My question for today is if people or animals keep growing when they are dead.
There are several possibiliites.
One is that they grow and grow and grow and get bigger and bigger and bigger until they explode.
My father thinks that people or animals don't grow when they are dead, but he says that some parts of your body do actually keep growing after death. For example, hair and nails. Toe nails too? Yes, toe nails too. But only for a little bit.
But then we checked on the Internet and found that it's a myth!
What do you think?
I thought that hair and nails went on growing too! I didn't realize it was a myth.
ResponderEliminarSo did you learn something from my blog, Torquil? I think Pa is right, you think Pa is shrinking a bit.
ResponderEliminarFrom my grandfather:
ResponderEliminarDear Iain
In fact you can start shrinking when you're alive. Opa has got
a bit shorter but then he is 94 - or a little over ninety years older
than you are.
Your uncle thinks I have shrunk a bit.
Other people who shrink a couple of centimetres are people
who go into space.
Lots of love
My reply to my grandfather:
ResponderEliminarI hope you are prepared for when we are going to go to Edinburgh.
Mummy was has told me that she has a cousin called Toby and he'll be in Edinburgh when we are. Toby is the name of the hound in The Fox and the Hound! Do you know the film? If you don't, we can take it to Edinburgh to show you.
I have a book about shrinking. It's called The Shrinking of Treehorn, by Florence Parry Heide with Drawings by Edward Gorey. I'll bring it to Edinburgh if you like too.
Good luck!
Iain
And my reply to my grandfather:
ResponderEliminarDear Pa,
I hope you are prepared for when we are going to go to Edinburgh.
Mummy was has told me that she has a cousin called Toby and he'll be in Edinburgh when we are. Toby is the name of the hound in The Fox and the Hound! Do you know the film? If you don't, we can take it to Edinburgh to show you.
I have a book about shrinking. It's called The Shrinking of Treehorn, by Florence Parry Heide with Drawings by Edward Gorey. I'll bring it to Edinburgh if you like too.
Good luck!
Iain