Andy's Monologue
Dedicated to our beloved brother, André, who led so many children to the joy of reading.
G rannies and grandpas often say, “We didn’t have television and computers and playstations when we were young. We knew how to have fun.”
We will tell you how we had fun in the 1960s with no television, computer games or play station!
We were a family of five children: Big Sister and Andy were older; then came us, Davie and Lizzie, who thought up the best games; and then our baby sister, Allie, who joined in sometimes.
We liked to learn funny new words. We learnt a new word for ‘slippers’. It was ‘pantoffels’. We liked the word so much we said it a lot.
Then we invented a new game. Andy hid in the bathroom at the end of the passage. We ran down the passage shouting …show more content…
One day we played ‘Voortrekker, voortrekker’ in the garden. The wheelbarrow was our ox wagon and we had to hunt for wild animals to eat. We didn’t really find any wild animals, just a dead lizard. We made a little fire for cooking our food. Lighting a fire is fun!
But we made the fire too close to the hedge and it caught alight! The flames grew high in the wind so we called for help. Then our mom rushed out and put the fire out with the hose. She was VERY cross and told us NEVER to play with matches again. That wasn’t fun!
When we played ‘school school’, Big Sister always had to be the teacher. She made us do sums and reading. She was very bossy! That wasn’t fun; it was boring!
Sometimes she taught us new words. She said that Andy was a philatelist. We asked why she called Andy a horrible name.
“Andy is a philatelist because he collects stamps,” she said in her teacher voice.
We had an idea; we could use this word when the mean children teased us! They would think it was a very rude word.
So the next time they shouted rude things to us over the fence we shouted, “You philatelists!” They looked shocked and ran home to tell their mummies.
That was
G rannies and grandpas often say, “We didn’t have television and computers and playstations when we were young. We knew how to have fun.”
We will tell you how we had fun in the 1960s with no television, computer games or play station!
We were a family of five children: Big Sister and Andy were older; then came us, Davie and Lizzie, who thought up the best games; and then our baby sister, Allie, who joined in sometimes.
We liked to learn funny new words. We learnt a new word for ‘slippers’. It was ‘pantoffels’. We liked the word so much we said it a lot.
Then we invented a new game. Andy hid in the bathroom at the end of the passage. We ran down the passage shouting …show more content…
One day we played ‘Voortrekker, voortrekker’ in the garden. The wheelbarrow was our ox wagon and we had to hunt for wild animals to eat. We didn’t really find any wild animals, just a dead lizard. We made a little fire for cooking our food. Lighting a fire is fun!
But we made the fire too close to the hedge and it caught alight! The flames grew high in the wind so we called for help. Then our mom rushed out and put the fire out with the hose. She was VERY cross and told us NEVER to play with matches again. That wasn’t fun!
When we played ‘school school’, Big Sister always had to be the teacher. She made us do sums and reading. She was very bossy! That wasn’t fun; it was boring!
Sometimes she taught us new words. She said that Andy was a philatelist. We asked why she called Andy a horrible name.
“Andy is a philatelist because he collects stamps,” she said in her teacher voice.
We had an idea; we could use this word when the mean children teased us! They would think it was a very rude word.
So the next time they shouted rude things to us over the fence we shouted, “You philatelists!” They looked shocked and ran home to tell their mummies.
That was