Bonjour! Itâs Nancy here â from the soon-to-be world famous pop group Nancy and the Meerkats!
After our first record âPut Your Paws Upâ became a massive hit, weâre off on a huge tour of the UK!
We havenât quite made it to stadium status yet â some of the venues are more Weeny than Wembley â but Iâm going to be letting you know whatâs been going on each day in my journal for Fun Kids!
Weâve just finished the soundcheck for tonightâs concert in Edinburgh! Soundchecks are meant to be loud but this one was loud for all the wrong reasons â we couldnât stop arguing!
It all started when I ordered these amazing new costumes for the girls but they refused to wear them!
The girls thought they were a bit too colourful and we could end up blinding the audience with the mirrors they were covered in rather than our amazing tunes!
OK so maybe I see where they were coming from⊠but I won them round in the end!
Basically, I got the idea from this kaleidoscope I got in a toyshop. Edinburgh is chouette for shopping!
You look through a tube and when you turn it you see lots of beautiful colourful patterns!
Inside the tube is a load of tiny mirrors, see at an angle, and at the bottom are little pieces of coloured glass.
These pieces of glass are what make all the amazing patterns â just like magic! Câest magnifique!
Big Joe says they were invented right here in Edinburgh 200 ago!
Apparently the inventor, David Brewster named his invention after the Greek words, kalos or beautiful, eidos or form, and scopos or watcher â or the beautiful form watcher!
Kaleidoscopeâs donât really do anything useful⊠but they are nice to look at â unlike that horrible hairball Kitty Perry!
Sheâs been saying even more mean things to try and spoil our tour!
Big Joe found some posters backstage saying âIf youâre going to Nancy & The Meerkats tonight donât forget your sunglasses to protect your eyes from the girls outfits, theyâre as ugly and loud as the band!â
Big Joeâs always got a plan though and he thought this would be a great opportunity to hand out our cool Nancy and the Meerkats sunglasses!
Thatâll put Kitty Perry well and truly in the shade!
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