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rosesarered Fri 09-Sept-16 22:41:59

Anyone up for this game.....I will start off with the beginning of a made up story, and the next poster continues it. It must be at least one full sentence,but otherwise as long or short as you like, and the more fantastical and ridiculous the better. smile

It was a dark and stormy night, and the rain came down in torrents, the lighhouse keeper turned to his wife and said 'Florence , tell us a tale' and she said.........

morethan2 Sat 24-Sept-16 21:25:17

Opened a fish and chip shop in

NotTooOld Sat 24-Sept-16 21:25:40

or is IT their safety helmets.....

Christinefrance Sun 25-Sept-16 08:17:21

......New York which was a huge success, people came from all over the country. They were served fish,chips and scraps by ........

MaggieMay60 Sun 25-Sept-16 08:22:54

Ivana Trump wearing a hairnet, curlers and fish net stockings! She had trained in the art of......

Alima Sun 25-Sept-16 08:30:23

....battering by the well known Scottish fishmonger Alex Fergusson.......

Bellanonna Sun 25-Sept-16 08:36:03

and his assistant Alex Salmand. Together they

MaggieMay60 Sun 25-Sept-16 08:45:45

had perfected a new dish called "pie in the Sky" it was full of

Alima Sun 25-Sept-16 09:01:55

...pilchards, Mars bars and rusty bolts.....

Bellanonna Sun 25-Sept-16 09:07:45

And New Yorkers queued round the corner for this delicacy, until one day

Jane10 Sun 25-Sept-16 10:27:15

Tragedy struck and...

Alima Sun 25-Sept-16 11:31:05

..the pilchard vat blew up....

Bellanonna Sun 25-Sept-16 11:50:27

Taking Ivana and her fish (get it?) net stockings with it, and leaving a strong fishy aroma hanging over Manhattan for weeks; so bad was it that

Alima Sun 25-Sept-16 12:20:49

(Yes, good one Bella!).....all the cats in the area were wandering around with their noses in the air so not looking where they were going.......

NotTooOld Sun 25-Sept-16 14:17:35

...and a largish blonde moggy, whom we shall call Hillary, fell through a Maralyn Monroe grating and landed up.........

Jane10 Sun 25-Sept-16 14:20:16

On my knee which is always ready for nice cats to land on. The cat purred contentedly and I switched on my...

soop Sun 25-Sept-16 14:29:47

hearing aid...all the better to hear you with, I whispered into the cat's fluffy ear...

Christinefrance Sun 25-Sept-16 14:37:22

.....and as if by magic the cat turned into a handsome prince, he whispered to me - come live with me and be my ..........

Jane10 Sun 25-Sept-16 14:50:07

Sofa! I turned down the cats kind offer and opened the window to let him out. With one leap he was out and tuning fast and far until...

Jane10 Sun 25-Sept-16 14:50:39

running

NotTooOld Sun 25-Sept-16 17:12:22

.....he landed on the pavement (did I mention I live on the 16th floor?) and lost his first life. Luckily for the moggy........

Christinefrance Sun 25-Sept-16 18:15:49

........he landed on the lap of Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick who took him back to the clinic to be Supermouser. I left the sofa and went in search of ........

Bellanonna Sun 25-Sept-16 20:29:39

The aforementioned handsome prince who seemed to have disappeared, when suddenly I saw an orangey-looking figure with a yellow mop of hair, who was frantically

Cherrytree59 Sun 25-Sept-16 21:57:56

Trying to get back to the jungles of Borneo...

NotTooOld Sun 25-Sept-16 22:04:45

....I ordered him a minicab and when it arrived I noticed that the driver was..........

Cherrytree59 Mon 26-Sept-16 01:13:18

David Attenborough. ...