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SEND ME STUFF to: YOUR SHOUT th Guy I need more th JB: The You ings to put in thi me s newsletter! Get a joke, story, or involved and po 11 Greenfield review, and I’ll se st or email nd you something scent to say thanks! April/ Cre Issue 5 May 2009 Edgbaston Birmingham NEWSFLASH! B15 3AU What happened @ Do you want to LHM last month... Phone: 0121 455 8982 I couldn't make it to the fun run at Leeds Castle, but loads of you did, Mobile: 07590 531153 ♦ I met with a few more go… lhm.org.uk and made sure that you had a of the people who are email: jon@ brilliant time. going to be making the Andrew Kerry is wonderfully Over The Wall? demonstrating how important it is to Activity Weekend wrap up warm when it gets cold! AMAZING. Very Hello Zippers, or anyone else that has excited about it now. happened to pick this up! Jokes... ♦ Captain Kev organised Riddle me this... an incredible fun-run Well I guess that you’ve gone back to school (booo!) HERE ARE A FEW MORE It was the end of the school year, and but the sun is out and the weather has been fine RIDDLES OR YOU AND YOUR in Kent. Loads of (yaay!). What are you doing to keep yourself busy, Lucy McAllister sent in these first a primary school teacher was FAMILY TO TRY AND CRACK: anything wonderfully exciting? A new rock climbing two riddles. I still haven’t managed receiving gifts from her pupils. The runners helped to florist's son handed her a gift. She club has just opened up near me so I’m thinking of to crack them yet, any ideas? raise loads of money took it, shook it, and said, "I bet I giving that a bash, what do you think? A farmer says: “I have ten or for LHM! What's white when it’s dirty? know what it is: flowers." "That's more daughters. I have fewer About the headline: I know what you’re thinking, what right!" the boy said, "But, how did ♦ SGUD emailed me to than ten daughters. I have at the heck is “Over The Wall?!” Well, basically, they are The more you take away, the you know?" least one daughter.” If only tell me that the a charity which does awesome camps for kids who larger it becomes. What is it? have spent some time in hospital with a serious one of these statements is true, "Oh, just a wild guess," she said. The website is being have spent some time in hospital with a serious condition. The best way for you to find out all how many daughters has he? next pupil was the sweet shop finished, and that it about them is to go on their website: Here are the answers to last month’s owner's daughter. The teacher took www.overthewall.org.uk riddles: There is a frog stuck in a 60- the gift, shook it, and said, "I bet I will be ready to use by foot-deep well. How many days can guess what it is. A box of sweets." the middle of June. As you can see, they do archery, wall climbing, media and film work, and all sorts of cool stuff. The camp is 1. The carpet, or the banister will it take the frog to get out "That's right, but how did you know?" and film work, and all sorts of cool stuff. The camp is ♦ Suzie has been for a whole week with no parents, and because it is a if every day he jumps five feet asked the girl. "Oh, just a wild charity, it is all completely free. 2. Fire! up, but then slides back three guess," said the teacher. working with SGUD to feet? finish the Antenatal One or two of you might have even been on one of the 3. A Cold. The next gift was from the son of the camps. If you have let me know, or write in and tell off-licence storeowner. The teacher DVD. This is a DVD people how it is. I went and worked with them for a While walking across a bridge 4. A car, or a washing machine. took the package, but it was leaking. which can help week over Easter and had sooo much fun. Just I saw a boat full of people. Yet She touched a drop off the leakage parents who are thought you’d like to know. 5. A match. on the boat there wasn't a with her finger and put it to her single person. Why? tongue. "Is it wine?" she asked. "No," pregnant with a heart 6. A postage stamp. the boy replied, with some baby. What falls but never breaks? excitement. The teacher repeated the 7. A towel. process, tasting a much larger drop of ♦ The message-boards AND THE WINNER If there are two houses next the liquid. "Is it champagne?" she on the main 8. A sponge door to each other and each asked. "No," the boy replied, with lhm.org.uk website IS... house has a garden and the 9. Darkness, or fog more excitement. The teacher took haven't been as active man that lives in one of the one more big long taste before A HUGE houses has a peacock that lays as usual. :( If your congratulations 10. Stars! declaring, "I give up, what is it?" to Hannah, an egg in the other man’s With great glee, the boy replied, "It's mum or dad have been garden, whose egg is it?? who has How many did you get right? a puppy!" SURPRISE! having trouble logging designed Send in your jokes to on Gwen can help, call this wonderful new logo for the LHM Youth [email protected] Council. This will now be the official Youth 0121 455 8982 ! Council Logo. Your prize is on its way! Patron Baroness Howarth of Breckland OBE A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales, number 06442071, registered office 11 Greenfield Crescent, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 3AU Registered charity number 1123290 Age 12 EVIE FAIRMAN Heart Condition: HLHS I became an LHM Youth Councillor because I felt like I should give a bit more of me to LHM so that I CHAIRPERSON can help. I would like to achieve more advertising and raise money to get more equipment to help people with hearts like me. Carys Allen I think the hardest thing about having a heart condition is that you get puffed out a lot and sometimes have to sit out of PE! Age: 12 All about me! I have 12 cousins, and 10 of them live within 20 miles of my house! My funniest memory is when my brother fell down the toilet and got stuck. At the weekends and after school I like t go Heart Condition: Hypoplastic down to the river with my mates from the village. If I’m feeling low, I normally go to the park, and call Left Heart Syndrom my mates up to meet me there. When I’m hyper, I get on my mum’s nerves by laughing too much :) One thing that I want to achieve by the end of the year is to read more books! Why I became I became a Councillor because I wanted Age: 11 a Youth to help LHM, because they have helped Councillor… me. SOPHIE GREEN Heart Condition: HLHS I wanted to become a member of the LHM youth council because I wanted to have a say on what is What I want to I want to make sure that LHM comes up happening in the charity. I want there to be more opportunities for the children to get together because achieve for with new ideas for fundraising and ideas sometimes (this has happened to me before) people cannot make the Open Days but want to. Also, I want LHM… for helping other young members. there to be a monthly magazine just for children, written by children, with games, pictures and stuff about our heart problem (but in a simplified version). I think that once every few months, some of us should write in the magazine about things we have done. The hardest thing The hardest things about having a heart condition are concentrating, physical I think that the hardest thing about having a heart problem is that I sometimes cannot do as many things The people on these pages are the young members about having a as other people and I get tired easily. Once, when I was playing rounders with my sisters in the garden, a activity and explaining to new people who have decided that they want to make a real heart condition is: funny thing happened. When it was my turn to bat, they expected me to miss the ball, or not hit it very far. about my heart. But I hit it so hard, the ball went in the next garden and I got a whole rounder! It shows that people will difference to Little Hearts Matter. They will make not always do what you expect. sure that you have your say, and that it’s heard by An interesting I am a vegetarian! My favourite hobbies When I am feeling low, I usually sit down , watch some TV or talk to my family. But, when I am hyper I run the decision makers in the charity. fact about myself are dance and drama.