Mrs Mack couldn't
concentrate because of the loud noises coming from out front
of the house! Road works were in progress and the whole house shook
with every Bang! Crash! Wallop!! However, she knew she had to try and blockout
the noise and make up the Jelly!
It was a special occasion and meant to
be a surprise for her children, Mary and Shaun. Afterall, not every day do
they get rewarded with a "Good Kids Day"! And Jelly was their
favourite!
"Now, let's see .. Plain Jelly .. Ingredients .. ONE package
Yellow Jelly and 1 pint boiling water. Yes! I think I can manage
that!
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!, Wallop!!!
The table shook,
cupboards shook, everything on the shelves shook and at times
quite violently!!
"Preparation Method.. Dissolve Jelly in boiling
water. Turn into individual moulds. Chill until firm. Unmold."
Rattle!,
Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!, Wallop!!!
"Oh Glory be! How the heck am I meant
to concentrate with that rumpus going on!"
Mrs Mack considered
concentration a MUST whilst cooking. Not that long ago she prepared a
"special treat" called "Patio Rice" that didn't quite turn out as
she had hoped. (no one told her it wasn't meant to be walked
on) In fact, if that "Patio Rice" had been spread over the roadway
out front, the workers out there would be there for months breaking
it into pieces!!
"ELEVEN packets of Orange Jelly ... One pint boiling
water."
Mrs Mack tipped Eleven packets of Orange Jelly into the
bowl of Boiling water. Was about to look for the molds when
the phone rang.
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!,
Wallop!!!
"Hullo?"
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!,
Wallop!!!
"Hullo!!! Look, I'm sorry you'll have to speak up
... there's roadworks going on and I can't hear
you"!!!
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!, Wallop!!!
"er.... Sick?
... Mary's Sick? ... School? ............."
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!,
Crash!, Wallop!!!
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!, Wallop!!!
"Sorry
this is hopeless!! .. NO! Not You! .. Hopeless here ... Can't hear
you ... I'll come and see you"
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!,
Wallop!!!
Rattle!, Rattle!, Bang!, Crash!, Wallop!!!
Bang!! Bang!!
Crash!! Crash!! Wallop! Wallop!
Everything in the kitchen shook, more
violently than ever before! Something fell out of the wall cupboard and its
contents went into the setting Jelly.(No one ever did discover what the
ingredient was)
Slish-slosh!! Spitter-spatter!! Splitter-splutter!!
Squish-squash!!
The Jelly expanded, expanded and
expanded breaking the bowl in the process!
The Jelly slowly Drip-dropped onto the floor
forming into a strange human like shape. It had a
roundish body, two short legs, two arms that extended down the length of the
body and a long narrow head! Slowly, slowly slithering across the
floor, coming to rest inside a broom closet.
2 Wobbly Wobs
Inside the Broom closet things were stiring! Slowly!!
The
Jelly tried and tried to stand errect. Each attempt was met with severe Wobbily
Wobs. Legs wobbled and folded. Arms wobbled up and down. Head and
body wobbily wobbed! The Jelly wobbled Wobbily to the floor, folding
over onto itself.
A Jell niddle-noddled inside the head of the
Jelly `that if it pressed itself against the door
and forced the body, arms and legs to follow it could
manage to stand'!
The fact that it "Jelled the niddle-noddle" surprised
the Jelly because "it" had never experienced anything like it
before!
"Funny sensation", the Head niddle-noddled."This niddy-noddy
inside my head is like words forming somewhere, tickling me where the hole
is above my Chinny-Chin-Chin! Just as if it wants to get
out!!"
"Needle Noddle Noo!! I wonder what a Chinny-chin-chin is
too?"
The Jelly head pushed against the door, bracing the body
against a mop, broom and shelving, slowly slither-slathering
upright with wobbily wobs making it swish and sway back
and forth, forming into a strange "S" shape.
Jelly wiggled-wobbled
wobbily back and forth, stretching itself up and down,
moving first the head back and forth, wobbly arms touching the floor and
finally, the wobbily legs.
Words niddy-noddled and Jelled inside the
head. "Ah! I think I've got the hang of the wobbles now! ... and the
niddy-noddling too"
This time as Jelly jelled the words, the tickling
sensation caused a sound to utter from the hole above his
chinny-chin-chin.
Something like: "I zink I got da 'ang ov ze 'obbles
now" It wasn't anything like that had Jelled inside the head, but the tickling
in the hole above his chinny-chin-chin felt good, so decided
to practice Jelling more niddy-noddles from the head to the "hole".
