Gardeners Rest #16 ( 2021)

[Nicos]

…and handed the fairy a bowl of her favourite porridge made just the way she liked it - after all she’d travelled a long way…..

Funnily enough she was carrying a rather large rucksack which no-one at the GR had seen before….

[Plot70]

Never feed a pantomime horse baked beans

[Snoop Puss]

"That's a good point", said Rary, jumping up with a big grin. He wouldn't be the back half of the horse, not this year anyway. Nor the front half if he could help it. But whatever Nicos said, that bag looked familiar to him. Was it the one he had left behind by mistake last year?

[Plot70]

Brussels sprouts are also pantomime horse dividers

[rary]

Then it hit him, no, no not the effects of beans or brussel sprouts that bag is the one that the he had put the magic beans in, now how do I get it back without the others noticing I want it, thought rary, I know I can...

[Nicos]

…go and hunt out the Quasimodo Panto outfit and hide the bag inside the hump.
Either that or find the nativity camel outfit instead …..so Rary wandered off upstairs to the attic to go and have a good hunt around.
Thing is NTG was already up there hunting out fishnet stockings and an ugly sister outfit…..

[Jay22]

as it was his Christmas night out and he wanted to look super sophisticated. ‘What are you doing here’ he said to rary…’eh,…

[Snoop Puss]

Rary looked at the stockings and sparkly dress. "I might ask the same", Rary replied. "But I won't. Your secret is safe with me. By the way, while you've been rummaging around up here, have you spotted the Quasimodo outfit?" He decided not to ask about the camel outfit in case it turned out to be like the panto horse. Plot 70 had rather put him off sharing any kind of costume, plus he needed to be able to secret the bag about his person without anyone noticing.

What he hadn't thought, though...

[rary]

Was how he would get it out of the fairy's hands, evedently she hadn't discovered the beans or every one would know about them, after all she wouldn't be able to keep it a secret, have you ever known a fe.....

[Snoop Puss]

fi-fo-fum giant to be able to keep a secret either? Maybe it's one of those things about creatures of myth, legend and Fairyland that they are guileless. Unlike...

[mothhawk]

...Snoop, who was keeping very tight-lipped about the fact that she had swapped Rary's magic beans for plain runners, and had already planted the magic ones in....

[greenishfing]

....a clearing in the forest, apart from the one that had fell out of the bag and landed in......

[rary]

The soup that Nicos was making, just hope it's not a runner bean, or rary will be kicking himself for not fitting a payment lock on the toilet door

[greenishfing]

Nicos was oblivious to the fact that she had a magic bean in the soup but was wondering why the now bright green concoction was not so much boiling over as trying to climb out of the pan.....

[Snoop Puss]

'Help', gurgled the bean. Nicos was initially astounded. A talking bean... But she was no fool, she knew a magic bean when she heard one. Quick as a flash, she