Hello 
Welcome to Friday. Eleanor from Give A Brick with you again today And welcome to our penultimate literary adventure with Roald Dahl’s Danny, Champion of the World. It is a pleasure to have you here and I hope you are enjoying the little gaunt with Danny and his Dad. Did you get a copy of the book yet? You really should. Roald Dahl is an absolute genius. It’s been a joy for my daughter and me to share these books together. She was fascinated to think that you and I would be talking about it too. I have promised that she can come and read these blog posts one day soon. (In case that day is today, “Hello Em ”)
We’re near the very end of the book with today’s quote. To give you a little necessary background info (and something of a spoiler too so if you do intend reading it, feel free to look away now) Danny and his dad have caught over one hundred pheasants from nasty Victor Hazell’s wood. (Do you remember him? If you weren’t here a fortnight ago and need to go and catch up, you can do so very easily.) They did it by feeding raisins laced with sleeping powder to the pheasants. However, the sleeping powder wore off and many of the birds escaped (you’ll remember I told you about the scene with the scared birds and Hazell’s shiny car?)
Just when Danny and his dad think they have lost, a family friend, Doc Spencer, presents them with a gaggle of very, very sleepy pheasants. I’ll pass the mic to the Doc:
“It seemed fairly obvious that some of those pheasants must have gobbled up more than one raisin each. Some, if they were quick enough, might have swallowed half a dozen each, or even more. In which case they would have received a very heavy dose of sleeping pills and wouldn’t ever wake up. Those were the greedy ones. It never pays to eat more than your fair share!”
Wise words indeed Doc 
This lesson about having more than your fair share can be equally applied to a wider context. Can you think of occasions when it really is better not to be greedy? Are you ever greedy with your time? Or what about someone else’s time? Do you, like me, thrive on love and affection? I don’t believe it’s possible to be too loving or too affectionate. However, there are people who you might describe as greedy with their love, in that they’re so greedy with it, they don’t like to share it around very much
Do you know people who are financially greedy? I’m reminded of the popular quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I stopped watching it years ago, largely because it was so frustrating to see people lose a small fortune purely because they got too greedy.
The list of examples could go on and on but I don’t want to be greedy with your time I’ve had your attention for long enough (for which I thank you ) Instead, it’s now over to you. What speaks to you when you think about greed? Let’s talk about it
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