mixing with Iain's. My knees buckled and Iain and I collapsed in a heap, with him still inside me, spent.Now boys know that after sex they get sensitive willies and Diana was bent on revenge.She had turned around after Mr Brown had come so spectacularly so her arse was now over Mr Brown's head, she used Mr Brown's nose to rub her clit and Dave started to fuck her doggy style his thrusts inches from Mr Browns eyes. She started to play with Mr Brown's cock, gobbling up the last of his cum and then sucking him hard and using her teeth which must have been excruciating for him.Mr Brown struggled helplessly to free himself from his bonds. He bucked to try and release himself, but the thin ropes bit into his ankles and wrists. Diana would not let go of him and roughly played with his balls as Dave kept thrusting her from behind and she rubbed her clit up and down the teacher's nose making herself more and more excited.Mr Brown moaned and groaned in a mixture of ecstasy and agony. Dave then came and Diana squealed as he shot his load into her. After a few moments he pulled back and she sank her cum filled cunt down on Mr Brown's face. "He needs more!", she gasped taking Mr Brown's semi hard from her lips.Sophia disentagled herself from Tom and came eagerly to the job, starting to work on Mr Brown's dick some more.Diana suddenly gave a loud scream and I think Mr Brown had bit her between the legs, anyway she jumped off and away leaving Mr Brown's face a wet and smeary spunky mess.Sophia pulled up her head and holding Mr Brown's cock erect said: "He's come again!"Yep, there was cum oozing from his dick again. My turn I thought and Iain eased out of me with a slippery plop. I grabbed Mr Brown's cock and sucked deeply at his second load of cum, playing and fondling and not letting it go soft whilst I felt Iain's sperm and my cum juices trickle down the inside of my thigh, Umm!, nice cream pie, thanks Iain.Sister Laura, who had by now taken Jamie's load came and knelt by Mr Brown's face, licking off Tom and Diana's love juices whilst whispering to him: "Naughty teachers shouldn't spy on their beautiful sexy pupils should they?" and "Bet you won't ever forget today, darling Mr Brown, your cum was too diddly-lishush. . ." and other such inanities.But we were getting bored with the game and we both soon gave up, leaving him lying there in his rumpled and damp clothes with his trousers open and now softening cock exposed, looking sore and ruddy.Diana told Sophia to get the camera again. She knelt over Mr Brown's legs and surrounded his sore penis with her tits, grasping it between them for a final photographic spectacular.Diana then said to Mr Brown "We need the guy ropes for our tent tonight so we are going to let you go. But if you even think about visiting us again in the night, I will personally castrate you!"Mr Brown gulped and gasped an OK. Then surrounded by the boys, who were more than a match for him, we unpegged him and chased him from the camp site as he tried to adjust his clothing.We all went back to camp and started retrieving our clothes. We all wanted to have a swim and freshen ourselves up, but the river was about half a mile away, so we had to dress before we could get there. We trooped off down the forest track with Diana dawdling in the rear. Suddenly there was a commotion and looking back Mr Brown was there tearing at Diana's clothes and shouting "Bloody bitch!"Jamie, bounded back up the path and landed him a left-hook that laid him out flat. The last we saw of Mr Brown that day was him holding his jaw, as he stumbled up and away into the woods. Poor Mr Brown!Lorna's tale of Revenge and Mr. Brown.Hi this is Lorna, again. We have just got home from a year at university and boy, was that a fucking good time which Laura and I will love to tell you about someday.For those of you who have not read our other adventures, we are identical twins, we are blonde and blue-eyed Barbie Dolls. No, not really Barbies, 'cos we got brains and we got nipples on the points of our rounded breasts and we have clits that need cultivating and pussies that need ploughing. Can you tell we were brought up on a farm?Our skin is tanned a honey colour as we are lucky to have a pool at the farm and so can get a great natural tan. However, since we live with Mum and Dad, the skin under the bikini line is a beautiful alabaster white. We also recently waxed each other (it helps to have help), leaving just a matching narrow landing strip that points straight at our sensitive parts and the rest of our pubis are smooth and soft as a baby's bottom. We have great fun as twins being virtually indistinguishable, except my bra size is 32b and Laura's is 32c. We live on a farm in the county of Dorset near the south coast of England.Anyway, Laura (who I have previously described as a nymphomaniac, not like me ;-)), she suggested that instead of writing about university, which is cum heaven, we would tell you about our last day at school.It was the last day of the school year a half-day, with afternoon free and the morning given over prize-giving, so no lessons, but boring, boring speeches! Unfortunately, we did not win a prize for the school's champion cum swallower (female), nor champion clit teaser (female), nor the girls who could turn on the most guys just by looking at them. Not for the best pairs of nearly matching beautiful breasts and not even for the most beautiful twin sisters! Nah, we had won nothing and prize-giving was going to be dull, dull, dull!The July day dawned sunny and the birds tweeted loudly in the trees, the shotguns echoed in the woods, not strictly true as the shooting season had not started, but I like to wax lyrical and be all poetical:"The sky was a cloudless blue and the day threatened to be steamy,I dreamed of boys all in a line to taste their cum so creamy!"Now schools and uniforms do not take into account the weather, they take into account the uniformity of appearance and never mind the discomfort. Because it was prize-giving, we were ordered, by the head teacher, that we had to be in blouses, skirts and blazers; instead of our comfier summer cottons. Now I am not trying to suggest that we are rebels, but Laura and I decided that we would have some fun.Uniform:1. Green wool blazer, into the wardrobe and there were our blazers from two years earlier which had run out of growing room in the chest/breast department, and our arms stuck out half-way to our elbows.2. Blue/green plaid kilted skirt, from the wardrobe, two skirts from when we were about 14. Being kilts, they both rode high on our gorgeous thighs and split at the side.3. White socks, white pop socks exposing our beautifully turned ankles.4. White Blouses, knotted into a bow under our breasts to create maximum cleavage (we didn't have that much to start with) and to expose our beautiful flat tummies.5. White knickers, fair enough, we could not go commando in those short skirts.6. Shoes black, heels flat, well the bottoms of the heels were flat, weren't they? And they gave us some height, from which to look down!7. Bras, none, the blouses were doing that job.

