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Aggie	Ooooo Look! That tree’s gone and fallen over.
Bettie	Oh dear! Are you sure it fell over?
Aggie	Of course it did, it wouldn’t just appear there.
Bettie	Hmmmm, how do you know? You know what the say.
Aggie	What? That trees don’t fall over they just appear there. That’s silly, I seen a tree fall over when I was a little girl.
Bettie	I see one fall just last week. Big thing it was, came crashing to the ground and knocked a little tree over too.
Aggie	The tree I saw when I was a little girl was enormous and thundered to the ground taking two other trees with it. Big trees they were too.
Bettie	Coo, what a sight. I bet it hurt your ears all that noise.
Aggie	Oh yes. So noisy it made my ears bleed. You don’t get trees crashing to the ground like that nowadays.
Bettie	No, much quieter trees nowadays.
Aggie	So what do they say?
Bettie	Eh?
Aggie	What do they say about the trees?
Bettie	Oh that. You know. ‘If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound?’
Aggie	Do they? What a silly thing to say. Trees are always noisy when they fall.
Bettie	But what if it didn’t fall?
Aggie	Eh? It did fall you just said it did.
Bettie	No I never.
Aggie	You did. You said it fell without making a sound ‘coz no one heard it.
Bettie	But if it fell without making a sound., did it fall?
Aggie	It did fall. It can’t get on the ground otherwise.
Bettie	But you said all trees make a noise when they fall. So if it didn’t make a noise it couldn’t have fallen.
Aggie	Cooo! I think you’re right. Do you know there could be trees all over the place that we don’t hear that are standing up one day and laying on the ground the next.
Bettie	It makes you think doesn’t it?
Aggie	Does it? I suppose it does.
Bettie	Oh yes, it definitely makes you think. Think about all those lumberjacks.
Aggie	Ooooo! All those muscley lumberjacks with their big choppers.
Bettie	Oh yes! Can’t forget their big choppers.
Aggie	I wouldn’t mind a lumberjack at home. With his muscles and big chopper.
Bettie	Alfie wouldn’t like it though.
Aggie	No, poor Alfie. He wouldn’t like it at all. Anyway why are we thinking about them?
Bettie	Thinking about who?
Aggie	The lumberjacks.
Bettie	Oh them! Oh yes! Well all that hard work they do, there’s no need fo it.
Aggie	There isn’t?
Bettie	Oooh no! They should all leave the woods and wait for the trees to appear on the ground, save all the chopping.
Aggie	Ooooo yes! So it would. Be a lot easier. They can get on with their singing then.
Bettie	Singing, do they sing then?
Aggie	Oooo yes! Haven’t you seen them on the telly? Singing about chopping down trees and dressing up.
Bettie	They’ll just have to sing about waiting for trees now.
Aggie	And dressing up.
Bettie	Ooooo yes! Can’t forget the dressing up. What do they dress up in?
Aggie	I don’t know. Something to do with hanging in bars.
Bettie	Hanging on bars. Like the gymnasts? I wouldn’t really call putting on a tracksuit dressing up.
Aggie	Well they are lumberjacks.
Bettie	Yes, yes, that is true.
Aggie	Oh look! Another tree.
Bettie	I wonder if that one fell.
Aggie	I bet it made a lot of noise if it did.
Bettie	Yes, big crashing noises like thunder.
Aggie	Oh yes! I’ve always liked the noise of thunder.
Bettie	Yes, and the crackle of lightning.
Aggie	Lightning doesn’t make a noise. If it did I’m sure it would be a whizz not a crackle.
Bettie	It sort of gives a crackley feeling. You know, all that natural electricity.
Aggie	Coo yes, the electricity. Especially the blue ones.
Bettie	Yes much nicer than the white lightning.
Aggie	Yes. Alfie likes the blue electricity too.
Bettie	No dear, I think its Electric Blue that Alfie likes.
Aggie	Oh yes. Though he does get breathless after watching it for a few minutes.
Bettie	Well the lightning always does that to me.
Aggie	Ooooooooo look! Another tree.
Bettie	Oooooooo yes! There’s something sitting on it. Can’t quite make it out.
Aggie	It’s quite small and has a fuzzy face.
Bettie	Oooooh! Is there a helicopter near by?
Aggie	A Helicopter?
Bettie	Yes, if there is it’s probably Noel Edmonds.
Aggie	No, it has a bushy tail though.
Bettie	Oh. Then it’s a squirrel. That’s how you tell the difference between them.
Aggie	I see. So Noel has a helicopter and squirrels have bushy tails.
Bettie	That’s right.
Aggie	Well let’s go and get a nice cup of tea.
Bettie	Oooo! That’s a good idea. We can have a mindless natter over it. We get so little time for mindless natters nowadays.
Aggie	Yes. Got all this philosophical thinking to do about trees.
Bettie	And Noel Edmonds.
Aggie	Oh yes! Can’t forget Noel Edmonds.

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