This year's Bourton and Frankton church fete held on Saturday 25th August included, for the first time, a story stall called 'Once upon a time'. Visitors were invited to contribute a sentence to a story which evolved during the afternoon. Each writer could only see a few lines of the story at any time so we promised that they would be able to read the complete story on the website. So here it is. We have left the spelling as it was.

Once upon a time there were three villages; Dampcoat, Bottom on Dunny and Little Fartown.

In the year of our story the annual summer fete was being hosted by Little Fartown.  All the villagers expected it to be just a normal fete, but how wrong they were.

The fete had only been going for five minutes when everyone heard a blood-curdling scream. It was the girl who had been hit by a plane at 80 miles per hour and she had disintegrated into a pile of ash. They put it in a pot and sold it in the fait. A millionaire decided to buy the pot at the fete.  He hoped that he would be able to find out from her ashes who she was. Alas, he could not buy her, he had to successfully guess the weight.  He did not know whether to compare with a sack of potatoes or a fairy cake.  He thought about the potatoes but made a big mistake.

So he turned all the potatoes into chips!  The monkey stared in fascination as the spider crawled towards the sack and stopped in front of one of the chips.

Moving like lightening the monkey leapt on the spider and swallowed it whole.

Once inside the monkey’s tummy, the spider, shocked from the terrifying experience of swimming down the monkey’s oesophagus, set about planning his escape!!!! It was going to be an uphill struggle.

As he started crawling up the monkey’s throat the monkey choked and he was catapulted straight out of the monkey’s mouth and landed in a saucer of milk.

In the next two minutes Mrs Barn-owl came and took a drink of milk.  She spat it out all over her shoes which became green patent with white spots. Suddenly a ninja penguin abducted them all including the spider.  Several days later Margaret was found in one of the tents having slept for four days.

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