The Convent Virgin Comes To VisitIn 8 parts, By jane700bond. Listen to the ► Podcast at ExplicitNovels. Swinging forward in time again to the summer, I thought you might want to know about my next adventure with the twins. We had fucked again that day in the field. Well, after 15 minutes lying with twin naked blondes on either side of you; you try and stop getting another hard-on!It wasn't quite as wild as the first time. You could say it had a more gentle and leisurely rhythm, you could also say it was absolutely fantastic and I thought at the time, I would be wanking myself to sleep for years to come just thinking about it, but there were even better times to come. Anyway whilst I was helping Laura and Lorna back on with their clothes (it's very distracting doing up a girls bra when she cannot keep her hands away from rubbing your balls), they invited me over for a swim at the farm the next day.The day dawned, just like the previous day, with gorgeous sunshine and about 11am I was riding my bike towards the Cramwell's farm. Riding a bike is not too easy with a hard-on, but I could not get the memory of those two perfect bodies out of my mind and I was already wondering how we might contrive to have more sex together when I got there. John would probably be out working somewhere, but I bet their mother, Lucy would be there.In fact, when I arrived the girls explained that Lucy had gone out for the day with the twins' younger sister Alice, who was into ponies. They had departed for some sort of Pony Club event and would not be back until the evening.However, their cousin Samantha was staying. The girls were in matching pink bikinis and had been in the kitchen, looking out for me when I arrived and explained with whispered giggles that they were hoping to smuggle me upstairs for ½ hour before Samantha saw me."She's not really the sort who would approve of sex. She's been at a Convent school," Laura explained, "so, she's very pure! She's sunbathing at the moment by the pool, (needs to, poor lamb, she's very pale) so we thought we could show you our bedroom, oh God, I have been feeling randy all morning, just thinking about you coming over. Yesterday was fantastic."Lorna said quietly "I think my sister is a bit of a nympho." and took my hand and then pulled me all the way upstairs.These two girls could best be described as tigers. I would have liked to have described the bedroom, the two single beds, the walls covered in pictures of boy bands and hunky film stars, the nice antique furniture etc., however, as soon as I was in the room Laura (probably a bit louder than sensible) shouted to Lorna "Get him!" and I was pushed onto one of the beds. As fast as lightning, the girls were on top of me, Lorna on my chest and Laura on my legs. I twisted and turned and suddenly all three of us fell off the narrow bed on to the floor in a screaming giggling mess of arms and legs."Shush!" whispered Laura "Sam will hear!"And then, still sitting on top of my legs made a grab for the top of my shorts. Lorna meantime with one leg underneath me and the other wrapped around my neck was pushing her groin into my face.I pulled the bikini bottom aside with my teeth and plunged my tongue into her hot cunt. She screamed. Laura meanwhile had undone the top of my shorts and was plunging my cock into her mouth.‘What about foreplay?' I thought, as the world went misty.Both girls used their free hands to take off their bikini tops and Laura had her bikini bottoms half way down her legs when Samantha walked in, my cock was still rammed well into Laura's mouth, my teeth were teasing Lorna's clit and she was rubbing her breasts. It must have been a wonderful sight for the poor girl to see the three of us on the floor.We froze. Cousin Samantha was a brunette unlike her cousins and smaller at about 5'3", which made her look younger than her 18 years. Petite I think is the term. She was also in a bikini, which showed her pale white skin. She was very pretty with a small pert mouth a few freckles and blue eyes, but, well also pretty flat-chested.She stood there for a moment with a look of total disbelief on her face, "I; I, I heard a scream and came to see if you were alright." She stammered out.Laura slowly let my cock out of her mouth, which was beginning to shrivel with embarrassment. My mouth became unglued from Lorna's clit and Sam took a step further into the room, her face going a fine rose colour.Laura said "Um, Sam, this is Rick. Rick, this is our cousin Sam." Which I thought was pretty cool considering.Sam took another step into the room. "Lucy's not back 'til this evening, is that right?" she asked.Lorna looked at her cousin closely and then answered "Er, yes Cuz," and then holding my now nearly limp cock in her hand asked "Sam, can I introduce you to Rick's dick?"This was becoming unreal. Sam took another step towards us smiled and said "Nice to meet you Dick. Do we shake?""Well, shake is one way of describing it, just come and hold him in your hand." invited Laura. Sam came and knelt beside us. She gently took my cock in her hand and it started to stand up once more. "Wow," said Sam as it grew in her inexperienced hand, "does it taste good?" She asked Lorna."Well, you see that little droplet on the top? Have a quick taste of that." Sam slowly lowered herself and licked my pre-cum with the tip of her tongue."Nice", said Sam and licked again, slowly working her tongue around the still growing crown of my glory.Laura unwound herself from around my neck and got up. Then both she and Lorna together knelt beside Samantha, and slowly massaged her back, while Sam got more adventurous with her tongue. She held my balls in one hand and then started to lick along the full length of my shaft which danced in response to her gentle movements.Then suddenly Sam took me in her small mouth, she went down about two inches and then pulled back, her sharp white teeth gently dragging up the length. I let out a groan. She did it again and then again and then began to get into a rhythm.Lorna and Laura, were still massaging her back. Lorna then undid Sam's bikini top and put a hand on her small left breast and started to massage. Laura's massage went further and further down Sam's back, playing over her bikini bottoms and then down towards her thighs. Her hand slipped between Sam's legs and Sam put her spare hand back, & took Laura's hand and held it there. Laura started slowly to rub Sam's clit through the bikini.Sam went a shade pinker and with a gasp her mouth went down a further inch on my cock. This was getting a bit too exciting for me and I gently clasped my hands on either side of Sam's head and lifted her from her work. I lifted my torso and gently brought my lips her hers and kissed her long and full. Her small perfect lips tasted like cherry. I moved my legs so that she was kneeling between them and put my hands to her small hard nipples and slowly excited them as Sophie had shown me.The kiss ended, and again she moved her mouth down onto my cock. She lifted her bottom in the air and Laura started to tease her fingers between the elastic of her bikini bottom and her skin. Lorna, always the fast mover suddenly just pulled them down revealing Sam's swollen vagina to the girls at the back. Whilst Sam caressed my dick and balls, the twins took turns to use their tongues on the moist hot slit and clit, making her buck and gasp and take gentle nips.Lorna then lay with her back on the floor and parted Sam's legs, moving her head between them. She then lifted herself so she could start licking Sam's clit. Down the line, Laura moved between her sister's legs and started work with her tongue on Lorna. I couldn't believe my eyes. There they were in a line; Sam between my legs sucking me off, Lorna, underneath Sam sucking her and Laura at the back arse in the air sucking Lorna and all of them moaning and bucking. It was too much, I felt the surge and gasped as I came in Sam's mouth, the creamy spunk surging from my cock.There was loads of cum, and Sam released me showing a mouth filled with my cream. She sat on Lorna's face and bucked and screamed in ecstasy as Lorna's work on her clit brought her to her orgasm. I was still shooting and Laura left her position at the back of the line and came around took Sam in her arms and started French kissing her sperm filled mouth. Her hands sought my cock and she took more of the oozing cum and started massaging it into Sam's hard nipples and then her own.The girl's pressed against each other sperm covered breasts sliding over each other as they kissed deeply, sharing and savouring the taste of my cum.Sam's orgasm went on and on and Laura became more and more intense with her deep kissing. I put my left hand between her legs, found her hot clit and rubbed hard and fast. I then worked first one finger and then another into the hot vagina whilst using my thumb on her clit. My other hand cupped Sam's small  ass cheek. Lorna was using Sam's juices to lubricate her own clit and soon both twins were near to coming in their excitement. Even though I'd just cum, the sight of the three girls was just too much for me and I felt ready to start again. My spunk covered dick was hard and eager. I got up and moved around to where Lorna lay on the floor with her head under Sam's ass. I parted her legs and lifted her up so I could sink my shaft deep into her glistening cunt, the spunk adding to the lubrication and my dick went smoothly in to the depths. I took long leisurely plunges, almost pulling right out between each dive. My hands were on Lorna's breasts, I teased her nipples between my finger and thumbs.Sam, keeled over off Lorna's face, finally spent, to lie flat on her back, her head beside Lorna's. Lorna lifted herself up so I could kiss her wet face and lick off Sam's juices. Beside her Laura came and sat on Sam's face and started working her own clit and Sam's tongue went deep into her vagina. The twins were besides themselves and after a few minutes came together juices expelling from their cunts, groaning and moaning. The feel of Lorna's orgasm on my cock as I was deep inside her and her hot juices flowing made me come again, my sperm leaping deep in the dark velvet tunnel of her vagina.As the heaving subsided, I lay panting on top of Lorna. Laura lifted herself off Sam's face and shaking a bit, came and sat beside Lorna and me, massaging the muscles of my back. Sam too got up, her face glistening wet from Laura's orgasm. She squatted beside me and lifted my face so she could kiss me again, long and deep, the scent of sex all around. I gently moved out of Lorna who gasped as the bulbous head of my cock withdrew.Sam pulled me up, kissing me deeply and desperately all the time and then pushed me back onto the carpet and sat astride my stomach. As she kissed, her hand went behind her and she started playing with my semi-hard cock. Finally she came up for air."Rick," she asked "do you think Dick has enough energy left to fuck me? You see, I've never been fucked and although convent girls know how to mess around in the dorm at night, I have never had a boy. I just loved the taste