Give Peas A Chance

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In the mid-1980s the construction of the M25 motorway required the Misbourne to be diverted via underground concrete culverts. Surprise your mum with a chainsaw, be a bigger star than Tom Cruise, save the world with a plate of vegetables, start your new life in a taxi, rescue your family with a tomato, send your dad into a panic with a tractor, do a good deed with a paper bag on your head, pack your suitcase for a trip to the spleen, upset your auntie with ten kilos of chocolate, swap a bomb for three ice creams on a steam train . Some of the stories have themes about future careers and written work can involve short writing tasks about aspirations, goals and how to achieve them. The people who missed the “GIVE PEAS A CHANCE” graffiti weren’t the only enemies made by HELCH, whose tag popped up in various other locations across southeast England, including a railway viaduct within full view of Windsor Castle. the collection starts strongly with mission impossible, paparazzi and greenhouse gas, but there are few gems after that.

He has written for TV, stage, newspapers and magazines but is best known for his hugely successful children's books including Two Weeks with the Queen, Bumface, and his series about Felix and Zelda, Once, Now, Then and After. At under 200 pages, it is within reach of able readers from age 8 onwards, each story only 8-12 pages in general. Katie Stileman, who lives in Oxford but grew up in south London, said the bridge "was a regular feature of Christmas, Easter and summer visits to grandparents, a homecoming banner, a glimmer of hope in the darkest of car journeys".Fifteen funny stories, at times comic, wry, whimsical, moving, off-the-wall and downright hilarious, make up this brilliant book. The copyright on this image is owned by Sebastian Ballard and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2. No matter if you've driven past it once or one hundred times you will always find yourself wondering how it got there and what it truly means.

We have probably all driven under it a thousand times - the bridge on the M25 which has Give Peas A Chance painted in huge letters on the side. My favourite story in this book is the one that this book is named after, Give Peas A Chance because Ben tries to save the world by going on strike to make countries get rid of all their weapons.So there was a boy and he said he wouldn't eat his veggies except if all the guns were gone in this world.

He flung himself into the middle of units 7, 8 and 9, who were squabbling noisily over who got to use the crazy-golf club first. Dad was saying only recently that some parents’ global fears were making them incredibly competitive about their kids.Morris wrote a number of feature film and telemovie screenplays, including The Other Facts of Life and Second Childhood, both produced by The Australian Children's Television Foundation. The rattly door on the cold drinks cabinet in the office was wedged firmly and silently shut with cotton buds. At first, the graffiti simply read “PEAS”, which is a word that had appeared in graffiti elsewhere and was thought to be the tag of a London street artist. Last week everyone opened their doors and windows to join in with the clap for carers around the nation which brought a tear to the eye of even the most stubborn of Brits. The Facebook group administrator added: ‘The message from the group is let’s get this clean, wipe off all the graffiti and get ‘Give Peas A Chance back’ from the photos – get a professional artist to put it back, pixel by pixel.

The reception towards this modification was largely negative, to the point that a petition to Network Rail to reinstate the previous slogan and make the bridge a listed building was produced, and received over 2,000 signatures. For more than 20 years the faded white lettering on the Chalfont Viaduct on the M25 must have been Britain’s most-loved graffiti. But emblazoned in giant letters on the side of the bridge is the unmissable message, "Give peas a chance".When you eat food cooked from scratch, you eat lots more fibre and 30% more vegetables, which is beneficial for your gut and immune system.