Dude Man.

Lee comes to The Gate to Video Drama and art and the music group (his favourite artist is Gregory Isaacs) and he sings in the band when we do our song Sweet Talking which is a reggae tune. He's a happy chap who is kind to people and no one has a bad word to say about him cos he's such a nice guy. Lee always says "I'm not too sure" if you ask him a question even if he knows how to answer it because that's just what comes out because he's shy but he's getting less shy with us now and we think this is a good thing.



But that is when he's not a Superhero but sometimes he goes in a phonebox and says his magic word "I'MNOTTOOSURE" and then he turns into Dudeman and comes out of his shy-shell and can hang out easier with people he likes and nothings bothers him.

 

Art by Clare. Writings by Clare and Mandy.

Next up; Jason is...

Budgie Lady.

Mandy comes to The Gate to hang out with her mates and to do Video Drama* and art here but her favourite thing at The Gate is police training where we help the police understand what people with learning disabilities are like. She is very kind and friendly and likes to cheer her mates up if they are down. Mandy's favourite drink is coke and she also likes to smoke cigarettes because she says they calm her down. She has a boyfriend called Darren, a cat called Elvis and a budgie called Pepper - she loves them all a lot.



Mandy with her boyfriend Darren.

But that is when she's not a Superhero but when she sees an evil person from ATOS who is going to take away a persons benefits she turns into her pet budgie and drops poo bombs on them. Mandy does not like ATOS at all because they upset her all the time and make her worry.

Art by Clare. Writings by Clare, Mary and Darren.

Next up; Lee is...

*Mandy in an episode of Video Drama that was all her idea.

Fart Machine.

 Wayne is a really friendly guy who is always smiling, he likes hugs and talking about his holiday and he really likes sugar even though he isn't allowed it. Wayne is very good at painting and does big splash paintings on the wall, he is also very good at music and plays the congas, keyboards and he sings his song about his holidays. Another thing Wayne is good at is cleaning, he doesn't like dirt so if he sees something on the floor he has to clean it up even if he is supposed to be playing keyboards.

 

 

But that's when he's not a superhero, when he is a superhero he is called Fart Machine because he farts quite a bit. He doesn't really have any enemies to use his powers on because he is too nice to have enemies but he does use his farting if he needs to empty a room so he's a very useful guy to have around.

Art by Clare. Writings by Clare, Mary and Mandy.

Next up; Mandy is...

 

Smoke Man.

 

 

Peter Kemp is 69 and he is the narrator for Video Drama, writes reviews of records and does music here at The Gate. He is a happy guy with no teeth who is generous and everybody likes him and he always shares his chips at lunch time.

 

But that's Peter when not being a Superhero and when he is a Superhero he is called Smoke Man and he has special powers where he smokes load of fags and has Supercoughs where he coughs on the bad guys and they die. Peter's main enemy is David Cameron because David Cameron makes disabled people go to ATOS and fill out a load of forms so he can take their benefits off them.  

 

 

 

Art by Clare. Writings by Mandy & Mary.

 

 Next Week: Wayne is...