Article for 2008 May 06
Part of the “Redwing spring” series.
2008
2008 May
May 06 Tue “TOMATO”
Oh good. Athletics was the 1,500 metres and the discus. More importantly, a beetle flew on to my arm as we (the boys in my class) were lining up for the discus. Someone killed Betelgeuse (say “beetle-juice”) while I was happily observing it. Unlucky Betelgeuse. He’s (though Betelgeuse could have been female) joined his namesake, up in the sky, a star in the constellation Orion.
Magpies are black and white, and made up of lots of little cells - Science.
And lunch was something wierd. Same as usual, then.