As he
did so a picture jelled in his head and on the picture had something on it:
"Melloh Jelloh". "Is that what I am ... a "Melloh Jelloh?"
The tickling
sensation felt good as the Hole utter the words!
"Pells-mell ... Daz wot I
Iz! ... Melloh Jelloh !!"
"Kall da me Melloh Jelloh .. an' Qwite ritely
daz me ... Melloh Jelloh
.. an' Qwite ritely
Melloh Jelloh .. I Niddy-noddled
Melloh Jelloh am dis fella."
3
SAFFRON
"Melloh Jelloh .. I Niddy-noddle
Melloh Jelloh I'm dis
fella."
Melloh Jelloh repeated the phrase over and over and
the Hole above his Chinny-chin-chin tickled and tickled
until it almost hurt.
"Melloh Jelloh .. I Niddy-noddle
Melloh Jelloh
I'm dis fella."
"I call me Melloh Jelloh
I call me Melloh Jelloh and
Quite rightly
I call me Melloh Jelloh",the Hole Gobbly-Wobbed
"I
dunna unna-stand!!! If I Niddy-noddle the words they come out diff'rent when I
Gobbly-Wob them ... And the Hole above my chinny-chin-chin doesn't
tickle when I Gobbly-wobble!"
"Melloh Jelloh I'm dis fella", he
Niddy-Noddled.
"I call me Melloh Jelloh", he
Gobbly-wobbled.
"Melloh Jelloh I'm dis fella."
"I call me Melloh
Jelloh".
Melloh Jelloh repeated the Niddy-noddles and Gobbly-wobbles over
and over and was caught by surprise when the Closet door
opened!
A young girl stared at him, eyes staring and mouth wide open! She
closed the door and opened it again ... closed and opened it again ... it was
still there whatever it was!!!
"Melloh Jelloh I'm dis fella", Melloh
Jelloh niddy-noddled.
"What?" The door closed and opened
again.
"Melloh Jelloh I'm dis fella", Melloh Jelloh niddy-noddled once
again.
"What are ... how did ... you're made of Jelly ... Yellow
Jelly!!!"
"Melloh Jelloh .... I call me Melloh Jelloh", he
Gobbly-wobbed.
"That's better, I can understand you when you
sing"
"Sing? That's a Gobbly-wobble!"
"Well, you can't stay in the
Broom closet Mom will find you!"
"Wazza Mom?"
"Oh! Don't worry
about that now, I'll explain it all to you later! First we
have to find a safe hiding place for you! If Mom found you she'd
more than chuck a wobbly ... and goodness only knows what Daddy would
do!!!"
"Wobbly? Oh I can do Wobblies ... and Golly-Wobbles ... Wazza
Daddy??!!!!"
Mary folded Melloh Jelloh over her arm and carried him
through the kitchen, out through the patio, across the lawn and into the garden
Shed. She stood Melloh Jelloh up and closed the Shed door. Her hands rested on
her hips, stared at Melloh Jelloh for awhile, frowned and in her
best demanding six year old voice said:
"Now! Where did you come from?
What's a niddy-noddle, a Gobbly Wob, and why are you
made of Orange Jello?"
"Well, my Mom was a Bowl that broke when she had
me and I slither-slathered into the broom place! I wiggle-wobbled upright and
discovered niddy-noddles... Niddies ........."
"Niddy-Noddles, or
Niddies, are thoughts, when you THINK!", Mary interjected
"Daz nice fer
'em! ... I have Nuddles too. Sorta like heavy niddies"
"That's
concentration!"
"Nah! ... If Niddies are `thoughts' which are really
`thinks'.. then Nuddles must be `Thunks' ... because they're heavy
Thinks!"
"I need time to think ... er thunk ... about that!"
"What
about you're singing then?"
"Well, when the Hole above my
chinny-chin-chin .............."
"That's you're mouth and your
chinny-chin-chin is your CHIN"
"Oh, really? ... Well, when I
niddy-noddled my MOUTH above my CHIN would tickle! But
whenever I Gobbly-Wob .. er... SING, the words
come out different, and you can understand them. Just like I'm Gobb
.. er .. SINGING now!"
"My name is Mary, by the way"
"Nah!!!
Saffron !!! Coz yer got Saffron over you!"
"That's my yellow frock,
silly!"
"SAFFRON!!!!"
"OK ... Saffron then!"
They smiled at
each other. Melloh Jelloh raised an arm and placed it on
Mary's shoulder.
"I'm just mad about Saffron ,
Saffron's mad about
me
I'm a-just mad about Saffron ,
She's just mad about me."
"Hey,
that's cute! Real cool!"
