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Tock the Tick's Rock Around the Clock

Posted by Jacqueline Richards

Language point: quiz on time

Tock the tick was a bopping bug. He wanted to go in search of the greatest one o' clock, two o' clock, three o' clock rock around the clock. He gargled on moss sap to lubricate his vocal chords and went mussel building to walrus warm up, humming the tune to "Hickory Dickory Dock" - he forgot the words, though when the clock struck - do you know ? A quick crab crawl call to his other old mates in the rest of the reptile band - Beach Banjo, Violet the Violin, Cello & Clapperboard Claw Crab, Harry Harmonica, Dingo Drum and Super Star Starfish with whom he had spent a lot of time in the past surfing the waves with his chums. The starting whistle blew and so off he set - swinging on the seconds hand. The first twenty minutes were slow and steady at first, before the pendulum started to pick up speed and rock tock around the clock tickingly.

A Quick Quiz
How many seconds are in a minute ?
How many days are there in a year ?
How many months are there in a year ?
How many weeks are there in a year ?
How many minutes are there in an hour ?
How many days are there in a leap year ?

By one a.m., Tock the Tick was just gathering up speed. He hopped onto two o' clock and slid down to the number three. A quarter of the way into his round the clock rock. To a rock 'n' roll tick tock beat, his cardiac rhythm continued. He took a tick tock train in first clock class to four o' clock - a tea - stop. "One rock or two in your cocoa ? ", the perfectly ticking Cockney Clock host time - keeper with a timeless hourglass figure of Ye Olde English Grandfather Clock Coffee Pot Shop inquired as Tock hung up his umbrella in the Clock Cloakroom.

Ye Olde English Grandfather Clock Coffee Pot Shop Marine Menu

Past prawn clocktail
Previous shrimp salad
Weeks of winter warm worm soup
Saturday night spare ribs

Clock circular chops marinated a long time ago
A century of clock chicken in clock choux perennial pastry
Sundial Steak seasoned with spring and summer
Ages of noon and night poached salmon with annals of annual anchovies
Lifelong liver and onions flashed in the pan
Nine day wonder king prawn nuggets at the hop
Immortal insect plaice pasta in minced mullet minute mustard sauce
Outlasted oily mackerel with onion winter and autumn seasoning
Tick Tock tender tarragon turbot with rock 'n' roll roe relish
Tick Tock tuna in time tartar sauce with shake, rattle 'n' roll salt 'n' vinegar
Tick Tock trout and annual almonds with a let's twist again lemon and lime sprinkle
Chutney Clock club sandwiches on chunks of clock bread and/or rock 'n' roll rolls
Hour after hour haddock with home made herring gravy
Future fried fish fingers with fillets of fresh peas

Caterpillar chrysalis and caviar clock crackers
Buddy Holly Bicentenary biscuits
Sunday salmon sundaes
Lemon and lime fish fool swimming in cream
Toffee tick tock truffles
Shoals of summer strawberry pudding
Monday melon mousse
Peach, pear and pineapple present praline
Fats Domino Jambalaya

Clock coffee and time tea with mollusc us mints

At various times, he nibbled on Clockwork orange cheesecake with clumps of clotted clock cream and chit - chatted tick - tockingly to the other clock customers. Tick tacked his souvenir train ticket into the album of his trip and scribbled a minute’s memo to Bango to get the strings repaired. Seconds seahorse later, Tock was off again on his tick tock trip. The inner cog of the clock clunked and clanked, clapped and clashed grindingly, as Tock the Tick clicked his way around the clock circuit in the direction of Clock Cathedral to meet clock clergy and pray for a safe tick tock trip in Clock cloisters and World Without End. Amen. At the moment he climbed Clock circumvent spiral he viewed the cliffs and eternal evergreens. In the clear cathedral air, the clock choristers chorally chipped Cicero clock classic "Come O' Ye Faithful Fish" as well as "Crown the Clock with Many Crowns" and the chrome civic church bell chimed. He remembered he had bought tick tock choc chip and cinnamon cookies so he fed the canary cocks that were clicking and clocking on the Clock Cathedral Churchyard cobbles. He cast a chuck - farthing in the Church Clarity Charity box in aid of Children Clocks Shellfish Shelter in China.

