Meanwhile on the other side of town Danny and Shireen were frantically trying to catch their cat Critter who had shot up the pear tree in their back garden after seeing the cat box on the kitchen floor that she had only one week earlier taken a trip to the vet’s in to have a really big injection.
Critter was having none of it, each time Shireen held out a cat biscuit Critter would climb higher up the tree; this was beginning to annoy Danny who had better things to be getting on with than playing silly buggers in the garden.
Atten meanwhile, Danny and Shireens small son, was having a whale of a time in the bathroom upstairs looking through and sorting out all of the boxes that had suddenly appeared. As he opened each one he found all sorts of things inside and started to pull them out and spread them around on the floor.
It was amazing how the toothpaste tube could make lines on the floor and then it was even more amazing that you could squidge the lines with your hands and make hand prints on the door, Atten was so happy that he even found out that the blue gel in the tall tin made patterns too.
It was moving day, Danny and Shireen had packed all their things and were almost ready to go to the new house, the big lorry had already taken most of the furniture and across town the moving men were busy unpacking their big truck under the ever curious nose of Mrs Farteh’bahtey.
Danny was getting excited in the garden and getting very annoyed with the cat, just then the back gate opened and Flo came into the garden “Hello Pet” she said to Shireen “I was just on my way down to the post office love and thought I would pop in to see if there was anything you wanted from the shops” she added “a big stick would be good” Shireen replied as she held out the cat biscuit still trying to coax Critter from her perch.
All of a sudden a very big dog came running through the open gate and started to bark loudly at the cat up in the tree, Flo screamed with fright as the dog pushed past her leg and then all hell broke loose, the big dog was barking, Danny was shouting, Flo was Screaming the Cat was screeching and hissing high up in the pear tree and Shireen was holding a cat biscuit up the tree and calling out “here Puss Puss Puss!”.
In the middle of all the confusion James, who is Shireens youngest brother mooched in through the gate and started laughing at all the commotion and carry on, “Kick-start here boy” he shouted and the dog quickly ceased behaving like a crazed wild beast and moved away from the tree towards James with it’s head down and whining. He grabbed the dog by the collar and led it back through the open gate and quickly evicted it back to the council flats on the other side of the car park and the Hippy Junkies who owned it.
Flo quickly said “I’m off” and disappeared up the side passage towards the road whilst looking back over her shoulder just in case the devil dog returned.
Danny meanwhile had given up altogether on the cat and suggested they should leave it there but come back every day and feed it, Shireen couldn’t contain herself any longer, and she threw the cat biscuits up the tree and shouted “Sod it, I’ve had had enough” and walked off into the now almost empty house.
Danny and James just looked at each other and at the same time in perfect harmony called out “oooh! Shireens got a monk on” and burst out laughing. Shireen couldn’t stop herself and broke out into laughter too.
“Why is it that when we need it, we never have the video camera running?” Shireen called out. And “why did you let that bloody silly dog into the garden James?” Shireen asked, “That’s it blame me for it” James replied “It wasn’t me it was Flo, she left the gate open” he added.
Atten, meanwhile who was still exploring Mount Cardboard and the lost treasures of Avon and Sunsilk in the bathroom upstairs, had just managed all by himself to create a wonderful new substance previously unknown to modern science, and he gave it the grand name of Aaakh!.
It was a sort of bluish greenie color, smelt of Coconut and Kiwi with a subtle hint of Gillette cool shaving gel and a gentle dusting of Johnson’s baby bottom talcum powder.
Feeling rather pleased with this new discovery, he felt compelled to tell his friends Piglet, Teddy and Mickey the Monkey all about it, so he quickly grabbed them all from the toy box in his bedroom and dragged them into his new bathroom laboratory.
Piglet and Teddy sat on the toilet seat and watched helplessly as Mickey the Monkey became Doctor Atten-Steins new creation, Poor Mickey was now foaming at the mouth courtesy of the rocket shaped tin of hair mousse, and was now about to have the new Atten look applied to his head, tummy, arms and leg’s.
Mickey the Monkey was now the Aaakh monster, and had a beautiful new aroma of God knows what, available only by mail order from Doctor Atten-Steins laboratories, Atten’s house Ramsey Cambridgeshire. Please enclose two large bags of Jelly babies and five pounds if you have it. Orders may be delayed if Mummy and Daddy find out.
Atten was getting bored with his chemistry experiments and decided that now would probably be a very good time to have a little taste, so wasting no time he popped a finger into his mouth and quickly remembered the name of his new invention, ”Aaakh” he called out and decided that it probably didn’t taste as yummy as it smelled. And quickly put both hands up to his eyes as the tears started to roll. And no the new Aaakh was no good for seeing in the dark either, but it could produce a very high pitched scream from a naughty little boy playing around in the bathroom.
Shireen, Danny and James all ran very fast up the stairs to see what all the screaming was about, very quickly the shower snake was spitting everywhere and bubbles were coming out of Attens eye’s mouth and ears, the screams were now starting to die down.
Piglet and Teddy said nothing, they sat very still on the toilet seat and didn’t move an inch, but then stuffed toys don’t usually talk or move very much at the best of times.
When the emergency was over all that was left behind was the soggy remains of Mount cardboard, lots of cuddles from Mummy and Daddy and a very wet Atten pointing to a strange smelling creature on the floor and calling out “Monkey Soap Monkey Soap!”