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Brittonito
WARNING! ADULT CONTENT! For MATURE GRITOS ONLY - PART 2!
Hello! I am so shocked and also a little bit proud and confused because I am looking at my MySpace inbox with La Fille Ska and we are finding....THIS!
HOW SHOCKING!
La Fille Ska has covered up some of the pink human skin for "public decency" and before my little eyes could see it all, but she is letting me put it on here because it is funny that a naughty lady like her (her name is Julia) should fall in love with a little Grito like me!
Does she not know that my heart belongs to Eliza Day? 
(Eliza day is the lady on the right...in the middle is Liz, her human, and on the left is MY KING!)
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Bright Town Calling!
Hello everyone! It is me, little Brittonito here, reporting from the Bright Town in the England! I am sure you are all thinking that I have done a magic trick and vanished myself away for months and months! It is not quite this, but I have been gone for long time. Sad things happened to my Fille Ska and I watched her crying a lot until a lovely man called Tom came and dried the water that fell from her eyes and gave her lots of “calins” (this means to hold someone that you care about very tight in your arms and squeeze them until they are smiling again). He is a man with internet so now I am saved and I can write to you all again! I hear from la Fille Ska that things are going very wrong here on 20six and that the Army of the 12 Gritos may be ending as we know it, but I wanted to make as many bloggle entries before I lose my chance! First, I remind you where I am
No no, it is not St Tropez, it is the beach here at the ffice:smarttags" />Bright Town in the summer time! I am posting this to remind us that the summer is coming back, because it is very cold here next to the big sea at the moment!
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Ah! But I have such things to tell you all!! I have been “clubbing” with La Fille Ska and her friends:
That man is trying to eat me?!
“clubbing” is not where you hit people with big things, it is where people go and drink alcohol and dance to big loud fast musics! It is great fun J
There has been a lot of drinking this: 
And no more smoking these, as la Fille Ska has quitted the evil cigarettes! 
Best of all, I went in a car with my host and her Tom to this big place called Norwich. La Ska tells me this is where she is living before she comes to Bright Town. She has soent many happy years there, studying and working and partying. This is also where her wonderful bloggle is starting, in 2003!
This is the big library called “The Forum” where the Slytherin Dorm was born! Historic place!
This is the castle in Norwich. I am thinking it is looking like a lego! My host tells me that a Monty Python sketch was filmed there many years ago with knights jumping off the top!
The castle has pretty gardens – not as good as ones in Paris of course – and so we enjoyed some lunch there. But it was very cold in Norwich, so I jumped into Tom’s coat!
More soon, I promising you dear friends! A SPECIAL report on an amazing tower, and an interview with the Government!!
Kisses and Calins from Brittonito, the little Grito in the big Bright Town xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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X-RATED! ADULT CONTENT - for growed up Gritos only! (sorry Grangrito!)
Aha! Before I say more I must first say that Amegrito started it, La Femme Machine helped, and Ma Fille Ska let me do it!
There was a party at the new house that we live in (I will tell more of this another time) for the birthday of the Man called Miles (and I wonder, if he was in France, would I call him Kilometre?) that lives there too...there was a lot of drinking and happiness and nice people - and then AMAZING!!! These beautiful girls arrived and partied with us all night! They were the very famous Suicide Girls!! I was so happy!! They said that Amegrito had told them about me and they said that they wanted to come and party with another such cool a Grito! Dear King, have you seen them in Brussels yet?
Ah, look how beautiful they are  I am a very happy Grito and I am grinning from one ear to the other ear!!
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The Mermaid and the riddle of Bright Town...