of your sperm, and I just loved sharing it with Laura, I just loved having Lorna making me come with her tongue. But I could really do with Dick inside me and; for god's sake, a good long almighty Fuck!"Lorna and Laura both burst out laughing and Sam hurled herself at them with a scream! Even though she was small, she wrestled well and soon the three girls were a complete tangle of arms and legs as they writhed together on the floor, Sam shouting "What's so funny about wanting to be fucked!" and the twins laughing louder than ever.I laughed with them, but after a minute I got up and lifted Sam bodily out of the tangle and plonked her on the bed. She lay with her back on the duvet cover and her slim legs open. Dick was getting ready for action again, but first I dropped to my knees and put my head between her legs and started to work on opening her vagina with my tongue. Lorna came and sat beside Sam, and whilst I did my warm-up job, she caressed her and kissed her. Laura came under the bed and took my cock in her mouth, making it swell as she sucked deep upon the shaft. Sam put her hands between Lorna's legs and started to play with her fingers up her cunt as I stuck my tongue deeper into hers.Trying to concentrate on Sam with Laura sucking away was difficult, but as I gently put a finger into Sam's warm slit, I was surprised when it came to a halt instead of sliding in.I stopped puzzled, and drew back. Sam, who had been kissing Lorna, let go of Lorna's mouth and gasped "I'm still a virgin! Be careful, but please, please fuck me! God I've fantasised about a good fuck for years, please!"My cock escaped from Laura's mouth and I stood up and it came to the same height as Sam's vagina as she lay sideways on the bed. I gently rubbed the head of my cock around her widening hole, lubricating it with her juices and Laura's saliva. Then very slowly I nudged my cock towards that inner barrier. The girls all stilled and Sam whispered "Go on, take me." I pushed and felt the hymen give, Sam whimpered. I withdrew and then pushed again, further in this time and the hole widened to take me. After withdrawing and pushing back seven or eight times my cock was fully inside her. Sam's legs were up on my shoulders and there was a tear glistening in her eye. "Fuck me." she whispered. So I started a gentle rhythmic pumping.Lorna whispered to Sam "Grasp his cock with your muscles, the muscles inside you." I felt a tightening. "Grasp and release as he goes in and out." said Laura "It makes it much better!" Sam soon got the idea and we started to pick up speed. Lorna started massaging Sam's small breasts with one hand and rubbing her clit with the other. Laura was still under the bed below my thrusting cock. She started to use her tongue around the edge of Sam's vagina as I went in and out. Her hand came up and started cupping my balls as we fucked. This caused Sam and me to go even faster, Sam crying out with pleasure "Oh fuck me. Oh! Fuck me. Oh Fuck wow, aargh, ah, ah aha Fuck!"The sheer ecstasy of Sam and I as we fucked with Laura and Lorna played and teased with us was more than I can describe. Sam's cunt was hot and tight and her inexperienced muscles pulled me deeper into her, she bucked as Lorna played with her engorged clit. There were bubbles in my head as I felt Laura's tongue lubricating my shaft, as it went in. I stood up straight now and only Sam's shoulders were on the bed and her legs were wrapped around me. I have never felt anything like it, and I'd come twice already!I leant down and pulled Sam off the bed and held her to me my cock deep inside her. She put her arms around my shoulders and kissed me long and deep and we started to fuck again, Sam's ass in the air, her breasts rubbing up and down on my chest and she moved with the rhythm. Lorna and Laura played around below us, putting tongues and fingers into the gap between my cock and that hot, hot cunt.Then it was back on the bed again, the final gasping red misty finish and I fucked Sam as hard as she could wish and we both came in long blinding orgasm. I pulled back and slid to the floor and Sam's legs dropped over the side of the bed, beads of spunk came seeping from her cunt. This was too much for Laura who came to lick away the creamy mess from Sam's neat bush. Lorna, spotting some still oozing from my cock, knelt on the floor and mischievously licked it away. "It's ridiculous, but I guess I'm not going to get a fuck this morning then." She said and gave me a great smile."Maybe a swim in the pool to cool down for a bit might be a good idea." I replied.To be continued, in part 3.By jane700bond for LiteroticaThe Farmer's Twin Daughters: Part 3Samantha's Deflowering.In 8 parts, By jane700bond. Listen to the ► Podcast at ExplicitNovels.Hi, my name is Sam and I have just hi-jacked this story from Rick, who made the mistake of leaving what he had written about me, Lorna and Laura open on the computer in his bedroom.Well those nympho blonde twin cousins of mine are going to make their corrections to history after I've had my go.Firstly, I would like to correct a few facts about myself. Yes, I am about 5'3 and petite, with smallish breasts (32b). People do think I am younger than I am and that makes it difficult sometimes at the pub, or at the cinema. My skin is naturally pale and I still have a few (sexy) freckles on my nose. However, I am really a dark auburn colour rather than brunette and I'm actually nearer 20 than 18. Being a bit short-sighted, I also wear glasses, a nice pair of Dee & Gees. And as for Rick breaking my hymen, I think not. Anyone notice a lack of blood in Rick's story? Boys can be so ignorant.Anyway, we girls are not really annoyed with Rick for what he wrote, in fact reading it was a bit of a turn-on and, oh, um will you just excuse us a few minutes.Phew! OK, concentrate. I do have to admit that Rick was my first boy, (still is my only boy), but I have had sex with a girl before and it was the first of those little adventures where that precious barrier of skin got broken. No hang on, there was a boy there too, ooh! It's not that easy to get things in the right order, so I'll just explain what happened then and then I'll rewrite randy Rick's story about that morning at the farm with the three of us.It was the Easter holiday before my A Level exams, which is what we take to get into university in England, oh, distractions. Anyway, I went to stay with my friend Dora (adorable Dora!) who was a school chum of mine. We both had our birthday on the same day and had had a crazy joint 18th party at my parents' place a few weeks earlier. Maybe our horoscopes made us similar which is why we got on so well.We were very close at the Convent School, thought by our friends to be a bit of an item, but beyond friendly cuddles and girly kisses, I, for one, had never thought about doing anything more. Anyway, Dora lived in Winchester, and we had spent the day looking at the ancient cathedral and doing a bit of shopping.I'll start the story in the evening after supper. We had helped Dora's Mum and Dad clear up; & chatted for a bit. Then we went up to Dora's room to watch TV and mess with each other's hair. Mine is short, but rich, dark and thick and curly; Dora's is a blonde and fine and cut just above her neck. She often put it up with a hair clip, to stop it getting in her eyes.I ought to explain that Dora lives in a big old town house which is tall and narrow. Her parents have their bedroom two floors below hers, and her brother has his room on the floor between. Her bedroom and bathroom are in a sort of attic. Dora said that it was where the servants lived in the olden days, which is why there is a door at the bottom of the staircase going up, to give the family privacy.We had been up there about an hour when we heard the door to the staircase and Dora's brother, Ian; knocked on the bedroom door. He came in with his friend Bob who he introduced to us. It was I suppose about 10 o'clock by then. Ian was a couple of years older than Dora and both the boys smelt as if they had been drinking too much beer. I was not really interested in Ian, who I thought a bit rough. He was nothing like his sister and after a few remarks, I just ignored him.Bob though, couldn't take his eyes off Dora. He sat on the bed and tried his best to be am

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Do you know the Muffin Man? Well, we might. This week we share the history behind those nursery rhymes and fairy tales we had drilled into our heads. Those sweet verses had nothing sweet about them.  For dinner, we shared Shepherds Pie and for dessert, we had blueberry cream cheese muffins. These treats would've had Miss Muffet off her tuffet. We washed it all down with Monte Rio Cellars Pinkette Rose as all modern fairy tales should end.  Time stamp: 28:03 Check out our linktree for links to our socials and ways to listen and support our podcast: The Crime Diner Podcast or call/text us some time  6093003094 This week we also got to work with some other podcasts we think you should check out! You can find them here: Full Circle (The Podcast)  Where did we get our info from?  Why we need fairy tales Fairy Tales Based on True Stories The true story of the Pied Piper  A Moderow Moment: The real Pied Piper of Hamelin Beauty And The Beast Real Couple Inspired True Story Do You Know The Muffin Man? He Was A Serial Killer Who Preyed on Kids  Was ‘Muffin Man' Song a Warning to Kids About 16th-Century Serial Killer? Pied Piper of Hamelin  What did we eat?  Shepard's Pie Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins What did we drink? Monte Rio Cellars Pinkette Rose

Chelsea & Grace teach each other about two art forms steeped in cultural history. Join them as they travel from Japan to North America and dive into the stories behind some of the world's most well-known crafts. Maybe little Miss Muffet didn't have anything to be frightened about after all. https://www.wernative.org/ Akta Lakota Museum & Cultural Center- http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/PageServer?pagename=alm_homepage Talk to us! twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodevegirls instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegoodeveninggirls/ tiktok: @thegoodevegirls Meet Me In Forks iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-me-in-forks/id1536002186 Meet Me In Forks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1bg7cusgycBhIFFguMf8k7

