A Carrot Called Christopher and Other Odd Vegetables Grandpa In My Pocket

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

Grandpa!

No! Be careful!

Grandpa, stop!

Whoa!

'This is me, Jason Mason.

'And this is my grandpa with his dog Beowulf.

'We live here in Sunnysands.

'Here's my dad's bike shop,

'and this is our house.

'Oh, and here's my mum, doing one of her hobbies.

'Mum's always taking up new hobbies. One week it's karate,

'then it's salsa dancing...

'opera singing...'

SHE WARBLES

'And now her new hobby is...

'growing vegetables. And more to the point,

'she's growing oddly-shaped vegetables

'for the Sunnysands Odd Vegetable Festival.'

There's no room to play snap in here, Jason.

The vegetables are taking over!

Look at this one. Don't you just love him?

I'm going to call him Christopher.

BOTH: Christopher?!

'We couldn't believe Mum was naming vegetables.'

-Isn't he beautiful?

-I wouldn't exactly say that -

he's certainly odd.

The odder the better.

-SHUTTER WHIRRS

-There. I'm off to gardening club.

Look after my babies for me. I won't be long.

'So off went Mum,

'and Grandpa and I were left in charge of...'

Well, Jason, if we're going to play snap, we better go outside.

There might be more room there.

'But there wasn't more room in the garden.

'The vegetables had taken over here as well.

'Oh, yes, Mum had grown every sort of vegetable

'you could possibly imagine.'

Right.

I'll deal.

'We'd just started our game when we heard...'

Cooee!

It's only me.

'Great-Aunt Loretta - Grandpa's sister.'

Ooh, I say,

the vegetables are taking over. Ha-ha.

I've come to cook you some yummy supper.

What?

I'm going to invent a new recipe.

But Mum didn't say you were coming.

Well, Mum must have forgotten, mustn't she?

I'm going to invent an odd-vegetable stew with,

wait for it...pickled onions,

-curry and custard!

-But you can't use any of Mum's odd vegetables!

-We're looking after them.

-Don't be so silly. She can't need them all.

Oooh.

And this...will do...for starters.

Right.

-She has to be stopped!

-I know!

-There's only one way to do it.

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

'You know when Grandpa shrinks he can get up to all kinds of things.

'He can chuff about in our Sunnysands train...

'He can drive off in my car...'

TYRES SCREECH

'He can get into all sorts of very small places...

'And often he runs so fast, you've no idea where he's gone!

'And I had no idea today.

'But there was no time to look for him -

'I needed to check what Great-Aunt Loretta was up to,

'and she was up to no good.'

Oooh, I say!

-NO!

-What?

Not Christopher. He's Mum's favourite!

I'm not surprised. Look at his little legs!

-Mr Mentor will love him.

-Mr Mentor?

Yes. Mr Mentor the Inventor.

'Now, Mr Mentor the Inventor lives in the lighthouse in Sunnysands.

'He's always coming up with really crazy inventions.

'Like this - the grassy buggle jumper.

'Only the bugs liked it even more than he did.

'Then there's this - the automatic hair-o-static

'that gives you a new hairstyle every day.

'And this -

the huffer-puffer pillow fluffer.

'Everyone loves visiting him in the lighthouse and trying things.

'And he likes trying out other people's inventions too,

'which was why...'

I've invented Mr Mentor for supper and I'm going to invent...

-a new recipe.

-SHE CHUCKLES

Oh, no, she's not!

-Grandpa!

-We've got to make sure the vegetables really do take over.

-No!

'But Grandpa jumped down and ran into the kitchen.'

Grandpa! Where are you going?

I'm going to start with the pumpkin! Where's me knife?

'Grandpa shot up the leg of the table and hid behind the pumpkin.'

Grandpa gone for a little lie-down, has he? So lazy!

'Grandpa was determined to get the pumpkin out the way...

'but he wasn't planning this!'

-Aaaargh!

-JASON GASPS

Aaah! Aaah, me toe!

-Oooh, me toe.

-'Great-Aunt Loretta is always hurting her toe.

'We have a pack of peas in the freezer

'especially for these moments.'

