Outside the window was a magnificent stag 🦌 with huge AnTlERs and a glowing red nose. Jimmy was rooted to the spot with an astonished stare. The stag turned towards him and Jimmy was convinced it winked at him before taking off at great speed up into the air. "I've just seen Rudolph Mummy", he blurted out. "Yes, dear", was Mummy's response before resuming reading her magazine. No one took Jimmy's account of the scene seriously; poor Jimmy.
Colonel CArruthers was puzzled by the noises he heard from the next-door office, so he went in to check. "What are you doing Mahendra?", he exclaimed as he observed his clerk staring at a small box and furiously pressing buttons on it. "I'm sorry, sir", said Mahendra, "I have an early form of Sonic the Hedgehog running on a Sega Game Gear that's fallen through a worm hole in time." The Colonel was furious. "That's not appropriate for you baboo Mahendra. As punishment, you need to work alongside the workers stuffing kapok into mattresses for the rest of the week. Mahendra was miffed and was very glad when the weekend arrived and he could go to his dance lessons, this time learning the steps to the mambo.
This is my 10-year-old Granddaughter's version:
"So, when are we going? " Timmy asked sitting down on the steps after waiting for Ben to come down." It's not been long Tim, cool it. I don't see why you're so excited anyways, it's a boring walk and I do not want this new fur coat to get dirty! " Peri said haughtily applying lipstick 💄. A few minutes later, Ben came down making lots of noise as he put on his coat and bag. They set off and soon started walking. After a good few hours of hiking, Ben plopped himself down beside a beech tree and took a long sip of water. "Eeew! Ben put your coat down for me to sit on and make sure no bugs crawl onto me!" Peri squealed daintily sitting down and brushing the mud of her shoes with a wet wipe. "Here let me help you Peri, oops! There's an ant!" Ben said gently flicking off an ant." Oh come on! You're all being soft and daft when we should be walking. Leave little miss fussypots and be firm on her. You know she loves flattery!" Timmy said, red with rage after the little pity scene with his siblings. "Oh don't decry Ben's kindness Tim. You are just rude and annoying with a quick temper. Poor Benjamin is just doing this out of the kindness of his heart", Peri said, red in the face and head up. "Pooh! More like because you told him to!" Timmy scoffed under his breath. Peri rolled her eyes and Ben looked sad and went on silently with his hands in his pockets as he usually did when he was upset. Probably because he just got told off by his little brother.
This is my version:
There was a tERrible noise as a huge branch fell off the beech tree, narrowly missing the main structure of the garden shed, but knocking off the guttering. Albert went out to fix it back in place, though it looked like a project doomed to failure. Glenda was very dismissive of Albert's efforts, but Kaz reprimanded her - "Don't decry his efforts. It's good that he is motivated."
This is my 10-year-old Granddaughter's version:
Come on, Dad wants us to go shopping for cereaL, milk, eggs and flouR. Oh, and sugar. He said to go to the new Chinese take-away to get prawn crackers too", said Tom, squinting at the list and adjusting his glasses. "Can I come too?", Mia asked, looking up from rubbing Lola's tummy. "Not you Mia, I want you and Lucy to watch me make flour." Mia and Lucy watched Mum grind each tiny grain of wheat while the boys started to get ready to go to the shops. "Listen to this", Dad said suddenly, looking up from his paper. "Two cars crash with a prang!" "Wow", said Max as he drank the rest of his juice. Dad folded his paper up and walked over to the stairs, deftly stepping over the fine cord stretched between the doorposts as a prank. "Oh Max, Tom, get the Carter's brand of cereal please", he said before vanishing into his bedroom.
This is my version:
As LauRie fumed in the chauffeured car, he learned that the delay was because of a crash ahead that had blocked all the motorway off. This brand launch was important and he didn't want to miss it. At least it wasn't a delay because of a prank played by a rival. At last he arrived and he started mingling. He'd just taken a mouthful of prawn and pickle when there was a tremendous prang as a careless visitor stumbled into an elaborate display. Laurie groaned - "He clearly drank too much earlier, and probably the grain variety at that".
Amery was enjoying his work designing a computer game. That is, until he made some changes and now every minute the code would spawn a gremlin-type character that would run amuck through the game messing up the scene, the scores and so on. He checked his code most carefully but the fault seemed to avoid detection. He went home late in a sulk but as he stepped in the door, a shelf was thrust into his hands by his wife that he'd been asked to affix to the wall two weeks ago. "Don't expect any dinner until this is in place", she snorted, and stormed off, leaving Amery dumbfounded.
It becAmE a national scandal when the aeRoplane landed. All the passengers wrote on their social media feeds about how the airline had completely messed up the catering and the stewardess had requested that the passengers share a meal between two people!
Warning, this yarn doesn't finish with everyone Living hAppily Ever after. The sable was minding its own business when a hungry eagle swept out of the sky and carried off the sable for its dinner.