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Well, they've ploughed, They've sown, they've harrowed him in Threw clouds upon his head Till these three men were satisfied John Barleycorn was dead They've let him lie for a long long time Till the rains from heaven did fall And little sir John sprang up his head And so amazed them all They let him fly till the midsummer's day Till he looked both pale and wan, oh Then little Sir John has grown a long long beard And so became a man They have hired men with the scythes so sharp To cut him off at the knee, They rolled and they tied him around the waist Serving him most him barbarously They hired men with the sharp pitchforks To prick him to the heart And the loader he has served him worse than that For he's bound him to the cart Well, they've wheeled him 'round and 'round the field Till they came onto a barn And there they made their solemn oath Concerning a Barleycorn They hired men with the crab tree sticks To split him skin from bone, yeah But the miller he has served him worst and bad For he ground him between two stones Well there's beer all in the barrel And brandy in the glass, But little old sir John with his nut-brown bowl Proved the strongest man at last John Barleycorn, throw him up, throw him up! Now the huntsman, he can't hunt the fox Nor loudly blow his horn And the tinker he can't mend his pots Without John Barleycorn, John Barleycorn, John Barleycorn Barleycorn, Barleycorn John Barleycorn, John Barleycorn     The Night Pat Murphy Died   Oh the night that Paddy Murphy died, is a night I'll never forget Some of the boys got loaded drunk, and they ain't got sober yet; As long as a bottle was passed around every man was feelin' gay O'Leary came with the bagpipes, some music for to play That's how they showed their respect for Paddy Murphy That's how they showed their honour and their pride; They said it was a sin and shame and they winked at one another And every drink in the place was full the night Pat Murphy died As Mrs. Murphy sat in the corner pouring out her grief Kelly and his gang came tearing down the street They went into an empty room and a bottle of whiskey stole They put the bottle with the corpse to keep that whiskey cold That's how they showed their respect for Paddy Murphy That's how they showed their honour and their pride; They said it was a sin and shame and they winked at one another And every drink in the place was full the night Pat Murphy died About two o'clock in the morning after empty'ing the jug Doyle rolls up the ice box lid to see poor Paddy's mug We stopped the clock so Mrs. Murphy couldn't tell the time And at a quarter after two we argued it was nine That's how they showed their respect for Paddy Murphy That's how they showed their honour and their pride; They said it was a sin and shame and they winked at one another And every drink in the place was full the night Pat Murphy died They stopped the hearse on George Street outside Sundance Saloon They all went in at half past eight and staggered out at noon They went up to the graveyard, so holy and sublime Found out when they got there, they'd left the corpse behind! That's how they showed their respect for Paddy Murphy That's how they showed their honour and their pride; They said it was a sin and shame and they winked at one another And every drink in the place was full the night Pat Murphy died Oh the night that Paddy Murphy died, is a night I'll never forget Some of the boys got loaded drunk and they ain't been sober yet; As long as a bottle was passed around every man was feelin' gay O'Leary came with the bagpipes, some music for to play That's how they showed their respect for Paddy Murphy That's how they showed their honour and their pride; They said it was a sin and shame and they winked at one another And every drink in the place was full the night Pat Murphy died     Great to be a Pirate   Soon you'll be a dead man   Ain't it great to be a pirate, laddie To sail the seas and to end just like your daddy Draw your cutlass, spark your pistol's flash pan Steal gold to spend before you are a dead man soon you'll be a dead man.   Welcome to the ship, you're now one of the crew We've lots of fun since we have so much to do We've sails to mend, and decks for which to swab A bilge to pump, and lots of other jobs   There's lots of ropes, a-ready for the climbing We need a nesting' crow, since our last he went deck divin' And if you find, in Hell you are a doubter We're always runnin' short, of monkeys for the powder   Down in the galley, the bread is cooked with raisins To hide the maggots, in the flower Cookie's raisin' The water's going bad, in the barrels where its keepin' The rum is getting stronger, since the First Mate's heads been steepin'   In every port, the ladies there are waitin' To take the gold, from each man whose loins are achin' Then back to sea, to start it all again Or face the gallows, and become a freer man   all together tenor and bass finish with ""for soon you'll be a dead man.""   Ain't it great, to be a pirate, Laddie To sail the seas, and to hang just like your daddy Draw your cutlass, spark your pistol's flash pan Steal gold to spend, for soon you'll be a dead man for soon you'll be a dead man.     Wild Mountain Tyme   Oh, the summertime is comin' And the trees are sweetly bloomin' And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the purple heather Will you go? Lassie, will you go? And we'll all go together To pick wild mountain thyme All around the purple heather Will you go? Lassie, will you go? I will build my love a tower By yon pure and crystal fountain Yes and on it I will lay All the flowers of the mountain Will you go? Lassie, will ya go? And we will all go together To pick wild mountain thyme All around the purple heather Will you go? Lassie, will you go? If my true love won't come with me Then I would surely find another To pick wild mountain thyme All around the purple heather Will you go? Lassie, will ya go? And we will all go together To pick wild mountain thyme All around the purple heather Will you go? Will you go? Lassie will you go?     The Man in the Moon   The man in the moon dropped in last night He and Miss Muffet stopped in for a bite They said little boy blue was out for the night Chasing cows through the Milky Way They ask my opinion on kippers and kings And did I think trouble went around like a ring Did you ever hear such a curious thing Did you think it would make me cry I say to myself down and said where did you go Why did you leave as I started to grow They both shake their heads and softly said no It’s a trick of perspective you see Like all the king’s horses and all the kings men You’ve been marching away since this story began You went straight away in search of an end For something you thought might be Now I sit at a desk while my dreams all die The telephone rings, the debts pile high While I’d rather be somewhere up in the sky Singing songs with the man in the moon Twinkle twinkle little star How I wonder what you are Op above the world so high A diamond in the sky They both smiled and stood and said thanks for the tea But they had an appointment at a quarter to three They said look them up if by chance I was free They’d be happy to shine on down So I’m sleeping out in the yard tonight And I don’t care if the midges may bite For the stars overhead are a beautiful sight And the moon is shining down So when you sit at your desk in your dreams all die The telephone rings and the debts pile high Wouldn’t you rather be up in the sky Singing songs with the man in the moon Oh what a wonderful tune Singing songs with the man on the moon.       Bonnie Ship the Diamond   The Diamond is a ship, my lads For the Davis Strait we're bound The quay it is all garnished With bonnie lasses 'round Captain Thompson gives the order To sail the ocean wide Where the sun it never sets, my lads Nor darkness dims the sky For it's cheer up my lads Let your hearts never fail For the bonnie ship the Diamond Goes a-hunting for the whale Along the quay at Peterhead The lasses stand aroon Wi' their shawls all pulled around them And the saut tears runnin' doon Don't you weep, my bonnie wee lass Though you be left behind For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice Before we change our mind For it's cheer up my lads Let your hearts never fail For the bonnie ship the Diamond Goes a-hunting for the whale Here's a health to the Resolution Likewise the Eliza Swan Three cheers for the Battler of Montrose And the Diamond, ship of fame We wear the trousers o' the white The jackets o' the blue When we get back to Peterhead We'll hae sweethearts enou' For it's cheer up my lads Let your hearts never fail For the bonnie ship the Diamond Goes a-hunting for the whale It will be bright both day and night When the Greenland lads come hame Our ship full up with oil, my lads And money to our name We'll make the cradles for to rock And the blankets for to tear And every lass in Peterhead sing ""Hushabye, my dear"" For it's cheer up my lads Let your hearts never fail For the bonnie ship the Diamond Goes a-hunting for the whale For it's cheer up my lads Let your hearts never fail For the bonnie ship the Diamond Goes a-hunting for the whale     We are Ye Banished Privateers   Ye Banished Privateers In a filthy old tavern in the port of Belfast There sat a drunken laddie, he was tall as a scooner's mast He said ""My name is Charles and I am your king An' my royal arse on your ship you shall bring!"" Well I said ""You sure can swagger, but a king you are not"" And if I had that fucker here, I'd sure have him shot! ""But I need one more swabber, and we're leavin' tonight And you'll find the pay is good, can you sail, can you fight."" We are Ye Banished Privateers We are King Charlie's rovers, we're sailors besmeared We are Ye Banished Privateers We'll be hanged by the neck if near England we steer But Charlie was a weak one, a real worthless prick He threw up all the time 'cause the salt made 'em sick And when we were plundering a rich merchant ship He ran into hiding, trembling his lip But sea legs can grow on the weakest of lads It turned out some talent in fencing I had Once I grew fond of the pirate charade I'd be the first to dive into the fray We are Ye Banished Privateers We are King Charlie's rovers, we're sailors besmeared We are Ye Banished Privateers We'll be hanged by the neck if near England we steer We roamed all over the seven seas We plundered wherever there riches may be From ye coast of Tortuga to ye shores of Cape Horn We looted n' pillaged both poor and well born For each passing year an' each bottle of rum Had Charlie a more vicious pirate become One with the laddies so fearful and great He advanced to the rank of first mate We are Ye Banished Privateers We are King Charlie's rovers, we're sailors besmeared We are Ye Banished Privateers We'll be hanged by the neck if near England we steer But each thing so good, must come to an end And Charlie a letter from England was sent It turned that rascal was truly our king He returned from his exile during the spring I gave them my blessing to rove n' I said ""A yearly wager in gold you'll be paid But back home to England you cannot return For you are the scum of the Earth I have learned!"" We are Ye Banished Privateers We are King Charlie's rovers, we're sailors besmeared We are Ye Banished Privateers We'll be hanged by the neck if near England we steer We are Ye Banished Privateers We are King Charlie's rovers, we're sailors besmeared We are Ye Banished Privateers We'll be hanged by the neck if near England we steer We are Ye Banished Privateers We are King Charlie's rovers, we're sailors besmeared We are Ye Banished Privateers We'll be hanged by the neck if near England we steer!

