Seligor's Castle. The home of Seligor, Diddilydeedot, Dodie, and Dr. Do-Diddily and the Dee-Dot's.

Seligor's Castle is where Seligor, Dr. Do-Diddily and the Dee-Dot's,
Diddilydeedot in Dreamland,
and Dodie's Dream World all work on their websites.
They are all within the children range, though Dodie's does have a lot more classical stuff on it and the little ones might find it a bit boring.
I have just opened a couple of wee nursery pages though just in case you have one on your knee, :)

Each site has it's own home page and index, and I have been very careful not to repeat to many rhymes etc, though Toby and Tilly are in both the Castle and Dreamland and now Diddilydeedot around the world. I have mad up most of the play lists from YouTube and google. But please always check these as sometimes you get the odd person who thinks its smart to change the content. I have looked through almost 7,000 videos on you tube alone, so you can imagine how many there are.
Many of the stories, myths tales, rhymes come from books well past their hundredth birthday. I have always collected old books and up until recently sold many on Amazon. But now I use all my spare time on the websites and blogging sites.
Then there are songs to sing, many, many new rhymes to learn and pass on to the future generations.
I have been on line over fours year now and also have my Zoomshare, Wordpress, Delicious, Twitter and Facebook. Best wishes xxx Seligor

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

A Little Girl Picking Flowers. From the pen of the just as brilliant "Willowdown."

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 SELIGOR'S CASTLEAcara Pink Baby
ONE OF THE MOST FUN FILLED CASTLE'S ON THE NET
Just one of the wonderful new poems from
Pete "Willowdown" Crossland
                           
A young girl picking flowers.

Little Girl Picking FlowersA young girl picking flowers
does not count the hours
- to her the passing minutes
have no end or limit...

But in the bank and in the church
the minutes and the hours lurch
and 'though he tries, the priest or clerk
cannot make time flow in reverse.

At bus-stops and train stations
throughout Time's censused nations,
young children skip and pass between
the prison bars of Time's regime;
a young boy has no notion
of life's grim forward motion
but gaily plays with golden things
within the court of deathless Kings.
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Yet Time is father to the man
and holds life's key and master plan
- or so we trust and so we hope,
else all men's lives are but a joke.

But what grown man cannot but dream
of freedom from Time's dull regime?
and fondly he can still recall
prettythe wooden toy and golden ball...

What fortune can such treasure buy?
Let merchant risk his soul to try
- his toil and effort will not yield
a day's release from Time's grey fields.

Yet, penniless, the children play
and own the world and all the day.
The boy that climbs the chestnut tree
partakes of some great Mystery
and the young girl with her flowers
is Queen of all the passing hours!

From the pen of the Wonderful "Willowdown" 

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Come and see the little bugs with Christina Rossetti, it is so nice.

Thu, 16 Jun 2011
Don't hurt the living beings.... a poem by Christina Rossetti. plus a few more that you should enjoy xxx Seligor
                    Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world.Butterfly
Lady BirdLittle BoPeep
Lady BirdHurt No Living Thing
Hurt no living thing,
Ladybird or Butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,Beetles Flying
A Big BeetleNor grasshopper, so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat,
Nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worm that creeps.

                                                                         By Christina Rossetti.

Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world. : Homepage 1

Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world. : http://seligorscastle.zoomshare.com/.27/

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Fairy Stories / Rhymes from the children of yesteryear.


DIDDILYDEEDOT'S DREAM-WORLD

FAIRY STORIES
VERSES WRITTEN BY CHILDREN BEFORE 1937
IF ANY CHILD WHO OF COURSE WILL NOW BE WELL INTO THEIR 70'S CAN REMEMBER WRITING THESE RHYMES/POEMS, IT WOULD BE LOVELY IF YOU COULD GET IN TOUCH WITH ME AT
dottido@hotmail.co.uk 
I WOULD BE VERY PLEASED TO HEAR FROM YOU, MAYBE YOU WENT ON TO BECOME AN AMAZING POET IN YOUR LATER LIFE.


FAIRIES IN THE GLEN
Have you seen the elves and fairies
Down in Greenwood Glen ?
I think I have, I think I have,
I've seen some wee, wee men.

I've seen some pretty fairies, too
With shiny, shimmering wings,
And I've heard some fairy music -
It's so sweet when a fairy sings.
       Patricia Adams (age 9)



FAIRIES
In the land where fairies dwell
There stands a lovely wishing-well.
I wish you could see the fairies there
Washing their golden, curly hair

And there upon a summer night
Sits the Queen in her delight,
Bringing joy to every friend,
Happiness that has no end.
          Joyce Farmer (Age 10)






FAIRY REVELS
With a whisper of tiny voices, a rustling of the breeze
That is very gently stirring the supple green trees,
A hundred little moombeams filtering through the glass,
A million little fairies are dancing on the grass.

A tiny, little fairy band tinkling ts fairy tune,
Whispering out its melody, stealing through the gloom,
With a clash of fairy cymbals, a twirl of fairy feet,
All the dainty fairies fly home to Fairy Street.
                                                               Jean Sanders (Age 12)

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Dodie's Dream World : Blog

Dodie's Dream World : Blog: "Wed, 09 Feb 2011
Stories and Pictures about old Japan


STORIES ABOUT JAPAN

ANNIE R BUTLER

Stories about Japan



Written around 1888, this book by Annie R Butler was published in London by The Religious Tract Society, at 56 Paternoster Row and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard.

After I have finished adding the pictures and some of the text, I will be contacting the Church Missionary Society in London to ask them if they would like to have this copy for their library.

Or if they have a good copy already, if they know of anyone who will benefit it. (At no cost obviously)

I thought I would write out the Preface for the book, that would seem the best way to explain the pictures, along with their captions.



PREFACE

These 'Stories about Japan' are meant for children.

They are a mosaic from many sources; amongst others, from J. J. Rein's learned work on Japan, Sir Edward James Reed's Japan, Miss Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Eugene Stock's masterly resume of the history of Japan and the Japan Mission, and Coleridge's Life and Letters of Xavier; also from various American periodicals - Life and Light, Mission Dayspring, Missionary Link, Helping Hands, Little Helpers, and Children's Work for Children.

I am indebted to the Church Missionary Society, the Baptist Missionary Society, and to the Women's Board of Missins, Boston, for the gift of various back numbers of their publications which throw light upon the country, people, and missions of Japan; and to two friends who have been in that land for verbal and written information on the same subjects. I have also to thank one of these friends - a missionary for many years' experience - for her kindness in criticising the greater part of my manuscript!

A. R. B.

And so lets begin with a wonderful picture of

A Kuruma, or Jinriksha

A Kuruma, or JinrikshaUnless otherwise mentioned, the words are those of Annie R. Butler


'Land of the sun! what foot invades They pagods and thy pillared shades, Thy cavern shrines and idol stones, Thy monachs and their thousand thrones?'

- Moore

There were, so runs the story I have just been reading, in the far back ages - 'In the beginning,' as we should say - three deities dwelling in otherwise uninhabited space. Their names were the Lord of the Centre of Heaven, the Lofty Producer, and the Divine Producer.




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