Gordi animal carer

Gordi is a famous animal carer, here’s why;

Early Years

In 1837 Gordi was born in Cornwall but moved around quite a lot due to her parents’ jobs. she was always intent on looking after animals, she wanted to have pets, but she wasn’t allowed. Her mother and father worked in the Atlantic, to Gordi’s dismay they worked on large ships, moving valuable items, such as coal. Daily, they pumped out 36,875 gallons of smoke, Gordi hated it.

School

Gordi went with the intention to be good at science, PE and to be able to memorize maps. When she was older she wanted to go on great expeditions and she would need these skills. She sadly had only one friend as she was too interested in her grades to focus on her friendships. At the end of school, she was put out to only get a D in science and third to worst in PE. The surprising good grade was in cooking, she hated cooking, she hated it even more when the teacher suggested she could be a cook.

How she became famous

Gordi hatched a plan, when she was fifteen, to destroy her parents ships to save the oceans. She was caught mid-way through her plan and shipped to an island made of trash as punishment. She spent the next nine months snipping seaweed round the island and replanting it. She ate the leftover leaves for food while everyone thought she was dead. She escaped by weaving a raft and hitching onto a cruise ship and arrived in Mexico.

Mexico

Gordi found Mexico very different to Cornwall, they ate Chapulines (grasshoppers) and were very rude. She had no one to look after her so she had to fend for herself, she became an unknown street urchin. However, her once clean face was often on the front of ‘The Times’ Her old self known as ‘The Girl Who Disappeared’ but slowly became forgotten and turned into ‘Old news’ Gone, forever.

Gordi comes back

When she became eighteen she left Mexico and escaped on a train to Canada, feeling like a criminal crouching under a chair. She was found and thrown out less than halfway there, she found a tea stained newspaper shoved under a tree and used it to help a bird make a nest and decided from that day forward she would look after animals.

Adult life

She married in 1861 to Ben Kiran and had three children: Ted, Tina and Little Larry

What She Did

In 1863 she opened a conservational wildlife project improving lives of millions of animals around the globe. Gordi recited a medal of honor, but sadly, while trying to tame a lion, took a fatal bite and within seconds, was dead. She died in 1867 at age 26.

Dark light

Have you ever gone on a sky ship? No? Holiday on a boat then, feel the wind flowing through your hair, you look down and see the sea, a sky ship is a bit like that, imagine you looked down to see villages, towns, cities and even countries! Now just imagine it…

Jamie and his younger sister Lily are from a little town on the edge of a city, Jamie is scared for his sister and lonely, being twelve is all about looking after Lily, Lily is a brave heroine but annoyed that she is only ten as no one takes her seriously. Their parents told them that the sky ship ‘dark light’ would be theirs one day and every night the two children went to bed with their head busting of dreams of piloting ‘dark light’. they recently lost their parents in an immense blizzard, thirteen days later their bodies, found thin, weak and covered in a watery red liquid, believed to be blood and a curved tooth sinking into the woman’s heart…

Two children called Jamie and Lily were once again staring at a mighty sky ship labelled ‘Dark Light,’ Once again, “it will be ours,” quoted Jamie, Lily began to cry; that was the words their Mum and Dad had said right before… Lily pushed the unwelcome memory of the past away, Jamie squeezed her hand “it’ll be all right,” he whispered but Lily never thought the sun would come out again.

The next morning when Jamie woke, he was alone, not to do with his parents, gone, but something else, “Lily!” he squealed, there was no reply… Jamie rushed out of the door to see the mighty sky ship hovering about to leave, there was no time to spare he ran past the houses on the street and trees in the park, “Lily!” he screamed as the sky ship went to leave,                                                              “Jamie?” she cried. Jamie leaped onto a rope hanging off the ship, he grabbed it! He yanked himself up! He lost his grip and began tumbling down, just as he was as good as gone he caught the flailing rope and hoisted himself up onto the deck. Lily hugged him, “I thought you were a goner!” she cried

The two children sat alone on the deck, listening to the engines of the sky ship that they had prayed would be theirs. The hours hung in the breeze like dewdrops on a spider’s web. Time couldn’t get more peaceful, there and then nothing else mattered in the world. When they awoke it was almost pitch black, they must have been asleep for several hours, the third continent was in sight! But the ship careered of to one side and down, an engine must have failed! The crew launched their parachutes and like feathers glided away from the ship, Lily and Jamie had no parachute and no way to escape what was inevitable…

They landed with an almighty smash but Lily was nowhere to be seen, the silence filled him with horror…

I would take a Tardis tent, woven of a child’s spirits, for hiding in lakes of fear,

I would take a map to happiness and freedom,

I would take a bottomless bottle, filled with sweet cherries and oranges to squeeze for their juice,

I would take an alpaca, that ballroom dances and sings opera, for my entertainment,

I would take a bottled whirlwind for climbing snow-capped mountains,

I would take a pouch of stardust for escaping combat,

I would take an enchanted compass that points to the ‘cake?’ Or ‘cup of tea?’,

I would take a slice of death to cast on my enemies,

I would take a maximized toffee that grows back any piece you bit off,

I would take my happiness, my friendships and freedom,

I would take you…

The Dragon

Its tail like a fiery diamond sword beating in the darkness,

Its wings like snapped propellers on an autumn evening,

Its claws bloodstained and sharp like knives,

Its skin like melting snow on a summer’s day,

its spine like jagged rocks on an icy morning,

its tongue nobly like a wet toad’s warts,

its fangs like smashed glass when the snow is blowing in,

its eyes like black holes,

slits into nothing,

waiting to suck you in,

his heart, misunderstood, sad and lonely,