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02 July 2008

The Enchanted Bog - part 1

Once upon a time there was an exhausted Queen. She had two lovely but somewhat cheeky sometimes princess daughters. The King was often away in foreign lands doing kingly things like rearranging forests and other plants and motivating disheartened garden centre troops.

What the Queen wanted more than anything in the world (apart from a fortnight in Rarotonga at a resort with a kids club and teenage activities to keep the princesses out of her hair) was a new castle from which she could reign with peace and a bit of love too. She spent years and years, wishing and dreaming, doodling nothing but floorplans and colour schemes. Then finally the Wizard whose name was Bill DinginSpectre, waved his magic wand pen over the doodles and with a flourish of sparkles and a quick hot chocolate, there appeared two handsome knights who were jolly good with a power tool.

The Queen wept for joy and the little princesses yawned and asked what the big deal was. But up in the sky above the land of Tara, lived a wicked troll by the name of Cumul O'Nimbus. He didn't like the idea of the the Queen and her cheeky princesses having a happy life. He wasn't really a bad sort, just had a less than happy childhood which had left him with a big chip on his shoulder and a tendency to stormy outbursts.

Over the next few months the good knights whose names were Sir Dave the Castle Builder and Sir Robbie the Lovely Labourer, toiled through scorching sun (come to think of it the Queen couldn't remember very much of that) and pouring rain and into the nights. Block by block the castle rose out of the ground. The Queen was delighted with the progress and laid on a feast for Sir Dave the Castle Builder and Sir Robbie the Lovely Labourer and their beautiful families.
Cumul O'Nimbus was getting mighty tired of all this nicey nicey family sweetness and decided it was time to get involved (and not in a good way either).
He knew that Sir Dave and Sir Robbie, being good guys, would be impressed by pretty colours. So he threw together a magic spell and conjured up a beautiful rainbow. You have to remember that the best creative work comes from tortured souls.


He cast the rainbow across the land of Tara with it's end coming down just next to the under construction castle. Now everyone thinks that you find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And if we're honest the Queen's budget was a little tight, so Sir Dave and Sir Robbie were very impressed by the rainbow and thought that if they could find the pot of gold, they could share it with the Queen and build an even bigger castle.




So they raced over to the end of the rainbow and what do you think they found?


Well, I'll take guesses on this one....... let me give you a hint...... the pot of gold thing.... well it's a crock of ****.


Answers on a posting please.



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