Podcast Episode – Michael de Souza Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Aquatic Mentors podcast. It's great to have you onboard, I'm your host Katrina van Eyk and today we're going to be talking to the amazing Michael de Souza. Now Michael de Souza is a Caribbean born man who lives in London. He's fantastic swim teacher, who's using his background to expand and encourage kids to swim in a really fun and exciting way. So, we talked today with Michael about how he learned to swim and how his journey started and what he brings to the swimming industry and to the kids that he teaches. So, Michael's had a lot of time teaching celebrities, children to swim. So, quite a few celebrities in London and around the UK, got him to teach their children to swim and they had a lot of farmers, a lot of entertainment, a lot of joking and a lot of rhymes brought into his teaching and we talk about the future and what he sees for it. And we also talk about his amazing talents as a writer. Now Michael wrote books about a mouse called Rastamouse and his crew Da Easy Crew and his books are fantastic, and they have been made into a TV series, which is played here in Australia called Rastamouse. He is now developing other books that are related to swimming as is one of his main passions and I really can't wait to be able to read them and show them to my students and my children. So, I hope you really enjoy this episode. I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot from it. He has a lot of wisdom and knowledge to share with us, but I've also left the little sacred in the end of the episode for you, just for a bit of laughs. Alright, enjoy it. And we started at podcasts with Michael de Souza and we are asking him where he started his journey and swimming. How did I start my swimming? Yes, your journey in swimming. Well, basically as a self-taught swimmer, I was very, very scared of swimming, petrified actually and, I eventually taught myself. That's how I got into swimming, just teach myself. Wow, good work. So, you just threw yourself in the deep end and off you went. Well, I wouldn't say deep end. I would say very much the shallow end. Good point. Do you find that helps you when you are teaching other kids that are scared? Well, absolutely, totally and completely, because I would say I understand fear of water very, very, very well. Like I can recognize it from 500m, to be honest with you, I've seen it in all forms, guises. People pretend with ego and they say I'm all right, but, you know, because I know it couldn't have been anyone more frightened than myself in the water. So, you know, I more say to myself that I'm more about someone that eradicates fear as opposed to just being a swimming teacher, specialising in eradicated fear. Wow, I really like that. That's a good way of putting it, eradicating the fear from swimming. What a good idea. What's been your biggest lesson that you've learned through swimming? I think what I've learned that it's a great equalizer. It doesn't matter what you look like, sex, age, height, build it doesn't matter. Once you got the love of the water, anyone could really enjoy it and look wonderful in water. Perfect! I really liked that and I feel the same and I know on land I'm not so elegant, but once I'm in the water, I feel as elegant as dolphin and a mermaid and that's the same for everyone, I think. Absolutely, yeah. That's one thing I've definitely done. And what's been your biggest highlight of your swimming journey? There were a couple of things, right? One student, people was said that he didn't concentrate and what not. Anyway, after teaching him, he entered this new competition in Spain, held by the King of Spain and he won a gold medal. People, found it difficult to teach him, but I didn't find it difficult at all. That is the main one really. And then the biggest thing for me was going to Sri Lanka after the tsunami in 2005, 2006, I was invited over there to teach 69 children to get them into the water. It's as a big highlight. Wow, 69. That would be just amazing, the whole fear factor involved in that would just be amazing to be able to push them through that and get them in. Yeah, completely and the thing is, some of them hadn't been in water before. Some of them were going to return to the water, but equally as well, they've never been in a swimming pool and fortunately for us, there was a, one of the people that sponsored me. She had a friend, I think his name is Jeffery Bauer, an architect. He owned a property in Sri Lanka. So, I asked him if we could use the swimming pool and we got the students in there. It's the first time they'd ever been in a swimming pool and I managed to get 65 of them in that week in the swimming pool in the deep end. Wow, that's fantastic. Yeah, it was fantastic. That's great and that shows a lot to the power of swimming and your teaching skills and what you've been able to do to be able to get people in there, and especially not coming from Sri Lanka and having to deal with sort of the cultural background and be able to get them in the water and get them skills. That's fantastic. Yeah, it is quite interesting as well, because obviously there was a language barrier, but what I decided to do was try to have a common language that neither of us knew too great, which was Italian. So, when they did something, I'd say ‘Fantastico and Bravo' and they loved it. What a great way of looking at it. I would have never thought of something like that. Yeah, because they don't speak my language, I don't speak their language. Do you know what I mean? I thought let's meet in the middle, you know, it's like that. Yep, oh wow, so smart. So, no wonder the kids relate to you so well to be able to think outside the box like that. Yeah, that's what you got to do with children. You know, you have to, you have to think outside the box also, it mustn't be predictable. Cause I think when you are predictable swimming could be a bit boring, you know? Yeah, that's right. And that's the thing I think for teachers, a lot of swimming has to be repetitive because that's how kids at that age learn. But it's about being repetitive with the skills, but the way you teach it being different. Absolutely. Look, the thing is right. At the end of the day, when you're swimming, your arms bends and straightens, your legs bend and straighten and they'll kick up and they don't do much else. So, it's how many different ways you can persuade someone to do that. So, I've been dealing with children, their whole world is about play. You've got massive scope there. So, you know, it's just a blank canvas, really? That you can fill up. That's brilliant. Wow, that's great thinking. And that is it. They are a blank canvas. Swimming is something that we can fill their lives with and expand in so many ways. It becomes, you know, a lot of people I've spoken to have said that swimming, it's not just confidence in the water. It's confidence in their whole life as well. Most definitely. It seemed to me like you were gonna say that. And I said, if you weren't, I would have said it because there's been many, many occasions where I've had taught children and the parents have said to me, listen, it's made such a difference right across the board is lifted up their confidence in every aspect of their life, which is brilliant. Yeah, it is great. And I find that here in Australia, because we're such a water based society that, there's so many different aquatic sports, and even, people go on holidays to the beach, people go on holidays to the rivers and they water ski and a jet boat and they do all sorts of things like that. I think having that skill and that confidence in the water, they can then do so many other activities, whether they'd be water-based or whether they're not the, they can feel confident and know that they're going to be safe while they're participating. Yes. Yeah, exactly. So, was there anyone that played a big role in your swimming journey? Like a mentor or family member? Yeah. Well, when I looked at that question, I thought there were two people that influenced me and they were both when I was in primary school, one was one of my peers, Tony Nash. He was an English fellow and you know, when we come from the Caribbean, obviously none of us can swim very well, but he was like the original little English fish. He was a proper little fish. He swam good, he dived well plus he looked good in his trunks. The other person that really was a massive influence was a teacher called Mr. Limerick. He was from Australia and in our primary school every Friday, he used to show us real to real life films of Sydney, films of Australian divers, swimmers, Mexican cliff divers and that's where I got my love for diving and swimming. Cause I loved diving. Anything to do the water by that time. Yeah, it was funny. Cause it was the first time I'd met an Australian. This was like 60, 65, 66. So, he made a good impression for all of Australia then? Absolutely. Most definitely. Oh, phew. That's good. So, you overcame your fear of swimming quite early. I gathered that it was later in life, teenager or going into your twenties, but it sounds like you overcame that fear earlier. So, quite early. I was nine years old. The thing is I was just persevering because I mean I loved it and by that time, I started loving a lot of television programs that was sea based. Scuba diving programs. I was fascinated and even another person was Esther Williams, you know, the American Hollywood actress. I liked her swimming films. Yeah, I loved doing that. It was just such a fantasy. The thing about swimming in the water it's so magical and I say it's the closest on earth we going to get to flying or to the sensation we are going to get to flying. Good point, I like that and that is true. It just feels like you're flying. And when you're in the water and the whole freedom of movement, and the fact that, if you do have difficulty on land, it's just dissipates in the water. Most definitely and the best example I can give you of that was I had to teach a young girl once, she was autistic. So, she wouldn't really look at you at all, never mind talk. So, the first lesson I followed her all around the pool, she kept walking. I followed her all around the pool, right. And the last five minutes I managed to engage with her, I got under the water. So, the next lesson instinctively, I don't know why. It was only a