Thursday Journal with Neet

 The words this week are 'Life is good, without it we would be dead'                                                    

 It was the Summer holidays and Millie was in charge of her younger brother Alfie and sister Jennifer, and she was getting a bit fed up with his constant grumbling. They had one little dog called Poppy and they now wanted one each. Alfie was certainly not old or sensible enough to look after one and Millie knew she would end up looking after it. She didn't mind, but she was off to university in September and it wouldn't be fair on the dog to leave it in the incapable hands of Alfie. One dog Jennifer could and did look after really well, she fed it and took it for walks after school every day, but Alfie would soon get fed up with that. Everyone knew Alfie's enthusiasm wouldn't last very long, he was always in trouble, even in school, and no doubt he would probably want to keep picking it up and hugging it.

"Can I have a new bike instead" asked Alfie, "I would like a racing bike please"

"Don't be silly Alfie , they are for grown ups, you are no way big enough for one of those, you will have to wait until  you are about thirteen  for one, and anyway what's wrong with the bike you have?"

"It's old and the paint is chipped" replied Alfie.

"That's  because you don't look after it, and just drop it where ever you happen to get fed up riding it, I had to fetch it from the park last week, when you decided you had had enough and wanted to play football instead, and for goodness sake stop grumbling about everything it gets very annoying"remarked Millie.

Jennifer decided to keep quiet, now was not the time to get her big sister to allow anything remotely different. She would bring up the subject of a new hair style another time.

Alfie was about to come up with another idea, but before he could get a word out Millie told them both not to ask for anything, they were allowed more than most children were in the first place and should be grateful for their comfortable life. " Just remember life is great, without it we would be dead"

With that they both went to find something interesting to do. I am linking this to Mia's theme of Dots on Art Journal Journey