More — or less?
By Rhiannonw
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Oliver Twist came some kids to meet,
to ask if they’d had enough to eat …
“Oh, yes,” they said, “We couldn’t eat more
but it’s hard to choose, there’s choices galore.
We get tired of this, fed up with that,
and somehow we’re all getting a little too fat.
And some things we like they say are too sweet,
and that we should want more fruit, veg and meat.”
‘Do you ever get hungry and have to wait
with empty tum, and empty plate?
Are you ever cold as you run and play?’
“We’re mostly indoors in the warm all day,
with games and friends and films on screen,
and snacks to nibble inbetween.”
‘How odd,’ thought Oliver, ‘I was wiry and tough
even when I never had enough!’
[IP: a conversation with a character from fiction]
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From one end of the scale to
From one end of the scale to the other. Apparently the height disparity in Victorian England between rich and poor children was huge
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We need something in the
We need something in the middle!
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Have you?
Have you Rhiannon? "Do you ever get hungry and have to wait with empty tum, and empty plate?" Went to bed hungry? Then you would understand, “half an egg is better than an empty shell”.
There are many people here facing starvation. We have to give the kids food at school, there is terrible need. Tom
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