second lesson. I took her to the deep end, right. We went to the deep end. I went in the water, she came next to me, held onto the side and then she let go. She submerged herself and was just looking up to the surface in a dream state and from that moment on, she could swim in the deep end. She learned very, very quickly within like three weeks. You could see she was in a, a real peaceful place. Cause it's so quiet under there and with the Autistic condition it's the noise and all that, that they find sometimes very difficult to deal with. That is it. That's something I say when I teach new swim teachers coming through, especially with autism, they are attracted to the water. It is calming and peaceful for them and it is somewhere, if you do have an autistic child who wonders, they will look for water because that is that calming and peaceful atmosphere for them. It becomes more of a concern that we have to teach them to swim so that they're safe around the water. But to be able to see that in her eyes and see that in her face that it becomes such a dream for here and relaxed. Yes. It was a very moving experience for me. It was very moving because I thought, wow, we look it at as sometimes we take life for granted and the simplest things you take for granted is for instance, even a little moment of peace, and real tranquillity. We don't often get that. So right. Very, very true. And something like now when we're in lockdown, over in Australia, we're just coming out of it. But yeah, that peacefulness and that calm it's, it's something we've all been craving. It's great we can bring that through in aquatics. Yes. So, with all your training and all the wisdom that you've had and all the experiences you've had in your time as a swim teacher, what advice would you give to a new swim teacher coming out now? What I would say the first thing is make sure that you love your subject and you have the attitude that you want to pass on the love of the subject. Not feature anyone just pass on the love of it and also remember, the most important thing initially is to develop a relationship with the child quickly, make them feel at ease, make them feel that you're going to be a friend of theirs. They're not there to perform or be put under any sort of pressure. You're there to help them have a very loving, fun experience. Good point, I really like that. And I think that's the thing, I know for me, you do get that relationship with kids that you do become like a friend to them and if you can put them at ease, the whole process of swimming and learning to swim becomes a lot easier for them. Absolutely and I'll tell you one thing as well. I think what I've found has been lacking in a lot of teachers over the years that I've observed, right. They seem to be a bit worried about not making themselves look ridiculous in front of a child. You know that one of the things I would say to children, you know, is I don't want you to splash me. Well, you know, what's coming next don't you. Yeah. Especially if it's a little child that's nervous because children want a little power. They want the power over adults to do something that an adult will make you sit up and listen. So, to me, the first thing is be prepared to make yourself look ridiculous. I like that, it is so true. And I find that all the time. It's just, it makes them relaxed. It's a lot of fun and who doesn't want to giggle while you're working. Exactly because look, I'll tell you the driving force for me Katrina with swimming, right. I'd said I'd watch swimming teachers previously, right. And I said, you know what, children play all the time and every opportunity to play they'll take it, yeah. Yet there was so many come to the swimming lessons that were stiff, they were rigid, they weren't laughing and they weren't joking in any form, yeah. I said, no, I wont a child to be able to play in the environment, but obviously to be competent, be safe and be confident, yeah. So, don't be stupid things just for the sake of play. Play safely, be aware. So that's what I wanted to make. Be able to play in any environment wet or dry. Yeah, and that's right. My mentor, Joanne Love. She's been working with children and she's done work on the psychology side and it's been interesting. She just put an article out today on her LinkedIn about the fact that kids are looking for that play. There not looking for that competition or, you know, having to be the best. They actually want to enjoy their swimming, whether it be competitive kids or whether it be learn to swim. The whole point of getting in that water is to be free and to be able to enjoy it. Exactly. Exactly. And to me, you know, when I became a teacher, a swimming teacher I just thought I'm really, truly blessed because I've got this opportunity now to present as much fun as possible from a totally, totally different perspective, you know, just take the children off guard, totally. I like that, that's right. They don't know what's coming then. No, that's right. They're done. And you're building resilience in them because they have to do, be able to deal with every situation. Exactly. You know, I always like to test them and mess about with the stuff. So, I mean, if I meet a child that they might be just alright at swimming, just a little bit, they might need a lot of technique or they need a bit more training than they think. So, I normally test them and say, listen, do you know a lot about swimming? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright. I said, I'll tell you, what could you tell me how to do the crazy crocodile? They don't know what the crazy crocodile is, Katrina. Do you know what it is? No. It's the professor splash, swimming stroke. I shall describe it to you and see if you can recognize it, okay. Yes, please. Right, you bend your arm like a boomerang, you stretch it like an Orangutan, kick awhile, turn and smile. That's the crazy crocodile. Fantastic! Yeah, that's the works of Professor Splash. The kids would love that. That would be so entertained by it. They enjoy it and they do it. That's why I say my success rate is very, very high and children learn very quickly. Cause my aim, when anyone comes to me to swim is to teach him to swim in the first five minutes. Wow. That's it? That's always been my target. Five minutes, we learned to swim, get rid of the fear. Then let's get cracking and do some stuff. Five minutes, and you've had great success with that. Put it this way. Most children that I've taught learn to swim within the first half hour, because it doesn't take long because the fear, I know the fear between the nose and the mouth. Well, how long does it take to sort that out? Not long. Oh, wow. I've never thought about it that way. That's great and that's it? It is just sorting out that fear and making them comfortable when then it all falls into place from there. Yeah. Cause than they'll do anything. They'll do anything. That's what I say. So, for instance, this is a point where the teacher can be ridiculous for instance, right? You say, all right, when they reach a certain level that they could maybe do a handstand, right, in the water. You do one as a teacher, but you make sure it looks ridiculous. You lose your balance and all this business, you know. Then you get them to show you and you're applauding. Yeah. I was reading something the other day and it was Gary Vaynerchuk. He's a personal development speaker from America and he was saying things like in his upbringing, his mother overpraised him for things like opening the door for someone else and things like that. And yeah, that's it, it's about giving them confidence in praising them when they do something really well and like you said, if you put yourself out there and look like a bit of a nuff. You can then praise them, and they think they're really special because they've bet the teacher in some way. Yeah, exactly. You know, cause one of the things I tried to do as well, I make a lot of things up. As you can see the crazy crocodile, and all this bit, right. But then equally, now I say to the children, when we go in there, you show me a stroke. They show me a swim and you tell me what it's called. So sometimes they do something, right. I'll look at it and say, what's, this stroke is called, and they say, it's called twisting and turning and then stopping and jumping. And while they're making it up, they're still learning something. Well that's the point you see. And the thing is you're gaining their confidence even more because they feel now that they could show you something, you've added an extra string to their bow. Yep, that's true. I really like that. They think they've taught, taught the teacher. Exactly and that's lovely to see because children love to teach adults, don't they? Yeah and there's so much we can learn from them. I mean, as you said, you learned that kids like to play. There's just so much we can learn from them and their innocence as well. Well this is it, you know, I've always put myself out there as like a children's advocate, because in most cases, they don't always get a good hearing, you know, especially in schools, you don't get chance to say much. So, when you're amongst, and then you give them the opportunity to express themself. Yep, that's right and how much of a better society are we going to have if kids can express themselves in a sport and in things like swimming. You know, there's so many angles on a compass and there's so many different viewpoints that you can hit things from. So, when you let a child out in a situation where they can express itself, I'll let you make some fantastic discoveries, really, you know, the way they've expressed herself. That's right. Very, very true. I like that. I love the way you think with swimming. I just love it. I would say that I really do. I mean, look, professor splash philosophy is this. ‘I'll dry up your tears, take away all your fears and you'll be swimming for years.' Oh, that's fantastic. You must come up with the best one-liners and the best rhymes. You know, as I said, I do love it. There was another one which is called back to the future and it goes, ‘Back to the future back to the past, move your arms slowly, move your feet fast.' Oh, that's so cool. You know, cause you get a feeling of giving the children something that belongs to them, you know? So, when they go home, they tell their parents what they have learnt and in most cases the parents