Petal

Petal

Honey looked at her baby daughter. Her head was a slightky different shape to most other babies because she had downs syndrome. She had wanted her to be perfect and do an important job when she was grown up. She had got everything all plsnned out her her and now it was ruined.
Her husband Billy had come to terms with Petal much easier than she had and she resented him for this.
She had been going to call the baby Janet but now she felt as if Janet didn't exist.
She did want to bond with her daughter but she could not imagine how she could relate to her. She was very concerned about bringing the baby home and almost wished she could leave her at the hospital. She knew that would not be an option because Billy had already bonded with their daughter.
The night before the baby was due home Honey couldn't sleep so she walked into the square and sat down on a bench. She wished she could talk to the kind doctor from the hospital again who seemed to understand what she was feeling. He had even come round to her house to speak to her.
She got up and went for a short walk. She heard a noise from behind the local shop and went to see what it was. It was a mother cat and her kittens. She noticed that the kittens couldn't walk straight. The mother seemed to love them though. If any of them wandered too far away then she picked them up in her mouth and took them to the back enterance of the shop. Then the kittens wanted a feed so she stayed to watch. The mother made sure they had all had enough milk and then they all went to sleep, all curled up round her.
Honey wondered if maybe she would be able to love Petal after all. Just bacause she was handicapped then she would still be able to love Honey very much.
She went back home and was able to get some sleep. The next morning Honey and Billy went to collect Petal from the hospital. Billy was amazed that Honey walked straight up to Petal, picked her up and told her she loved her.
"I'm so relieved that you said that," Billy said.
"Our daughter is beautiful," said Honey, "She might be a different but she can still love us."
They took Petal home and in the taxi Petal squeezed Honey's hand. Honey was sure that her daughter was telling her that she understood everything.
Honey bought her daughter as many items with cats on as she could. She decided to get Petal a cat as soon as she was a bot older. She thought it had to be a sign of good luck for the family.

by Jessica Martin

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Hello! and welcome to the new term!

For many of you out there, this week is the first week of the new term! It may well be that you were bored after the long summer break and so you're glad to be getting back to reality but for some it may be horrible. However you feel about school/college, stick around here as we'll help you get through it, good or bad!
Some ideas for the coming weeks are posts on:

• bullying
• living to be 1000
• local democracy week
• recycling
• pets
• teachers
• chocolate
• Christmas shoeboxes

Hope that sounds interesting! Take care and check in again soon!

Nuclear Power

Tony Blair has recently said that in order to provide the energy we need for the future, we will build more nuclear power plants. There is lots going for nuclear power especially in reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (green house gases) that is released into the atmosphere. But do the safety worries outweigh that? Should we be doing more to promote "renewable sources" like solar power, wind and others?

Doctor Who!

Not sure if anyone else here is a fan of Doctor Who but I certainly am! Unfortunately it was the last one of this series on Saturday and it was the last one starring Billie Piper playing Rose.












If any of my friends from Clare School come on, I thought you'd appreciate this picture of Billie! Even though I think she's a good actress and I thought Rose was an excellent character, I'm glad she's leaving. The Doctor needs to be concentrating on saving the universe and not getting distracted by falling in love. The last episode did tug on my heartstrings and I'm not ashamed to say that there were tears in my eyes as Rose was seperated from her Doctor by being flung into a parallel universe. However we have got a Christmas special to look forward to and then a new assistant starting next year.

My favourite line in Saturdays episode?
Darlek: "Cybermen are superior [to Darleks] in just one thing - they are better at dying"!

Cigarettes

The government are consulting people whether they should raise the age that you can buy cigarettes to either 17 or 18. I personally can't imagine that it will make any difference except annoy people and make some young people even MORE determined to rebel and smoke!

What do you think?

• leave it the same
• raise it to 17
• raise it to 18
  

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