"Yeah ... I like cool ... gotta keep cool or
else I'll splish-splosh!"
"I'm just mad about Melloh Jelloh,
Melloh Jelloh's mad about me
I'm a-just mad about Melloh Jelloh
,
He's just mad about me."
"So, did you come from a Bowl
too?"
"I don't THINK so! Anyway, I'm only six years old ..... how old are
you?
"I was made in the year-of-Thursday .... or somfin
likadat"
Mary and Melloh Jelloh spent many hours that
day sharing Human thinks and thunks and Jelloh Niddies
and Nuddles. Too soon Mary realised it was time for her to
leave Melloh Jelloh for the day and re-arranged the interior of the shed so that
he could be hidden from prying eyes. The last thing Mary wanted was for her
Daddy to come `fiddle-faddling around', as Melloh Jelloh would say! Especially
if he were whisky-frisky drunk!
"Pells-mell ... He's got ME talking
like him now!!!"
4 FOURTEEN
Mary opened the door of the
shed to find Melloh Jelloh standing upright with the aid of a garden rake and a
straw broom! She gave a little laugh.
"What's with the rake and the
broom?"
"Good morning to you too!!! It's to stop me from falling over
when I sleep"
"You lay down to sleep ... not standing up!!!"
"Oh
NO! You go splish-splosh if you lay down!"
Mary was about to ask what
"Splish-splosh" meant when the door opened and there stood her young
brother, Shaun. Mary panicked and pulled the door shut,holding it
firmly.
"What have you got in there ... who are you talking
to?"
"If I open the door and show you .. you must promise NOT to tell Mom
and Dad...OK?"
"Yes, OK"
Mary introduced Shaun to Melloh Jelloh.
Shaun was excited becaused he'd never seen so much jelly
in all his life!
"I'm Shaun and I'm Mary's ...er... Saffron's....little
Brother"
"Little? ... you're Fouteen ... that's little! ..
Fourteen!!!"
"No! I'm only three, not fourteen"
"You're SIZE
Fourteen!"
"Oh, right!"
"I'm just mad about Fourteen
,
And Fourteen's mad about me
I'm a-just a-mad
about Fourteen ,
He's just mad about me."
"Now remember
Shaun ... not a word to anyone about this! No one must EVER know about Melloh
Jelloh ... RIGHT???"
"No Problem! I like him ... he's
cool!
"Gotta stay cool. No splish-sploshes then!"
"What's a
`Splish-Splosh' then?"
"Dunno! It hasn't happened yet... and I'm sure I'm
not going to like it when it happens either! I just know that a Splish-Splosh is
bad for me!!"
"What do you eat...cookies?" asked Shaun.
"Nup ....
I ate from the Bowl before it broke! ... What's a cookie?"
"Cookie .... a
biscuit ...cookie biscuit .... really Yum-Yum!"
"Yum-Yum is good,
right?
"Like Jelly ... Jelly is Yum Yum too!"
"YOU EAT
JELLy????"
"Er ... Jelly .... not Jelloh creatures!"
"There's a
diff'rence?"
"Oh yes! Jelly is soft and wobbles on a plate. Jelloh, like
you .... well, you're stiff and shaky! No one could ever eat
you!!"
"Pells-mell!!! ... I don't like this place
anymore! Jelly and Jelloh! Wobbles on plates! Stiff and
shaky indeed!!!
5 Electrical Bananas
The next day Melloh
Jelloh was all alone. Mary went to school and Shaun to kindergarten. He felt
alone and very lonely. Very lonely indeed! So he
peaked through the opening of the shed door and saw it was a
beautiful cool day ... cold enough to freeze a Jelly Baby, he
mused.
He eased himself through the opening and wobbily-wobbed his way
toward the house. He could hear someone gobbly-wobbling .. singing .. inside
somewhere so he went to a window and looked in to see who or what it was that
gobbly-wobbled so beautifully!
It was coming from the kitchen and
inside Mrs Mack was preparing another "special treat". She was
peeling bananas and then stuffing them inside the food
processor.
When she switched on the Food processor
the whirring spitter-spatter, splitter-splutter noise
frightened Melloh Jelloh. Bananas were ok ... but things electrical
frightened him!
Something inside him made him feel nervous about
fizzy-sparkling things. He didn't know why .. he just knew that
fizzy-sparling things would somehow do a Fizz-sparky thing to him .. from head
to toe! And he didn't want that!
As he moved away from the window in
fright Mrs Mack just happened to get a glimpse of him! His bright Yellow
shape startled her and she yelled out: "Aliens! ... Aliens! ... Hell's Bells!
