Rubble Club 28/03/2008

28/03/2008 by Madge

Good day to you all, Rubble Clubbers. My parlour is almost full, but you can squeeze yourselves in somehow. There’s always room for invisible people like yourselves, luckily.

My little pet rock shelf inside the magic wand shop was well-visited over the Easter holidays, and as a result, many more pet rocks have found loving homes and the Rubble Club ranks will have therefore swollen somewhat. Let’s hope you newcomers are going to be keen, lively attenders of our weekly meetings, and let’s hope you are fonder of entering my fabulous competitions than the rest have been.

Apart from the beautiful, sun-tanned and happy humans who live around here, I have noticed that visitors from far and wide come to Blackpool to build sand-castles, and to watch the sun go down over the sea. Great big coaches arrive every day full of smiling humans with their buckets and spades. Now they are finding out it’s also the place to come to adopt pet rocks, so just watch, there’ll soon be coach parties arriving for more and more. I may have to take on an assistant if only I can find one with a touch of Dumpling magic like myself. Otherwise, how will I cope? I expect I will have to display a ‘SOLD OUT, PLEASE WAIT’ sign and make them queue round the block to wait for the next batch of rockies to hatch out. That may be a good thing. It will sort out the truly dedicated from the unsuitably impatient, won’t it?

Now, on to the business of the day. Seeds. Spring is the season for seed sowing, and I hope you are all busy sowing with a view to pet rock entertainment. They will need somewhere safe and pleasant to take the sun when the weather permits. Remember, they were outdoor creatures by birth, and although they are happy to be wherever you are, indoors or out, nothing would make them happier than to have their own little patch of earth where they can get back to nature now and again. They won’t run away, don’t worry. Give them a window box, a tub, a place in the border or rockery, or a plant-pot next to your deckchair. It will make them so happy, and that is all we want, isn’t it, Rubblers? It’s our job, after all. In case you want a tip on what seeds to sow, I will just whisper the word calendulas (pot marigolds). They are a magic herb for happiness, love and abundance. The magical effects of the calendula is said to be doubled by its being befriended by a pet rock. They get on like a pair of angels in your midst. I plant them every year. No wonder I am so happy and well-fed and well-loved. You can be too.

So, get sowing, Rubble Clubbers, till we meet again next Friday. Write to me with your queries and concerns, gossip and news reports. As always, I am your faithful friend and chairman, Madge Dumpling