The Gardeners Rest #12 (2017)

[Lumpy]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo my handbag shouted VC (reminiscent of an Oscar Wilde play) it will take me hours to pick everything up.

I'll help shouted Lumpy and started to pick up various and quite interesting bits and bobs off the floor.

The more she collected the slower she got as the contents of VC's handbag was beginning to get a little bit scary.

She put the wheelbarrow, clay pigeon, trouser press and sump gasket (and yes I do know what one is) in one pile and the dragons egg, golden fleece, trumpet and tractor tyre in another.

At this rate there was going to be several piles of....................

[veggiechicken]

............useful items to be reconstructed into something useful or.............

[Lumpy]

if Flumpy can stop trying to throttle the ostrich by clamping his trunk around its neck a valuable insight into the things chickens keep in their....................

[Snoop Puss]

crops.

But attempts to gather all VC's belongings were interrupted by the pompiers, who were showing signs of interest in Flumpy's trunk. It was a hose with a life of its own, they thought.

"I still want a drink", Rary shouted.

"My toes are still cold", Cadalot cried.

"All right", Nicos said soothingly. "Why don't we..."

[veggiechicken]

.......put the kettle on, rary can have a hot drink and we can fill a hottie to warm Cad's feet.
The rest of us can ................

[Aberdeenplotter]

Get back to basics and...............

[veggiechicken]

.....get down and dirty. What do you have in your seed box - I need to sow something. Any more Magic beans? Remember what happened last time we sowed one? It ...........

[Lumpy]

no no Flumpy let go of AP as .....................

[Snoop Puss]

Snoop gathered up the last of VC's belongings. Which was good because VC had a little camp stove, kettle tea bags and little milk pots and sugar sachets (acquired from assorted bars it looked like), plus decent collection of cups, enough for everyone. So that was the tea sorted. She'd get on with that, she decided, while everyone else discussed the magic beans because those were before her time and she knew nothing about them.

So she got the kettle boiling while everyone else discussed the magic beans strategy.

[veggiechicken]

Aaahh, the Magic beans, said Lottie Dolly, I remember the time we planted them alongside the GR Tree and they grew, and grew, until the tree was dwarfed by the beans and the Fairy had to be extricated from the tendrils.
Eek, eek she'd shrieked, stop looking up my skirt, rary, you norty boy , you'd better protect your baubles before they squashed by these bean stalks. The beans climbed ever higher, they crawled across the ceiling, wrapped themselves around the chandelier (that GL liked to swing from) and, eventually, found a crack in the plaster where..............

[Lumpy]

The seeds waited to be revived.

The Master, after having a cup of tea with several one dips (yes I like the comedy sketch) disguised as a new Grape, who strangely had not taken part this year, decided he had a cunning plan ( go Baldrick) to take over not just the GR but the Vine itself.

He would use the magic bean seed to........

[rary]

But rary was not happy with his hot drink, look jist pit a wee drap oh hot water in a pint jug and tap it up wi a wee whisky, now jist up tae the rim I dont want to spill owny o it. (He was evidently reverting to his native tongue as folks were having difficulty understanding him)

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Re-enter all the lost photos from the sites "Meltdown" so at least some of the threads did actually make sence!

But why waste such a luxury!

Surely if I scattered such bean on my now cleared n manured veg Beds! Who knows what will become?

Who knows! They may even grow into...............

[rary]

Something edible

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Like a "Steak n Kidney pudding"

Or even "Chicken curry n fried rice"

These were very special beans, n didn't need wasting! and if they were.............