Firstly, I must thank the people who crossed their toes and their fingers for me, because there was sunshine this weekend and Brittonito got to go to the beach!! Yayness!! (I am learning fast the ways to communicate well with La Fille Ska, also with the jumping and the shouting too, but with less big shoes…)
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This is the beach at ffice:smarttags" />Bright Town:
This is the very very very big sea, and far away is Gritoland…I screw up my eyes but I cannot see it from here. I do feel good to know that my King is there somewhere though. As you can see, there is no sand on this beach, instead it is covered with lots of little stones. These are good to throw into the sea, they make a good “sploooush” noise! Also, here at Bright Town, they have a thing which is called “Pier”. I ask La Fille Ska what it is, “Pier”, and she is explaining that it is like a bridge that goes out over the waves of the sea, and that there are many fun things to do and see on it. She says this is where she met the “Dalek” once before. I am not understanding this, but she tells me that people who are reading her bloggery will know what this is. Once there were two of these “Piers” in Bright Town, “West Pier” and “Palace Pier”, but “West Pier” is now old and broken. People cannot go onto it anymore, and this made me sad…I think I will La Fille Ska about this more another time. So now we have the “Pier” and it is very big:
Beacause the sun was very hot, I took off my Incognito Skarf (La Fille Ska says this is a clever joke on the word scarf, because it is black and white) and sat in the sun:
La Fille Ska told me not to sit in the sun for too long, or my skin would get burned. Burned? Would I catch on fire? Is the sun doing this? Would I have to jump in the sea to stop the fire? I ask these many questions to my Fille Ska, and she reminds me of the things that La Femme Machine told to my brother Amegrito before about the sunshine. As she says, the sun can burn the skin of humans, like her, but that maybe I will be OK because I have Grito skin, and that is already very brown. She explains to me that her little taches de rousseur are from the sun, where he is kissing her skin, but that she will burn very quickly if she does not use “sun screen”. I now understand more about humans, my host is very clever!
Then something very strange happened...there was a big splash and a soft voice said "hello, little Grito!" to me - there was a lady who was half a fish and half very beautiful woman sitting next to me! She tells me her name is Bettie and that she is a "Mermaid". I know that these are very rare creatures and that I am lucky to meet her!
Brittonito and Bettie
We are wispering about all the magics and mysteries of the sea, and I am wanting to ask her "do you know, oh beautiful Mermaid, why they are calling it Bright Town?", but I find that I am falling asleep with the softness of her voice because suddenly, I wake up to hear a pretty music coming from behind me! I see that my Mermaid has gone, and instead I am can hear the sounds of the carosel!
The carosel and the shy lady, she does not want to be in my photo!
I ask La Fille Ska if we can have a go on the carosel, and she says maybe, perhaps, later, we shall see. "First," she says, "we shall have a little something to eat in the Pavilion Park!" and away we go!
Here I am sitting happily in the park, eating Toblerone chocolate and drinking pink grape juice! No, it is not rosé, because it is too early in the day for this!
Look at the size of this bird! I hope he doesn't want my lunch!
After a good time in the park, and a little sleep to make us all feel refreshed, it was now getting darker, and La Fille Ska tells me that we are going back to the beach again. I thought this was very strange, because in the dark, I would not be able to see the sea and I might fall in it, but NO! Finally, I see why they are calling this place the Bright Town! Everywhere along the beach there are many, many light, and even fire-works coming from a big boat on the sea! Bang! Bang bang!! It was amazing!! But too quick to take a good photo! Still, it was good, so you must hear my words and try to imagine this for yourselves. Even the carosel had lights on it!
It is the same Pier, but all glowing in the dark!
Oh! Oh, the carosel is all lighted too!
But then I was a sad Grito, because the very big man who was in charge of the carosel is telling me that I am too small to go on this ride today  He is letting La Fille Ska go on it, but not me I must eat a lot more chocolate and cakes and drink strong wines before I can go on this - I must get as big as Grangrito!! So, for this time, I am just watching my Ska on her horse...can you see her?
Oh look, there she is! I am very jealous!
So today, I am learning that I must get bigger, that Mermaids are very beautiful and finally, I am learning the meaning of "Bright Town"! Yayness!
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The Palace and the Perfumerie – day 2 in Bright Town
Today I woke with a big jump and shouted out “where do we go to today Miss Fille Ska?” She was making me espresso in the kitchen and she tells me that today she must have something called a “Job Inter View”. I am asking her what this is and she is explaining that humans must have these things called “Jobs”. If you have a “Job” then someone gives you money for it, and then you can buy good things like cake and beers. I am wondering what kind of a “Job” she is wanting to have, I mean, do they come in different colours and sizes? Do they make chocolate flavoured ones? But she is already telling me that this is for a good “Job” and that it is in the ffice:smarttags" />Bight Town (“well, Hove, actually” she says) and we must get a train there! How exciting! Soon we were out on the streets on our way to this “Hove, Actually”.
