road safety and glue

I must admit I felt relieved when Kimbleton left.

All the time they were staying with me, I felt obliged to be thinking of amusements for them.

It was very tiring.

But now that they’ve set out on a major expedition, I’m worrying, because I know they aren’t careful on roads.

When I told them that I always look right, look left, look right again, and then if all’s clear, quick march straight across, they laughed at me, and darted straight out into the traffic.

I didn’t dare mention road safety again, for fear of setting off even more dangerous behaviour.

But Ruffy reminded me that in many places there are now dedicated tardigrade lanes.

I’m hoping that Kimbleton will keep to those.

I wonder whether Kimbleton has made any progress in finding Walrus and Bruno.

All these months that they’ve been away, I’m ashamed to say that I’ve hardly given them a thought.

I was a bit cross with them for breaking the Covid Rules, and setting off during Lockdown.

But now I’m worried. Supposing they did actually catch the Virus?

Perhaps they’re ill somewhere, with no one knowing who they are or where they come from?

They may even be dead.

Perhaps we’ll never know what’s happened to them.

Jenny says it’s not my fault.

Jenny’s my little sister. She’s always been quite strict.

I’d only just put the phone down, when it rang again.

Oh dear. I’d forgotten all about the great Rebellion.

I wonder if I should have been glueing myself to something.

I don’t feel that anyone would notice if I did.

I’ll make some Rebellion biscuits.

I’ll go and push a little packet of them through Ruffy and Points’s cell window.

I don’t suppose you get very nice food in a police cell. If you get any at all.

If I sing Gibbs’s song while I’m rolling out the dough, it will almost count as practising.

“Oh! my Ruffy, my constant Ruffy,
When shall we see our Ruffy again?
Ruffy again, Ruffy again, Ruffy again, Ruffy again…

Oh! my Ruffy, and also Points,
When shall we see them both again?”

Oh dear. I’ve made too many, and they’ve come out far too big.

They won’t be easy to smuggle into anywhere.