Lawrence Haycocks

• (Age) ... 7
• (Sex) ... boy
• (What you look like) ... Dark brown hair, brown eyes, 3ft 3ins etc.
• (Mum's job) ... House keeper.
• (Dad's job) ... Male nurse
• (Pets) ... cats called Ginger and Freckles.
• (Type of house) ... Bungalow on housing estate
• (school) ... primary
• (Hobbies) ... taking things to bits
• (Best Friends) ... Bob aged 9 ... Lucy aged 8
• (Any other brief information you want to give me to help me write the story) ... Dear Babette, Please write a Birthday Story for Lawrence. His Birthday is on April Ist 2001. Thanks, Carol Haycocks.

Dear Carol, Here is Lawrence’s story. I hope you all like it and have a good giggle!

Love....Babette

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAWRENCE by BABETTE COLE

Lawrence Haycocks had a dangerous habit! He took things to bits.

His mum and dad, who were not rich, found this very distressing, especially when his Mum came home from work and found Lawrence had dismantled the washing machine.

"Leave him alone, Carol" said Mr Haycocks to his wife, "he’s just a boy".

Poor Mrs Haycocks then had to do all the washing by hand! Then there was the time when Lawrence took his Dad's lawnmower apart.

"Leave him alone Clive," said Mrs Haycocks, "he's just a boy!" Mr Haycocks cut the lawn with a pair of kitchen scissors.

"What happens if he dismantles the toilet" said Ginger, one of their cats.

"He has", said his friend Freckles, "they're using a bucket!".

Lawrence dismantled so many things that Mr and Mrs Haycocks had a job replacing them.

"It’s his birthday soon", said Ginger, "April the first isn’t it?"

"We are now so poor" said Carol, "that we can’t afford any presents for him. We spent all our savings on replacing the things he’s taken to bits!"

"H'mm," said Ginger. Ginger and Freckles consulted all the other cats in their neighbourhood. They were truly sorry for them.

"Good job you haven’t got a computer, Ginge," said Tiger Watson.

"Have your human owners, got any old telly’s, telephones, fridges, microwaves etc.?" asked Ginger.

"Sure" came the reply, "they don't know what to do with them!"

On the morning of 1st April 2001 the Haycocks garden was full of old fridges, T.V.’s, ovens, cars, enough junk to keep Lawrence going for a year.

"Happy Birthday, Lawrence," said Ginger and Freckles.

"Happy Birthday Lawrence!" said his Mum and Dad.

"Oh WOW COOL MAN!" said Lawrence and set to work with the new screwdriver his friend Bob had given him. (He secretly wanted to impress his girl friend, Lucy, with how quickly he could take the whole lot to bits!) By his next birthday, Lawrence was bored with taking things apart and started to put things together.

He couldn’t quite put them back the way they were but by Dad’s birthday he had assembled most of it into a good stab of a helicopter.

"Happy Birthday, Dad!" said Lawrence.

There was still a load of stuff left over so by the time Mum’s birthday came around he had constructed a kind of hood hair dryer.

"Happy Birthday Mum!" said Lawrence.

He made Freckles an automatic mouse catching machine for his, and by the time it came round to Ginger’s birthday....

Well he got a catputor (of sorts)!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAWRENCE!
Love from,
Babette Cole