Gardeners Rest #4

[jacob marley]

..what is all the fuss about said bobleponge this is a open house we do not need curtains....

[ginger ninger]

....."Derrr, what about the stage curtains for the play" said a rather stressed out Jeanied, "Will someone please stop that pony from eating the Christmas tree, Thank You, and has someone got any paracetamol...I need to lay down".

The curtains were washed and hung out to dry in the unusually warm breeze that had picked up out side, the door of The Gardeners Rest had been left open for some well needed fresh air, (1 pony, 1 goose, 1,572 chickens and a little Red barrow of poo do make a bit of a smell children) " Fresh air, how nice and some sunshine as well, Eeee it must be that Global Warming thingy everyone keeps talking about" said Snadger, "what do you think............

[Nicos]

" What's all this about things shrinking?" asked Wayne as he came in from he cold ( interupting Snadge)....

[Glutton4...]

...Dunno what you've still got the blimmin door open for" He continued, "It's just started snowing for heaven's sake!"

With that, he stamped his feet and the snow that had accumulated on them fell to the floor. The sound of the stamping feet upset several of the chickens, not least Pingu, who had been asleep peacefully on the top of the Christmas tree. She fell off, squawking in shock, and collided with a small group of sleeping chooks that had gathered under the lower branches.

Their row, in turn upset the small pony that was still eating branches off the tree despite everyone's best efforts at stopping the stubborn creature.

Through the noise, a sharp 'rat-a-tat-tat' could be heard at the front door...

[HayleyB]

"someone say rat" yelled Snadger "where's me gun".....

[ginger ninger]

.......Roland Rat hadn't been out in public for quite a few years now, not since the incident with Kevin the Gerbil and Philip Schofield, He'd heard there was a warm welcome to be had at the Gardeners Rest, so he'd convinced his friends The Hairy Bikers to give him a lift, but to his surprise he was greeted by a shot gun stuffed in his.........

[JanieB]

....hands. "What am I supposed to do with this?"

[Jeanied]

'I dunno' said Jeanied - eying Roland Rat with some suspicion ' but I suggest you stop waving it at me and put it away somewhere safe'.
The silence in the Gardeners Rest was eerie. Jeanie whirled round and discovered that she and Roland were the only creatures there - apart from a small gang of chooks trying to look invisible in the corner. The place was deserted. Not a single grape to be seen. The fire was out, there were cinders all over the floor, and a huge pile of ironing waiting to be done in the corner. Jeanie's first instinct was to grab the broom and do a bit of tidying - 'Nah', she said to herself ' at my age the Cinderella act is just plain daft!' so instead she chucked the scripts she had written on the fire, lit a match, and soon had a good blaze going. She looked at the pile of ironing trying to work out if it would burn well. 'Nah' she said again, 'bad idea'. So instead the fire was banked up with the remaining logs from Bob's steres.
'So where is everybody? I bet they are all stuck in the snow. Cissies - If I can make it from darn sarf to oop north, then anyone can make it round the corner to here!!!'

[Nicos]

Suddenly , in the distance , Jeanied could hear muffled laughter.
Peeking out of the window she was suddenly aware that there was a massive snowball fight going on by the side of the frozen village pond.
There were children skidding and skating, toboggans being tugs up the slope scalves and bobble hats a flying- and a crowd of snowmen in various stages of dress.

"Oh yey!!!" she called- I'll take out some mulled wine .
Jacket spuds were placed next to the now blazing fire, and a pile of sausages put on a gentle heat, and gathering up large jugs of steaming mulled wine Jeanied carefully plodded through the snow to join everyone....

[Nicos]

..it looked like there was an Xmas tree competition going on too- Bubblewrap - kindly assisted by a large group of peeps were tucking into bottles of beer ; lollipops were being handed out to the children; pencils were being sharpened;potatoes being stacked;jeans being ripped off ( don't look children!...where?..there!...where ?..don't look behind you!);kilts a-blowing in the breeze ...and what was that last one??...it was difficult to make out....
either way- the festive feeling had finally arrived at the Gardeners Rest.
( Jeanied shook her head and laughed..." Looks like no Panto again this year- oh well!" )....

[Pumpkin Becki]

'Hey everybody! Lets gather round all the Christmas Trees and sing carols' she cried.

[Nicos]

Snadger, RedThorn, Piglet, Heywayne and Jacob pulled out their combs and started to play the opening chords to Frosty the Snowman ( accompanied by Bob paying his spoons)....

[FionaH]

"Oh I love Carols" squeeled Fi as she fell through the door covered in snow, "only trouble is I can't sing, can anyone give me kareoke lessons?"

[Nicos]

Indeed - the newly made Igloo's door was a bit fragile- and bumping against it caused the whole thing to collapse upon Fi

"EEEEEEEEEEE" cried Fi

..."a perfect high 'E' " laughed Beckie as the pitch caused huge icicles to start falling from the tree...."run!!" she called....

[ginger ninger]

....Pingu and the ladies were in heaven, they had there new woolly coats on courtesy of Flum, Auntie mo & RedThorn.
Bigmally, Ollie, Nicos & Ginger were sword fighting with the icicles that had just fallen down, narrowly missing little fergie,
"More mulled wine anyone" shouted Jeanie over the karaoke, Frosty the snowman was being belted out by Fi and Nick The Griff.
Just then there was a knock at the door, outside was a man from the Brewery, He had 12 cases of The local brew for Bubblewrap to sample, "Mmmmmm, 12 bottles a case x 16.....192...wa hay, party time" thought a rather excited Bubblewrap, thanking the brewery man he dragged the cases of beer inside, rubbing his hands together he proceeded to start sampling..." do you need any help there Bubblewrap" said...........