Jimmy & Riddlesworth's Christmas Pickle

Roger Chamberlain

Description

A Christmas short story for children and adults.Two elf brothers, Jimmy and Riddlesworth work for Santa Claus delivering presents every Christmas. Unlike the other elves they are banned from the workshop, as they have no natural ability to make toys - or skills to make anything else for that matter!Last December, when they arrived at the North Pole to start work, Santa and the other elves had disappeared along with all the completed Christmas presents. To save Christmas, Jimmy and Riddlesworth decided to make and deliver as many presents as they could. Were you one of those people lucky enough to receive one of their presents last year?You don't know? Well, this story will explain everything!

Sujets

• Fantasy (canción de Mariah Carey)
• Fantasy

Informations

• Publié par: The Tagman Press
• Date de parution: 23 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781906749064
• Langue: English

Extrait

Jimmy & Riddlesworth’s Christmas Pickle!
Roger Chamberlain

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Jimmy & Riddlesworth’s Christmas Pickle!
First published in Great Britain as an e-book in November 2012 by Tagman Worldwide Ltd in the Tagman E-Tales series.
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© 2012 Roger Chamberlain
The right of Roger Chamberlain to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988.
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ISBN E-BOOK 978-1-906749-06-4
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Edited by Maria Herring
Cover Design by Roger and Katrina Chamberlain

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Jimmy & Riddlesworth’s Christmas Pickle!
Were you one of those really lucky people last Christmas?
Do you remember receiving a present, which had an important part missing? Maybe it refused to work even after being thrown across the room or was it just missing one of those all-important battery thingies? If your answer to any of these questions is YES then someone who knows you very well must have told Santa that you had been very good last year. This story will explain everything!
Now, are you sitting comfortably? Believe me, you’ll need to be.
Jimmy and Riddlesworth are two elf brothers who share a cottage in Oak Wood. Just in case you should ever meet them, Jimmy is less than a metre tall and very thin. His long brown hair protrudes from underneath his hat making him look more like a miniature scarecrow than an elf. Riddlesworth is even shorter, bald and rather, well, plump. He looks more like a tall, bald gnome with a weight problem.
Their little cottage sometimes sits in the centre of the wood and at other times it doesn’t. It can be moved if they want to change the view. Occasionally they might move it for no sensible reason at all. Of course, if the cottage gets bored it can move, or rather jump, all by itself too.
You are probably thinking, “That’s very peculiar; a cottage can’t jump, surely!”
Let me explain. If you think about it; you can jump, a frog can jump and a flea can jump so why shouldn’t a cottage be able to jump? Just because you haven’t seen one jump doesn’t mean it can’t, does it?
If you think someone is going to walk into you, you can jump to one side. Unlike you, cottages don’t have legs so how are they going to get out of the way?
They jump of course!
No roads or tracks exist inside Oak Wood as the cottage is never stationary for long enough for one to find it. With no roads it may appear strange that there is always a little red van parked outside the cottage.
This fact is only partly true as during December it is never parked outside the cottage; the elves need it to get to work. Yes, you’ve guessed it, the van can jump too!
Fact no 1 - Many years ago, when Jimmy and Riddlesworth finished Elf School they became apprentice toy makers in Santa ’ s busy workshop. But, due to their inability to make toys or anything else correctly Santa moved them to the Packaging Department. Later still, he gave them a little red van so that they could help him to deliver Christmas Presents on Xmas Eve.
(Santa ’ s not as young as he used to be!)
As I look out of my window the first snowflakes of winter are appearing in the cold evening sky. In the middle of Oak Wood I can see a tiny thatched cottage with a little red van sitting beside it. The van’s rear doors are wide open.
Snow is beginning to settle on the roof of the cottage but, oddly, not one flake is landing on the van. It seems to be glowing in the fading evening light. Two little figures emerge from the door of the cottage and both are wearing thick winter clothing. In their arms they are carrying gifts which are carefully placed into the back of the van. The doors are closed and they climb into the front seats.
The snow has stopped falling and the sky clears allowing stars to twinkle in the night sky above the wood. The van slowly rises above the snow-covered treetops and, after pausing briefly, vanishes into the night sky.