It was a dark and scary night ....

[chickadeedeedee]

The wind howled around the old greenhouse, rattling the panes of glass...Driving rain went beyond syncopation, to make a cacophony of pings against the roof and sides of the structure. Suddenly, ........

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chickadeedeedee said:

The wind howled around the old greenhouse, rattling the panes of glass...Driving rain went beyond syncopation, to make a cacophony of pings against the roof and sides of the structure. Suddenly, ........

........... all the lights went out, the dog started howling and the cat hid behind the sofa ...........

[mickthecactus]

........ and I wondered why I had put the sofa in the greenhouse in the first place........

[piggingardener]

A squelching sound could be heard above the sounds of the driving storm, lightning illuminated the scene accompanied by a resounding clap of thunder and I saw.....

[sweetleaf]

.......a dark and shapeless shadow moving against the suddenly illuminated sky........

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.......... was it the shadow of a man or a beast .............

[piggingardener]

Or, even worse - was it the giant sprout from next door rampaging through the lettuce patch!!

I watched in horror as.............

[sleepysunday]

At that moment a car's turned the corner and it's headlights illuminated the dark and shapeless object... it was Sooty.

"Sooty, what are you doing out at this time of night?"

Sooty whispered his reply in my ear (as he had an annoying habit of doing)

"What?", I cried. "Sue had pinched your boots, and the rain is making the foam in your paws squelch?"

As we made our way back to the house the street light began to flicker and the deep resonant sound of a cello filled the night air..

Suddenly...

[4pygmies]

...the giant sprout exploded! A terrifying howl rent the air and the cello shrieked.........

[sweetleaf]

the cowardly dog joined the cat behind the sofa, and the squelching sound could still be heard above the storms cacophony..a shudder ran down my back when............

[piggingardener]

Green slime sprayed the old greenhouse, the stalk shattered one of the cracked panes of glass, the wind howled through the broken pane, lightning exploded overhead, the thunder crashed and............

[sleepysunday]

"Bloody hell! What the fcuk was that?" exclaimed Sooty uncharacteristically.

"Watch your mouth young bear," I said "or you'll never be allowed back on CBBC".

Green gunge was everywhere. It was splattered all over the road, the walls, and running down the lampposts. It was as if the whole population of the planet had had one of those messy sneezes all at once and all in the same place.

I looked up at Sooty. He had a big green globule on his head and it was starting to run down the side of his face across his cheek. I wiped it away for him.

"Quick", I said "we have to get to the Town Hall to...

[4pygmies]

...the sprout slime hit my neck and slithered down my neck.....the howl stopped abruptly and a sepulchral voice demanded "O.M.G! What is that vile smell? I come in here for a bit of peace and quiet and b***y Sooty, half the animal kingdom and a bl*****g cellist have been creating ever since!!" There was a startled silence and then an odd muffled thud. In the deep gloom........





BUTTOCKS! SS is quicker than me on a keyboard....

[sweetleaf]

just at that moment, an eerie green glow began emanating from the greenhouse, and large melon like veg began to crack open.......

[sleepysunday]

BUTTOCKS! SS is quicker than me on a keyboard....

Maybe, but PG was quicker than me

[piggingardener]

A stick like hand appeared from the first of the cracked melons, then another, followed by a head of sticky up hair and wild orange eyes............

[sweetleaf]

the melons were eggs then...laid by the denizens of the pumpkin-head planet, the first of the figures began to lurch toward the house.........

[piggingardener]

.....dripping slime with every step. The slime trail was smoking green and purple fumes, and still they came, slowly, slimily and surely they came onwards towards the house, getting ever nearer and nearer, when..................

[sweetleaf]

(fanfare) in rode the cavalry, in the shape of .................










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[sleepysunday]

Lionel Postlethwaite - a small, weedy looking man who lives alone in a bedsit at the end of the avenue. He was dressed in a lime green satin shirt, trousers of a rich velvet burgandy, held up with shocking pink braces, and open toed pale brown sandals. Dress sense, along with many other affairs of life, were not Lionel's forte.

Hang on ladies I'll...

[4pygmies]

Lionel Postlethwaite!! said the sepulchral voice, " you used to be my pervy Geography teacher! You have ignored me at your peril. I am the king of the pumpkin-head planet now. And you said I was a failure!!"
"A Geography teaching was just my cover" said Loinel (freudian slip. Sorry!), "And perviness was my reward for putting up with all you pumpkin headed miscreants! Now you shall regret the day you ever walked Room 21A" and he reached into his velvet burgundy trousers and pulled out.......

(crescendo of cello music........)

[sweetleaf]

a giant pair of........Felcos!
The pumpkin Kings eyes dimmed, and his twiggy knees trembled, he took one step back, then another ............

[Plocket]

and then he sliped over on the trail of slime on the ground around him.

Lionel snorted back his laughter

But another figure was looming behind him, slowly and quietly approaching.....

[piggingardener]

Is it Captain Cabbage - no!!!

It's another giant sprout plant with arms, legs and a hideous...........

[Plocket]

Gnarly bit protruding.....

[piggingardener]

Gnarly bit protruding.....

LOL

Suddenly the gnarly bit proved to be a............

[sweetleaf]

Chainsaw....yes its Welshblue in his Halloween costume, come to save us poor lesser morsels from a fate worse than life..........

[sleepysunday]

mouldy bratwurst that Rosefriend had thrown away weeks earlier as it was months past it's use by date

"where did you get that?" cried...

[piggingardener]

Welshblue brandishing his chainsaw, I've been looking for a nice bit of sausage for my supper - give it 'ere! At that the giant sprout...........

[Plocket]

Started to undergo a transformation...........