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The time on the train was very short and in 3 minutes later we were there! There was a HUGE building next to the station that said “Dubarry Perfumerie” and this is where we were going. I was suddenly thinking that there would be lots of smells and potions in this building, maybe even top secrets like Charlie and his chocolate factory! But it did not seem that this building was still a perfumerie, so I was a bit sad. But la Fille Ska was telling me a story about the factory so I stopped being sad to listen. She tells me that once upon a time (because all stories start in this way) Fille Ska’s grandmaman, who was named Ivy, was a young lady like her and she had worked at the perfumerie when they still made soaps and après-rasage. Then she met a man who drove the trains in Bright Town and she fell in love with him. Soon, as is the way with humans, they were married and had baby humans! One of them was la Fille Ska’s maman, and when she was older, she too worked in the factory, but now they made boxes (Then she grew up, studied Art and ran away with a handsome man she met on a train in Germanyland and he became La Fille Ska’s papa, but this is another story). So now, she says, she might become the third generation of women in her family to work there! Before I could ask her what is “generation” and why she was going to make boxes, she had disappeared inside the building and I was left with Le Sam. It was raining now, so we hid inside the factory to wait.
Long, long time later La Fille Ska came back, laughing at what had happened and saying that she should not have been sent there, because she is not a “native” or something. This I did not understand, but I am sure she will explain this. But now my report gets more exciting, because my hosts tell me that we are going on an adventure back to the Bright Town because they have something special to show me…
Back in the Bright Town, we walked through the streets to a big park with many people in it. And then I saw why I had been brought to this place – oh my Godness, a PALACE! A Palace fit for a Gritian King!!
It is very beautiful...
This is called The Pavillion and is a famous building here in Bright Town. Well, I Brittonito, Gritian Ambassador to Bright Town, by these words claim this Pavillion for the Summer Palace of King Negrito!
It was very hard climbing the building to put the flag on it!
It is a good palace, is it not? It was built by an English Prince and is very beautiful. Fille Ska says it looks like it is made of icing sugar, but surely this is wrong, or it would melt in the rain? It looks like a Palace for a Prince, from the Arabian Nights, with all its spiky towers and domes
I am looking for Aladdin, maybe he has flown away on his carpet?
As this Pavillion (Now officially the Pavillion de Gritos…I must write to the Council men and tell them this, so they can tell all the tourists on their leaflets…) is so very big, I have decided that all the Gritos, Gritas and Baby Grits with their humans and friends are welcome here. Look at this picture, I am so tiny in it!
The first one who finds me wins a prize!
It is even too big for maybe Grangrito by himself!
The Sun had decided to hide his face away for the day so it was mostly cold and I was glad of my scarf. I am hoping that the summer, it is not finished yet, because I am wanting to go down to the beach for a piquenique soon and put my toes in the big big sea. I will not do this unless there is sun, or it will be very cold! My Fille Ska says that maybe we can do this at the weekend when perhaps we shall have some important visitors (so we can have extra rosé wine and cakes!). Please, all be crossing your fingers and toes and legs that it will be sunny at the weekend so that Brittonito can have his piquenique! But the best news is this: La Fille Ska got a telephone calle and maybe a fairy made her wish come true, because she will be the third generation of her family to work at the Dubarry Perfumerie! In fact, it is not boxes she will be making, but she will be playing computer games!! Even better, she will get paid money to do this! She will be playing them, en francais, and making sure the words are making sense, and the test she did showed them that even though she is not francaise, her French is as good as a francaise – now I know what the “native” thing means! Hurrah! So today I learned a new story about my Fille Ska, and found a Palace.
A good day for Brittonito, a little Grito in a Big Bright Town.
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Brittonito - A Journey to the Bright Town
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Fellow Gritian Ambassadors to farway lands, friendly readers, and dearest King of Gritos – I, Brittonito, faithful member of the Army of the 12 Gritos, send you greetings from the land of the British! Let me explain to you my journey to my new home and of the people I have met:
I was chosen to go to the Headquarters of the famous Teddy Liberation Front to be welcomed by kind teds and the Queen of Yayness, Mademoiselle La Fille Ska and her Sam. I was very excited to go there, and a little scared too because the ffice:smarttags" />Britain they live in is quite far from Gritoland. After a long talk with the King, who told me that I must be a good ambassador for him and Grangrito who made growly noises and said I must be a good Grito, I hid in my special travelling case. I was sent by train to a big town with many many boats, and one of them took me to the British coast. On this big boat I climbed out of my case and walked on the top of the boat, they call this the “deck”. There I looked for Leonardo and Kate but I guess they were not on this boat at this time. I was met by a nice man, who said he was a “Royal Male” and he took me to play blackjack and poker with other nice men. I think maybe Grangrito would be angry and growl at me for this (because they let me drink beer with them) but I am learning new things and trying to understand a new culture so it is probably allowed. And this man told me that he was sent by my King, so I was not afraid.
