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Smartie Smorg
Smorg, the smiling Smartie (Smorg is short for Smorgasbord but we won't go down that route just now), was feeling smug. He had managed to smack the rest of the Smarties so hard they had sprinted from the tube for all the world like a cloud of multi-coloured smog and was now feeling very relaxed.
He lay back with an enormous smile on his face and thought about Smidgeon the Starburst with whom he was totally smitten and how well the two of them must look together.
He was dreaming happily when his mobile chirped from deep in his trouser pocket. It was Smidgeon.
"Hey Smorg" she munched in his ear "Could you come over right now please, I am in a spot of bother".
Smorg lept to his feet and rushed out of the tube. When he had picked himself back up (he had forgotten he had put the lid back in to stop those other Smarties from getting back) he carefully opened the lid and, in one smooth movement, slid out of the gap.
Before he could take breath he was, quite simply, smothered by a rainbow of bodies. They smelled somehow chocolatey and sickeningly sweet and he found it hard to breathe.
Bits of his candy coating started to fly off like smudges of paint and he was becoming more and more dismayed. He punched and pulled as hard as he could and finally battled his way from the pile of his , by now, quite melted and dishevelled looking "friends and family".
As his eyes cleared he saw, there, right in front of him, that beautiful Smidgeon
Starburst, rocking backwards and forwards on her heels laughing fit to burst.
"That will teach you Smorg" she gurgled "Never think you are the smartest cookie in the packet, or the smartest Smartie in the tube! You were heading for a fall and you just about got one didn't you?"
Smorg's head went down, his battered body seemed to shrivel (well it had shrivelled I suppose but it just looked as if it had shrivelled more than it had if you see what I mean) and he trailed away, dragging his feet (and a rather revolting slime of chocolate stuff) behind him.
I would love to tell you that Smidgeon relented and ran after him declaring mad undying love for him but I do have to be honest you know and the fact was that Smidgeon and the other smarties held an enormous party with fireworks and coloured smoke and all kinds of fun well into the night.She ended up running away with Smilton, Smorg's cousin who was very "big" in teeth filling material (a little side-line he had developed over the years) and they lived happily ever after.
Smorg? Well he did have a few more adventures but each one more dismaying than the last so I think we will just leave it there!
1. Just remind me of what Smorg was short for?
2. What colour smog did all the Smarties look like when Smorg smacked them out of the tube?
3. Who was Smorg dreaming about?
4. What happened when Smorg tried to rush out of the tube?
5. Who did Smidgeon run away with?
6. Think of three things Smidgeon and the Smarties may have had to eat at their party.