SHE SIGHS IN RELIEF

-Oooh.

-Maybe the pumpkin doesn't want you to cook it.

Don't be so silly.

How does a pumpkin know whether it wants to be cooked or not?

I'm going to pick some beans, I am.

JASON SIGHS

'Grandpa followed her outside.'

-DOORBELL

-'The doorbell went.

'I ran to answer it.

'It was Mr Mentor the Inventor!'

Jason! Howdy doody-do? Am I too early?

I've been trying this fabidiculous new watch I invented. See?

'Mr Mentor doesn't only invent things - he invents words.'

Oh, it is fabidiculous.

I know. Shame it doesn't work. Oh, my goodness!

The vegetables are taking over!

My goodness! I've never seen such odd wiggly-looking beans before.

-Have you, Mr Mentor?

-Never. They are spectopular.

'I had no idea where Grandpa was or what he was planning.'

They'll be perfect in an odd-vegetable stew

with pickled onions, curry and custard, won't they?

Oh! 'At that moment,

'I spotted Grandpa. He was making his way towards the beans.

'As Great-Aunt Loretta leant forward to pick one,

-'this happened...'

-Argh!

'Grandpa wiggled the bean stalk!'

Good heavens, what's going on? It's wiggling!

-Wiggly beans, wiggly stalk. How wizzerwaddlesome!

-Ohh... Aargh!

-Maybe the beans don't want to be picked!

-Don't be so silly.

It's an excellent invention.

A stalk that won't let you pick beans until they're ready.

-Not just super - super-duper!

-Ridiculous.

'I needed to give Grandpa time to get out of the wiggly bean stalk.

'So I showed Mr Mentor Mum's other vegetables.'

Chillies over there.

'Out of the corner of my eye...

'I saw Grandpa jump,

'run, and make his way back into the kitchen.

'I needed to get back in there too, and fast.'

Oh, this is such fun. What's next? I can hardly wait!

Right. I'm going to start on me carrot... Where is it?!

-'I thought Christopher was missing, 'but suddenly...'

-Aaargh!

It's alive!

'I couldn't believe it! I'd have to make sure Grandpa wasn't seen.'

-Brillioso! An fantastible invention!

-It's a horrid invention!

It's a horrid, cavorting carrot!

-Maybe it just doesn't want to be cooked!

-Don't be so silly.

Whoever invented it, Jason?

Er...Grandpa.

Kind of.

LORETTA SHRIEKS

Wonderbuble! Absolumply wonderbuble!

LORETTA SHRIEKS

'I knew what was going to happen.'

-Careful, Great-Aunt Loretta!

-Aaaargh!

Ooh, help!

Save me, Mr Mentor! Wheel me away from the carrot! Quick!

Oh, wheel me away from the carrot!

'I really thought it was time Grandpa stopped.'

Grandpa, stop!

'He was having a great time.

'I could see another disaster coming. He was headed for the pond!'

-Watch out!

-CRASH!

Help!

Aaah, help.

Oh, on my way!

-'I quickly picked up Grandpa...'

-Whoops.

Did I get a bit carried away?

'..I put him in my pocket, then I grabbed Christopher.

'At that moment, Mum arrived home.'

I'm home! Oh, Jason, you've been looking after Christopher. How kind.

Help me up!

-Oh, dear. Problem?

-Problem.

-MR MENTOR:

-Oh, what are you doing? Oh!

Oh, am I glad to see you! Oh, the vegetables were taking over!

The wiggly beans wouldn't stop wiggling...

'I whipped Grandpa out my pocket and put him on the floor.

'He took off his shrinking cap and came back to normal size.'

That was close. At least we stopped Loretta cooking Mum's odd vegetables.

-Do you know what I call that?

-Teamwork?

-Teamwork.

BOTH LAUGH

'In the end, Mum cooked a really yummy supper.'

What a day for inventions, eh?

That wiggly bean bush! - Really?

- Spectopular. And the clockwork carrot!

- Clockwork carrot? - Truly fabidiculous.

-You are a great inventor, Grandpa.

-Inventor? Grandpa?

-He doesn't do anything except lie down!

-Oh, don't I?

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