Five o' clock fit Tock the Tick like a hand in glove. For the event Tock the Tick chose his best bug brocade with flea fastenings and polished up his Tick Tock tucker clad. He dabbed on scent of Eternity eau de tick tock toilette behind his fashionable feelers. In truly clock chic, Clock collapsed in cocks of chuckles at the Clock Clown Circus when he saw the choreographed cockleshells clog dancing. Indian chief clock got another feather in his cloth cap as he narrowly missed arrows at the churlish clams. Lots of other ticks clamoured to see the Flea Circus and the crowd clapped and clashed in almanac applause at the Tickettes on the Tick Tock Trapeze. Tock the Tick and had his future told by the Clairvoyant clock and played in a Clock chess championship with his chums. At half past the hour, he had heard, the number six was jewelled with pearls, diamonds, emeralds and rubies, so he was keen to get there as quickly as possible.

Once Tock the tick had reached the full semi-circle on his journey, he rested, he knew he had a long uphill journey ahead of him. Spinning in circles another five minutes on, he catapulted himself the next few seconds then took deep breaths. "Don't look down" he thought to himself, now on an upwards slope. The rocking Round the Clock Rockettes had a booking at short notice at the "Perpetuity Pub" in Greenwich mean - time. They got the cheery clock crowd to clap together in a count down on both hands as they sang the tuna by the Newsbeats - "Bread and Butter" from the swinging seaside sixties. Next was a seventies shellfish hit - "Angelfish Face" by the Glitter Band. Mamas & Papa Sea lion's "Monday, Monday", Little Richard's "Tutti Fruitti", Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" and "Let's Twist Again" all got a rapturous reception. The Hound Dog hall was decorated with tick tock tinsel and glistened with Good Golly Miss Molly lights and the crowd clacked and clanked at the mollusc us musical. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Went the clock.

The pendulum swung in the direction of twenty-five minutes to the hour - he hopskotched on the minutes marks - where Tock the tick bought a ticket for the Doomsday Draw at the fish - shop - he was alarmed at the minutes of multi - form which he had to fill in to enter. He was going to have to watch Clock Channel Satellite TV in Tick Tock time for the winning results of the new semester. Tock cycled on a fish tail fish trail in twilight hours to the "At the Hop" Fisherman Film Centre where a Cliff Hanger was showing at cinema - Anno Domini - a dramatic biblical tale set in the decade of Christian crustaceans. The clock of tickets were reduced for more senior elder ticks. The film seemed to last an infinity - thank Rome for the insect interval when Tock the Tick took 5 minutes out to nip to the tick toilet and buy some Years of Clock Chips. He had had his feelers crossed the whole time. In the endless ending, all the ticks were fished, of course. Outside, the Club car got clamped in the fishpond by so he had to claim on the clam & insect insurance and get a sailing boat instead.

As the month elapsed to 45 minutes past, while Tick Tock Chubby Checkered, blues and soul hit the fishing boat and Tock had to bail out. Across the horizon, in the direction of quarter past the hour, he saw high waves heading towards him. He swam to the shore and settled down for the night. The pitter patter of raindrops could just be heard on the window pane as he rested under seaweed on a rock on this round of his rock around the clock tour. Against the constant clatter of the jellyfish and jaws, sharks shattered the seafront and lightening flashes shook shivering Tock the tick till midnight. At ten to tick - when Tock was truly thunderbolt tired and washed up - Tock finally fell in a deep sea sleep. He snoozed saltily and snored like a submarine until the final hour clock tolled. Overall, Tock the Tick was quite chuffed at a really cock - a - hoop rock around the clock.

recipe
Home-Made Lemon Jellyfish
Ingredients
250 mls water
15g gelatine
100g caster sugar
Rind and juice of three lemons
3 egg whites

Place the water and the gelatine into the a small saucepan and leave to soak for five minutes. Add the sugar, rind of lemon and juice. Place the pan over a light heat, allowing the gelatine and sugar to dissolve, but do not allow the mixture to boil. Remove from the heat and strain into a large mixing bowl then leave until cold. Add the egg whites and with an electric mixer, whisk the jelly until it is foamy and beginning to set. This will take at least 10 minutes (but you can speed up the process by placing the bowl in ice). Pour into individual bowls and chill for 3-4 hours. Before serving, prepare a seaweed bed of multi - coloured marzipan strips for the arms and legs of the jellyfish before tipping out the jellies upside - down on top.

© Jacqueline Richards 2005

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