wouldn't know what they're talking about. If they saw it than they would know exactly what's going on, yeah. Yeah, and that's it. I mean, kids using the words and freestyle and backstroke and all those, they're something that's been developed over the years and it, you know, kids are new, they're different. Allowing them to name it as they want just gives them that ownership to it. I like that a lot. Yes, exactly because at the moment I'm working on a book called ‘The Swimming Lessons'. A children's book, yeah. I started writing it before Rastamouse. It's about two teachers that teach in this tropical land and one of them shouts and screams and believes that, you know, to get the children a bit nervous, that'll help her but professor splash, sings and dances and relaxes. It's a story about one particular little boy. So, I'm still working on it at the moment, yeah. Oh, that's fantastic. Oh, well, we'd love to hear when it's all done, and we can promote it for you because that sounds like a great story for a lot of kids. Cause there's no swimming story, you see but what I intend to do with this story obviously is put in some technical stuff but not in a technical way. So, each story would teach a different stroke, but not in a technical, technical way, you know, it's like the first one is about the front crawlers. That's really good and it'll be great to use for Swim School's and things like that. It would be great for kids to learn outside of the water as well. They can learn so much from a story like that. What good work. I can't wait to hear those stories and write them. I'm sure my kids would love them. I'm trying to make them, you know, funny and enjoyable and informative as well. You know, because it's different. I've never seen a swimming story really like as such that will concentrate on the stroke, but be a story as well, yeah. Yeah, I know there's ones that Laurie Lawrence does here in Australia and they're very much water safety, so they bring the rhyming in it and it's great for water safety but as you said, I haven't heard of anything that brings in technique. And then also the story on top. Yeah. So, I'm working on that one, most definitely. So, for you, what does swimming look like in the future? I think sadly in England, it's sort of in decline, really? Because they're cutting back in schools. There is only one-year group goes for one term to swim throughout the year and they don't swim for the whole school. When you reach a certain year, then you go have one semester of swimming. So, to me it looks quite grim for children. I think more people are getting into open water swimming. I think less children are encouraged in swimming at the moment. I feel quite sad about that. Yeah, have you had an increase, or do you think there is an increase in private swim schools or is it just at that age there just not getting involved? Yeah, it's the age really? It's not so much, most of the leisure centres offer swimming lessons, most leisure centres, but as I say, they seem to be in a bit of declined because the amount of children that go to school doesn't reflect the number of children that get the opportunity to swim. Oh, that's sad. I mean, that's something Australia is finding quite difficult as well and we've luckily in a couple of States we have brought in, or they hope to be mandatory swimming lessons, but highly recommended for schools to do swim lessons but again, a lot of them are only over a certain period of time. All primary school levels participate. So at least for a certain amount of time, these kids are getting yearly swimming lessons. And it's unlike that here unfortunately. Only one-year group, I think is year three or year four and that's it. And when you swim than that's the only time and it can be such a wonderful activity. But one of the things I've noticed, the leisure centres charge schools, a lot of money. Oh yeah. They charged them a lot of money, which is really ridiculous, you know? They can just say, listen, if you do a really reasonable rate, then you'd be fully booked. The schools pay a lot, a lot of money for a short session than they can't afford to take everybody. No, that's it. Yep and a lot of schools around here as well, find it difficult because of we'll travel, and the costs and it adds up for schools. Because they would be better to spend money on other things. It would be better to offer sort of more quantity of lessons, I would have thought at a cheaper rate, I would say so. Yeah, definitely. So, looking into the future, how do you think as an individual or an industry, can we promote and develop, learn to swim, and encourage more participants, but with less funding? Maybe you could organize and encouraged families swimming. You're dealing with families and so, their confidence is built up through familiarity. They know the members of the family and, you know, just basic simple things. They can have little bits of information for families and little groups, you know, and you can afford, you know, you don't have to charge the earth for something like that and then you find that less children will necessarily go to paid swimming lessons if people can't afford more but children will still be swimming in the family free swim times. So, I'll say it from that point, it's a bond for the family anyways. Yeah. And what a perfect learning space when you've got the parents and other siblings involved and it doesn't take much to adapt an activity for different levels. No, it does. I've always said, right. Look with swimming, people have asked me, is it more difficult to teach an adult or a child? And the way I look at it is this in swimming, an adult that can't swim me, it's usually like a child, yeah. Yeah. So, you adopt very similar practices and you still have that playful element, but because we still got it in us, you know, so to me, yeah. I just think that there's not much difference when you're teaching people really have to have very similar practices for old or young children or adults really. Yeah, that's right. Yeah and I think also, like you said, with the family swimming, that's something that I know in Australia, they've been pushing as we come out of COVID, it's a lot easier to be able to bring families together and coming out of lookdown, families are looking for that connection that they've built during lockdown to be able to continue it. Yes. You don't have the COVID cross infection if they're all in together. Yes. It's a happier and easier place. Yes. That's pretty much all my questions. Did you have anything else that you wanted to share? Yeah, I was going to ask you. Are there many black swimming teachers in Australia? No, not well, not that I've seen really in all the conferences and things that I've been involved in. In Melbourne it may be different. Oh, okay. Yeah, because this is another thing in England, I think as well. Because there's such a stigma with black people in swimming. I think if we had more teachers that people could look and say, well, look, it's encouraging. I'd like really to teach a group of mixed children from scratch to competitive swimming. I'd like that. Cause I don't think any group should be excluded because it's just human beings. You know, all as human beings, no matter where you're from. That's right. Yeah. And I mean, it's going to benefit everyone. And if you can put those role models out in the system, the other people have gone to see them. Those kids are going to see people experiencing life and experiencing swimming, and they're are going to be more inclined to do it, if they have them role models out there. Most definitely. Because if you look at any country around the world. Certain people around by the sea, no matter where they are. Some people are very comfortable in the water. In a lot of countries, they are comfortable. It might not be a sort of national activity, but he like, for instance, in Sri Lanka, some of those people are very comfortable around the water. Some of them were very, very comfortable, the fishermen, but equally I did hear that. A few of them can't swim as well. I was a bit concerned. I can just imagine. I mean, a prime example of that is where I am here in country, Victoria and Australia. We have a lot of Filipino immigrants coming to work in, we have a lot of piggeries here. So Filipino immigrants are coming over there. Working in the piggeries and one of the girls, her family went to Bondi beach and she got caught up in a rip and she had a bad experience and she wanted to do swimming lessons with me. I said, come on, let's go. And she has a beautiful, absolutely beautiful technique, but she said I can't swim because she'd had a drowning experience. I got her in and she was very, quite scared, but she did really, really well. She came to me a few years later and said, I want to become a swim teacher while I'm at university and I said, well, you have to understand that you can swim, but you have your limitations. She said, well, the facility she wants to work at in Melbourne is sort of waist deep for her. Like the pool doesn't get much cheaper. And I said, well, if you're comfortable with that water and you take the time to learn and develop your skills, and you're great with kids. It'll be absolutely a fantastic career for her. She did and she's gone through, and now she has a waiting list of Filipino families that want to put their kids in with her to learn to swim. Wow, that's fantastic. I just think that whole circle, if I turned around and said to him, no, you haven't got the confidence for it. All the families wouldn't have had anyone that they could relate to, but now she can go in and she can teach those kids and it's making that difference. It's fantastic. You know, it just branches out and it just goes more of a web, to a bigger web, and it's fantastic. Yep. Yeah. You know, and just you encouraging one person can influence so many others. You don't know, those kids can then take it up. And it's a simple thing of, yeah, she's teaching while she's at Uni, but she may continue in it and I'm keen to get her back here to the country, over the holidays to be able to teach some of the other Filipino families here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. See, those are the sort of groups of things I'd like to work with where a group of people you're ready to teach them something new and it's exciting and fun and, and it's gonna really add something to their lives. I think projects that are very, very exciting. