The Rubble Club: Rubble Club 21/03/2008

21/03/2008 by Madge

Hello Rubble Clubbers, come on in, this is Madge Dumpling again, bright and early this week with some good news for you. the Growbies have fixed me up with a little shop to rent. Well, it’s more of a cupboard if I’m honest. They have been tunneling away,( because that’s what gnomes do) digging for roots and making underground homes for us all here in Blackpool as they go, and they have discovered something wonderful right above our heads. The wand-maker’s human apprentice, Granny Gray and her husband Granddad Gray, has opened a new shop above ground where humans have been coming to buy her clay wands all winter long.

That greedy Granny Gray had spread her work for sale all over the room without one thought for me and my hundreds of little homeless rockies. Did she think we wouldn’t find out? Well when the Undergrowby tunnelers dug their way up into the middle of the shop and saw what was happening they reported back to me immediately. I was up through that tunnel like quicksilver, I can tell you. I spotted a nice big cupboard perfect for my purposes.

I gave Granny Gray a good dressing-down about her greedy ways and shamed her into emptying the cupboard of her wares and handing me the keys to it. I have filled it up with a charming display of pet rocks and their accessories for all to see. My own little shop! Imagine! I have no time for shopkeeping myself of course. I have my own work to do, so Granny Gray is minding my stall for me. It’s the least she can do.

The tunnelers, who do follow-up checks for me, tell me the rockies are going to lovely luxurious homes. I myself listen through cracks in the shop floorboards to check if Granny and Granddad Gray are instructing potential new pet rock owners correctly in their new duties. The squeals of delight when new owners meet their little pets for the first time are music to my ears. I’m loving Blackpool and its delightful humans!

And now a treat for you, Rubble Clubbers, a picture of the winning sandcastle made by Headwin Boulder. You don’t deserve it, because none of you even bothered to enter the competition, but just in case you think it’s all a figment of my imagination, here it is. So there!