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The power of Peanuts

Our readers will know of the power of peanuts in our tale to stir up a discussion on environmental issues.  Elsewhere on our site you’ll find Sarah’s messages made from peanuts!  It’s therefore with strange co-incidence that we report the death at aged 91 of the animator Bill Melendez, who drew Charlie Brown, Snoopy and other Peanuts characters.  He was the only person given permission by the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, Charles Schulz, to animate his work.  He produced some 70 TV specials, including a Yuletide Charlie Brown Special in 1965.

Good grief! Here’s Sarah’s peanuts tribute to Bill … 

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Charlie Brown is a loveable loser, a child possessed of endless hope and determination.  Curiously, one of the key characters is Lucy!  She first appeared on 3 March.  Lucy’s often mean and cynical and is famed for teasing and belittling Charlie Brown with cruel comments and acts. Here’s Lucy famously analysing Charlie Brown…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38srxvt6qE&feature=related

Charlie was also famed for saying, “Why can’t I have a normal dog like everyone else?” which may amuse Malachi.

Tree Talk <> Wild birds <> China invasion

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In Dorset, England, tree surgeons have found a bizarre discovery in the branch of a 200 year old tree felled by the council because it posed a safety risk.  They found the image of a minature tree caused by a natural wood rot blemish. So, we have a tree close to the birth place of Samuel Coleridge - he of the Albatross fame - and planted at the time Charles Lamb wrote his journal. Is this a clear message to humanity to Stop Deforestation?  We think so!

Sadly, crimes against wild birds in the UK rose by more than 50% last year, including against rare birds of prey.  Threatened species such as redkite, hen harriers and goshawk have suffered shooting, poisioning, trapping and nest destruction.

The famous Terracotta soldiers from China have arrived at the British Museum, London.  The warriors - which date from around 200BC - where part of an 8,000 strom army of statues commissioned by China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang.  It’s believed they were made to guard him in his afterlife.  

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