Nanny Piggins And The Accidental Blast-off - Plot & Excerpts
‘Please don’t jump!’ begged Derrick. ‘Ung-uhuh-boohoo-hoo,’ sobbed Boris. The children and Boris were standing in the middle of the backyard looking up at the roof, where Nanny Piggins stood on the ridgepole with her arms raised, sniffing the breeze, ready to leap. You see, Nanny Piggins had been watching a fascinating documentary. She normally disliked documentaries (she resented anything that tried to educate in slow, measured tones) and would have switched it off before it started but she was eating a particularly good cream bun at the time so her hands were too sticky to change the channel. Anyway, the documentary had been about the Pentecost Islanders in Vanuatu, who just happened to be the people who invented bungy jumping. Now on Pentecost Island, the local people jump off a purpose-built scaffold with nothing but vines tied to their ankles to stop them hitting the ground. Nanny Piggins did not have any vines to hand, so she had to make do.
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