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah and I think it's just doing it. It's about getting involved and, you know, finding those people and putting the word out there because yeah, if it's not offered, they're not going to do it. No, no. You just go put the flag up there and just advertise itself. I think it's the perfect time. I think people are looking for that sort of diversity now, and the sport's going to need it. Whether you look at the competitive side or not, we need all the involvement we can get and minority groups are the ones that are gonna make me. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is, it's quite, you know, when you think of like the human resolve, right? You don't know what quarter you might get a champion from, because you've got someone with a determination and they say, right, I want to be the first one or whatever to do that for my community and just that's it. You don't know what's going to come from it. Yeah. That's right. You don't know, unless you try, you don't know what's going to come through and they're going to be a role model for so many other people that come through. Absolutely. You're inspiring me to get in and do more of that. Oh, wow. My aim right. Is to really eventually get our swimming school going again. I had a swimming school once. It was really, really good, very, very successful. It was basically I invited children from the schools that are taught to come to my school and we teach them all the technique, how to stretch out, how to do all these sort of things, but to make sure that they really do love swimming. You don't give them any regime that's going to put them off swimming, you know. That's my aim going forward to get my swimming school up and running again because after speaking to Julie-Anne, I realized that I really, really do love. I mean, really love swimming and want to just make sure that there's a, there is a legacy cause I do love, I mean, I love writing and I do love rust the mouse and I love all that. But swimming is my, is my passion. Yeah and it'll be amazing to have, you know, we don't want your wisdom and your passion to go to waste because how many people can you influence with that. Your writing as you've told us, your writing and your swimming passion have come together, which is great. And to be able to build on that again and have that swim school would be amazing and benefit so many people. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Oh, let me just Katrina, let me just tell you one more thing. One little, um, it's a little swimming exercise, right? Yeah. And it's about, you know, when children will not go under water or people want to go in the water and they're a bit worried about it. I've got this little poem it's called bubbles and it goes like this. ‘When you go into water, you must always think, is this something I should drink? If you don't want to cough again to trouble, puffer out your cheeks and blow some nice bubbles.' That's fantastic. Yeah. So, you know, you get those things in your mind, then, you know, what's going on. It's simple stuff and stuff. So relatable. Kids are going to understand that really well. It's not telling them, it's not directing them. It's just making them think. Exactly, Cause you don't want to keep giving instructions, instructions. It's about anything on this earth, right? When you start to think about it, then you start to feel it because it's the thought that ignites the feeling. So, if you say, you know what, I'm really looking forward to this, then you're going to enjoy it. You're not going to approach it with any sort of fear or any sort of trepidation. Your mind is alert. Yeah. That's great. I love that. You need to write a book about these, all these little poems and stories. You've got these tippets. That's going in the Swimming Lesson. That's going in the book. All these different things, all the different elements of learning to swim, the, you know, the floating, the treading water, the different elements that are going to be there, but in a story form. Yeah. I mean, that's, it, there's so much research out there that we learn through stories, our ancestors telling us stories. So, that sort of thing is good to be relatable to kids because they learn from stories. I know my daughter loves to learn stuff from reading books and she comes out with so much information when she's finished reading a novel, to be able to give that to kids, you know, topic related. That would be great. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, no. Well, I'm working on that and you've encouraged me and Julie-Anne is encouraging me. So that's my the next, we'll I'm working on one other book. I'm going to be working on two books in tandem, a little, a little rhyming book and a little swimming book. Cause I've got a little character called a little Brv. Oh, that's fantastic. You know, so could you want to deal with the children from all points of view? Don't, you know, you wouldn't have a little fun because I like the book is about rhyme because basically it's designed the rhymes that put out there. It meant to be recited aloud. So even though you've got them in the book, you've more got them in your head. You know, like all the little nursery rhymes that we have over years and years and years, just trying to write some new, some new, fresh ones. For the modern-day children, you know. Good idea, I like that. Yeah. Something a bit more relatable. Exactly. You know? Cause it what'd you call it a little Miss Muffet. Mary had a little lamb and all that, it doesn't make sense. No. And I don't think parents like it either. I mean, they don't engage with it as much as something that's more relatable to this day and age. Well, that's right. I want to leave you in one, cause I know we got to go soon. I've got to leave you this one, given that we're going through this crisis, this is called health and safety. Yep. Right? And it goes like this. ‘Whatever you pick from your nose, please don't wipe it on your clothes. Please don't flick it on the floor or try to kick it out the door. Please don't roll it in a ball and or try to stick it on a wall. Please don't wipe it on your sleeve. Try to find a tissue please.' That's fantastic. It's a whole book of those. It's a whole book of rhymes like that. So, this it. Just have we got new generation that to inspire them, to do stuff for yourself as well, keep things simple and they can do it themselves. How old are your children now? How old are your children? I have one whose nearly four and a five and a seven-year-old. All right, listen. This is one specially for them, so they can learn it. Yeah, cause you will record it and say it's called message from an ex baby, right? You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. ‘I will tell you why I'm happy. I no longer wearing nappy. I no longer use a dummy ask my daddy or my mommy.' Yeah, you can see if they can remember that. Alright and I'll than record it and send it to you. Indeed and now that'd be fabulous. Oh, they're gonna love that. They're going to think it's great. Inspire so many children out there. Oh, fantastic. Thank you so much for that. You've been absolutely amazing, and I've learned so much and I can't wait to see where you go from here. I think you've got so much potential and so much joy to bring to swimming. I really can't wait to see what happens and I hope you get to fulfil all your dreams and we'll be watching. Thank you very, very much and I really appreciate you offering me this opportunity to actually talk about swimming, as I said, which is something I really, really love some of my, some of our views research Australia before me. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. You're going to have to come over to following them up. Well, you know, I'm not going to refuse that. We need to get you as a guest speaker at our conferences to get us all up with the rhymes. Well I've usually got some free time. That's it. Listen Katrina, thank you very, very much. Thank you. It's been amazing. If it can do something to inspire kids and inspire swim teachers to have more fun and relax, it's just great. Yeah, yeah.

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Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey; Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away.

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05 Nursery Rhymes A-Z Mary had a little lamb It's fleece was white as snow And everywhere that mary want The lamb was sure to go A-Z Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep And can’t tell where to find them Leave them alone and they'll come home Wagging their tails behind them A-Z Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again A-Z Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey Along came a spider and sat down beside her And frightened Miss Muffet away A-Z Oh where,oh where has my little dog gone Oh where,oh where can he be With his earscut short and his tail cut long Oh where,oh where can he be? A-Z Hickory dickory dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock st...

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Welcome to Episode 55. Contains.... Celebrity Springwatch - Basil Goes Wild - Bishop Of Basillica - Basil's Folk Song - And Not Much Else. Website - www.basilbottler.com Email - basilbottler@gmail.com Love Basil.   The Rhymes They Are A-Changing (Lyrics)   Little Bo Peep has lost all her sheep/ And that little Jack Horner made Little Bo weep/ When he showed her his plums and he stole her dads jeep/ He shot old King Cole and his fiddlers/ And he fucked little Miss Muffet then he went home to sleep/ And the rhymes they are a-changing/   Then old Humpty Dumpty he looked at the wall/ And said I'm not climbing that I might fucking fall/ Wee Willy Winkie was flashing a ball/ As he ran his nightgown flapped open/ And his wee willy winkie was not wee at all/ And the times they are a-changing.                              

Afternoon tea and a chat on curds and whey. Why Miss Muffet was so keen on them.

What would have happened if poor Miss Muffet had not been frightened away by the spider that sat down beside her? Dr. Biology talks with two scientists that certainly were not frightened away by spiders. Listen in as biologists Eileen Hebets and Lisa Taylor talk about their passion for these cool creatures.