Heavens above!

Welcome to 2023 and a new series of (hopefully) interesting snippets of information for you to enjoy.

This month is just a little teaser of what I’m going to be looking at in more detail as the year progresses.

So…do these funny little sentences mean anything to you?

• My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas

• Many vile earthlings make jam sandwiches under newspaper piles!

• My vicious earthworm might just swallow us now (perhaps)!

• Or my personal favourite (with a little bit extra)

• Sam, my very energetic mouse, jumped straight up Nellie’s petticoat!

They may be random and nonsensical but they are all connected.

They are all mnemonics (posh word!) to help you to remember the order of the Planets of the Solar System.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

Now, I have used a bit of artistic licence. First of all I know Pluto is no longer on the list of planets as it was downgraded to a Dwarf Planet in 2006 and in the one about that cheeky mouse Sam, the ‘S’ stands for the Sun which I know isn’t a planet at all but a star but it helps with the narrative! Also to be honest adding in those two as extras helps to fill the months that I need to do a bit of writing for!

So it’s a very short and sweet piece for January but I look forward to you joining me next month for a look at the massive star that is the Sun (though remember never to look directly at it; Health and Safety at all times) and then we will work our way through the Solar System using which ever silly sentence you like to remember the correct order!

By Pam Waggott References.

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