Gardeners Rest #16 ( 2021)

[mothhawk]

...slammed the lid on the pan. No bean is going to ruin my soup she said, you can stay in there till...

[Snoop Puss]

Hubble, bubble, boil and trouble, the pan gurgled furiously.

'Ooer', said Nicos, realising she might have acted a bit rashly...

[mothhawk]

...but fearlessly grabbed the pan and tossed the contents through the kitchen door into the pub yard and over...

[Snoop Puss]

the fence into the compost heap. It was one of those magic heaps that never seemed to shrink even though nothing was ever added to it. So combine magic compost and a magic bean and you can just imagine what happened...

[Jay22]

a huge beanstalk grew before Nicos’ eyes. Oh my goodness…

[mothhawk]

...Rary will be so jealous of the size of that! I wonder what...

[Nicos]

…that rumbling sound could be?…

[Snoop Puss]

'The bean growing so fast it's approaching the speed of sound?', asked the fairy nervously.

'I know that noise', said Plot70. 'I've heard it before. I was pretty sure at the time it was Widow Twankie. Mind you, it could have been...'

[Nicos]

….that really strange……

[Snoop Puss]

not to say mysterious...

[Nicos]

…and quite frankly, rather a bit over the top…..

[greenishfing]

Ugly sister when her corsets creaked, groaned, rumbled and exploded due to......

[Nicos]

…an excess of…..

[Snoop Puss]

Wind.

Well, what do you expect if you eat magic beans on toast?

And in NtG strode as if wearing seven-league-boots at the end of his fish-stockinged legs...

[greenishfing]

......Quickly followed by a rather shifty looking hunchback of Notre Dame.