Inspired by my daughter and the Cambridge Science Festival, I can’t stop writing lots of pretty rubbish rhymes about questions she has asked me and questions I’m still not sure I know the answers too!
Most of them are using words she knows in first year of school. Tgought I’d share!
Here is the biology section!! x
I am sad
I start to cry
Water runs out
From my eyes
Why?
Why do I have water from my eyes?
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I eat a cherry
The cherry is red
But when I poo
It’s brown instead
Why?
Why is my poo brown?
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I eat beans for lunch
The beans go in my belly
I start to fart
The fart is smelly
Why?
Why do I fart? And why is it smelly?
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I eat more beans
I fart some more
That fart is like a lion –
ROAR!
Why?
Why has a fart got a noise?
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I jump and jump
on my bed
And when I stop
My face is red
Why?
Why is my face red if I jump a lot?
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I play all day
And do not drink
When I wee
It really stinks
Why?
Why is wee stinky if I do not drink a lot?
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I eat an ice cream
Then 5 more
My belly starts
To feel sore
Why?
Why is my belly sore if I eat and eat and eat?
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I put on socks
The day is hot
My toes get sweaty
Till I take the socks off
Why?
Why do I get sweaty feet?
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I cut my knee
It bleeds a bit
A scab soon grows
To cover / plaster it
Why?
What is a scab?
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In my nose
If I dig deep
Is a hole
Where bogeys sleep
Why?
What is a bogey?
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Hollie x
Hollie McNish 
That reminds me a lot of an old Mike Harding song called There’s Some Things That The Grown Ups Just Won’t Tell You. It’s ace. And is on iTunes…
Hi Hollie
We are music students at University of Aberdeen running a project promoting positive body image for women of all ages. We have used your poem WOW as inspiration for our participants and they have loved it and written there own. We are coming to see you in Aberdeen and can’t wait to hear it live. We are also finishing the project with an exhibition of the work created, as well as reflecting the participants personal body image through music. We would really appreciate it if you had a message for our ladies to include in the final gallery.
Thanks so much
Becca and Grace
Hey! It was you I met I assume – lush to meet you! I think the thing I think most is: Your body is there to help you enjoy life through, nothing more. If it works well, healthily, lets you taste, touch, sense the world, appreciate it. Many people don;t have that luxury x
Just heard you on Woman’s Hour, which I rarely catch these days. So pleased I did. I had never heard of you before. Filled with admiration. The breast feeding poem/song really struck a chord with me. So pleased to have been introduced to you. Thank you
thanks a lot x