Aliens!"
Melloh Jelloh retreated to the safety of the
garden shed. He promised himself that he'd never venture
outside of it again!
"Electrical banana
Is
gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is
bound to be the very next phase", Melloh Jelloh sang as he slid into his hiding
place.
6 Widdle Waddles
The weather was changing from cold winter to warmer
spring days. Melloh Jelloh felt nervous! The warmth made him
feel sticky-gooey ... and sticky-gooey was not good, not
for Jelly, and most of all ... not for a Jelloh!
Sticky-gooey was one
thing, ... but, Widdle-waddles were something
so horrible he didn't want to think about them! However,
widdle-waddles were inevitable and he knew that they would most
certainly happen. More sooner than later!
"What do I do? Do I
tell Saffron .. er .. Mary! And Shaun? ... Warn them or just
splish-splosh?"
Melloh Jelloh spent most of that day thinking about this
and couldn't make up his little Jelly mind one way or the other... afterall, he
only had Jelly for a brain!
When he awoke the following morning he
discovered that he was more sticky-gooey than the day before. His
drooping arms had a slight splish-splosh coming from them and
his feet were standing in a small pool of splish-splosh! The Widdle-Waddles had
begun!
"How on earth do I break the news to the children! How do I
explain Widdle-waddles and the dreaded Splish-Splosh? I've become so attached to
them ...and enjoy their chitter-chatter, even though I don't understand
more than but a fraction what they talk about!"
Melloh Jelloh
decided to THUNK about it overnight! There's always tomorrow and tomorrow he
will decide the issue, once and for all! That's providing the
Splish-Splosh doesn't get him!
7 Flying High
Mary and
Shaun arrived early at the shed. Mary opened the door for herself and Shaun and
excitedly looked around, but was shocked by what she
saw! She almost screamed!! Melloh Jelloh was melting and was standing in a
pool of jelly!
"Oh No!! ... what's wrong? ... What's
happening?
"You're melting away!, cried Shaun.
"This is
widdle-waddles turning into splish-splosh. Soon, my dear friends,I'll be
only splish-splosh, and be no more!"
"But you can't! .. I mean ... we
love you...and we want you to stay with us...forever ..not just melt away from
us!" Mary had tears in her eyes as she spoke and glanced at Shaun
who sobbed quietly to himself.
"How...How long do you
have....I mean do WE have together?"
"The sun is hot and I'm
splish-sploshing rapidly. We don't have much time".
"Isn't there
something we can do...like shove you in the freezer... I'm sure Mom wouldn't
mind once we explained?"
"No sorry! I have already widdle-waddled away
much of my arms and legs.My body is getting thinner and
thinner. Soon I shan't be able to stand! The moment I
can't stand and collapse to the ground I will splish-splosh
away almost imediately!"
"Then I don't want to see you as a pool of Jelly
..er.. Jelloh!" Mary said, stamping her foot.
"Born high forever to fly,
Wind -a velocity nil.
Born high forever to fly,
If you want your cup I will fill"
.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm going to splish-splosh then fly off in
vapor ... but if you like I'd like to fill a cup of my Jelloh so you can keep
something of me"
Mary and Shaun departed. They were delayed by their
Mother who had chores for them to do. When they finally returned to
the shed Melloh Jelloh had melted away...except for a small
piece of head where his mouth was.
"If you want your cup I will fill"
Melloh Jelloh said in a whisper.
The children scooped up some
Jelloh...and both cried as they saw the last of Melloh Jelloh melt away. A
sudden wisp of vapor went over them and in the gentle breeze a whispering was
heard:
"Born high forever to fly,
Wind -a velocity nil.
Born high forever to
fly,
If you want, your heart I will fill"
--- The End
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8. "Mellow Yellow" ;by Donovan
I'm just
mad about Saffron ,
Saffron's mad about me
I'm a-just mad about Saffron
,
She's just mad about me.
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow
.
I'm just mad about Fourteen ,
A-Fourteen's mad about me
I'm
a-just a-mad about a-Fourteen ,
She's just mad about me.
They call me
mellow yellow
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me
mellow yellow .
Born high forever to fly,
Wind -a velocity
nil.
Born high forever to fly,
If you want your cup I will fill
.
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow
Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow .
He's so mellow , mellow fellow
Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze .
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase .
They call it mellow yellow Quite
rightly
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow
yellow .
You, ah, Saffron , yeah ,
I'm just mad about her
I'm
a-just a-mad about a-Saffron ,
She's just mad about me.
They call me
mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow .
Oh so mellow , oh so mellow , oh so mellow
.