Once the big boat got to England I climbed back into my case and the “Royal Male” took me in his bag to the place where I would meet la Fille Ska. She lives in a place called “Bright Town” But no! When we got to the Headquarters we banged and banged on the door but no-one came! I was a sad Grito then. I thought she did not want me and that maybe I had come to the wrong house. The Royal Male told me that he would leave her a message telling her I was waiting for her and then he took me back to stay at a big building. There we talked about the town I had come to, where there are many happy people – and I am to live next to the big sea!!! This is very exciting for me, and if I look very very very hard I think I could see Gritoland across it. This made me happy when he put me back into my case to sleep.
The next morning the nice Royal Male came to get me and he tells me there is a pretty lady and a tall man waiting for me. Yayness! (I practiced for when I would meet La Fille Ska so she knows I am a friend) It was her!! And her Sam!! She jumped up and down (Negrito tells me that she does this when she is happy so I was pleased!) and gave me a big kiss. They took me back to their Headquarters where La Fille Ska said the teds were waiting in the window to meet me.
The Teddy Liberation Front wait at their Headquarters - FOR ME!!
We went in and there was lots of shouting of joy and jumping and cheering! I met the nice Albert who is the ted in charge of the TLF and William (who met my King!) and all the others. We talked of the special secret missions that the TLF are doing and I was made an official member of their group, I am very proud. I swear to the King that I will be a good ambassador AND a good Teddy Liberation Front Grito! I was also given some nice presents: a little hat made by The Sam like the ones boating men wear and a very cool scarf in black and white wool.
Presents are good things...
The Sam says I must not put my hat near water so I will not wear it when it rains. The scarf was made by la Fille Ska and as it is black and white maybe that makes me a Ska Grito? At least I can be incognito now because my scarf in true Gritian colours is very obvious. I shall wear it when I go out in disguise.
Grangrito forgive me but there was much celebration on my first night, with a drink called “Gin” mixed with “Tonic” (it is bitter with many bubbles and together almost as good as Cognac!)
Let the celebrations begin!!
After this, some of The Sam and La Fille Ska’s friendly people came to see us, because they had heard a famous person had arrived in Bright Town – me! It was wonderful, many drinks, and loud headbanging musics and then dancing in a discotheque!! So exciting!!! We arrived at a good hour at a bar called the Hobgoblin. La Fille Ska says this is a good pub with good beers, and cool peoples. They all had massive spikey hairs and painted arms and earrings in their noses and lips!
Brittonito and the Clockwork Orange Fille Ska - what is she looking at?
This was a little strange for me to see but that is the variety of life which is good! After this our party went to a club called the “BG”, we were let in VIP – no charge for Ambassadors and their friends! – and we drank *ahem* a lot of beers.
This is expensive? Is this reassuringly expensive? Let me try it!
Hmm, what is this one?
Mmm, these are tasty, I think!
We danced to music by Madonna and Nirvana and Sean Paul and even Madness! It was in fact madness in the club, too many beers and too much dancing made a very sleepy Grito! I ended up falling down and my new friends decided to take me home to sleep.
Oh no I am drunk! And maybe so is he!
This morning my head is bigger than it should be, I think it is bursting from my ears! My kind hosts let me sleep very late and then gave me lots of water and aspirin for my pain. I am in shame of what Grangrito will say when he is reading this! But this was a special night for me and I will soon discover why this place is named Bright Town, I think!
So I am very happy to be here. La Fille Ska says to me we will do lots of exciting things in this place, see pretty people, liberate brave teds, eat good foods and drink good wines (and gins and tonics!) so I cannot wait for it to all happen!
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24hrs...
Oh goodness me.
Albert of Teddy Liberation Front here....
We at TLF Headquarters (new location: Brighton) today had an urgent message from the Royal Mail...it seems that a very special Brother is on his way to us! He is being kept safely overnight in a secret location in Brighton, being briefed on the various local customs here, and tomorrow morning, we will go and welcome into our cuddly arms
Needless to say, the excitment here in Brighton is tangible
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