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(Message started by: catherine on Nov 9th, 2003, 8:23pm)
Title: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 9th, 2003, 8:23pm
“Harrumph!  Harum!  They want us!  They don’t want us!  Harrumph!  Harum!  What’s a Plot Bunny to do?”  Mr Plot Bunny muttered to himself, as he paced back and forth in the kitchen.
“What’s a Plot Bunny to do about what, dear?”  Mrs Plot Bunny looked up from the corner where she had been knitting placidly.
“The CBBers!”  Mr Plot Bunny informed her.  “All these comments about Plot Bunnies and how they don’t like them are just not on!  They’re all over the wretched board and it’s shameful!”
“Aye, that it is!”  Grandad Plot Bunny agreed.  “The youth of today; they just don’t know they’re born!”
“Oh we do, Grandad!  We wouldn’t be able to be speaking now if we didn’t know we were born!”  Master Plot Bunny piped up from where he had disgustedly shoved aside a Chalet School Book.
“Now there’s no need for any of your cheek, young laddy me boy!”  Grandad waved his pipe at the boy.  “Why can’t you be more like your sister, eh?”  He waved at Miss Plot Bunny who was avidly reading a Chalet School book.  “She’ll have no problem when she’s called upon next, but you!”
“Girls stuff!”  Master Plot Bunny grunted.  “Utter tosh!”
“Oh but it’s not!”  His sister cried.  “See, this one has a doggy in it!  You like doggies!”
“And they go on trains and boats.  There are fighting and deaths in them!”  Mr Plot Bunny added cleverly.
“Where?  Where?  Let me at them!”  Master Plot Bunny cried, flinging himself on his sister.
“Harrumph!  Harum!”  Mr Plot Bunny returned to his pacing as his children rolled over and over fighting each other.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 9th, 2003, 8:42pm
*giggle, giggle*
More about the bunnies please Catherine!!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Lesley on Nov 9th, 2003, 8:53pm
Like it! My plot bunny went out and got himself a girlfriend - now I've got so many of the damn things I'm exporting them to Russia! ;)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by LulieCat on Nov 9th, 2003, 8:56pm
Would these be the Yibblesville Plot Bunnies?

I understand that Yibblesville City Council have banned new potatoes and mint sauce within 10 miles of the city walls because of the tragedy that befell Grandma Plot Bunny. So sad  :(
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 9th, 2003, 10:04pm
*giggles* Catherine, you have a wonderful imagination! I hope we get more from the family. Will they go off to work and try to inspire us?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 9th, 2003, 10:09pm
I'll see what I can do for you all - so long as you don't mind appearing in it!  I haven't actually written more than that first bit but I'll be with lots of little people tomorrow so I hope they'll inspire me!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 9th, 2003, 10:28pm
*sighs and wonders if there's a drabble I haven't appeared in yet* Go for it.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 9th, 2003, 11:14pm
Ooh... *feels like she should be sitting "on the carpet in the quiet corner"*  ;D liking the story of the plot bunnies very much...  ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 9th, 2003, 11:36pm
This one should be illustrated Catherine!! :)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 12:26pm

on 11/09/03 at 22:28:27, KB wrote:
*sighs and wonders if there's a drabble I haven't appeared in yet* Go for it.

You haven't appeared in mine, KB, except where you've yibbled!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Jennie on Nov 10th, 2003, 4:49pm
Catherine, are we all allowed to join in with this, or is it just for you?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 10th, 2003, 8:37pm

on 11/10/03 at 12:26:55, PatW wrote:
You haven't appeared in mine, KB, except where you've yibbled!


Consider me grateful for mercies, however small!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 10:00pm

on 11/10/03 at 12:26:55, PatW wrote:
You haven't appeared in mine, KB, except where you've yibbled!



Wonder where Pat meant to insert the word "yet".
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 11th, 2003, 12:33am
*wondering if complete escape is possible*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Emma_N on Nov 11th, 2003, 12:36am
*complete escape is never possible*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Kathryn on Nov 11th, 2003, 12:46am

on 11/11/03 at 00:33:13, KB wrote:
*wondering if complete escape is possible*

Even if you did get away you'd never be able to hide from line of plot bunnies, sequel spiders, sanity cows and chastity cats following after. And of course at the end of this long line would be the CBB hot on your heels.....Now that's a scary thought :o
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 11th, 2003, 12:53am
*sigh* No, I suppose not, but Kathryn, do you want me to have nightmares as a result of your suggestions?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Kathryn on Nov 11th, 2003, 1:06am

on 11/11/03 at 00:53:23, KB wrote:
*sigh* No, I suppose not, but Kathryn, do you want me to have nightmares as a result of your suggestions?

Methinks you already have nightmares about the board so any more suggestions can't be blamed for the increase in nightmares ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 11th, 2003, 3:34am
*wonders where Kathryn gets her ideas*

*remembers it's from my mouth*

*hides and wibbles*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Kathryn on Nov 11th, 2003, 3:57am
Be afraid, be very afraid. I will soon have a bit more time on my hands to think up some other stuff too......
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 11th, 2003, 5:31am
*builds on fear in preparation*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 11th, 2003, 9:19pm
Two evenings later, the scene was much the same.  Mr Plot Bunny had resumed his pacing, Mrs Plot Bunny had resumed her knitting and their offspring were fighting once more whilst Grandad smoked his pipe.
Mr Plot Bunny let out a sudden yell of exasperation, startling his entire family.
"Good heavens, dear!  Whatever is the matter now?"  Mrs Plot Bunny demanded, feeling more than a little exasperated, herself.  There she was trying to enjoy peace and quiet and a rest from inspiring humans with ideas and instead of finding something to occupy himself, her husband seemed to be doing his best to ruin it for her!  "Still," she thought, "he's a man and men really don't have any understanding of a woman's need for peace!  He really can't help it; men never were particularly intelligent; whatever they might think!"
"What's the matter?"  Mr Plot Bunny repeated.  "I'll tell you what's the matter!  For once, it looked like someone was going to take up our cause and I started to feel quite pleased but she goes away for a couple of evenings and what happens?  That KB girl, the one that calls herself Head Girl, starts to take over the thread with her yibbling!  And that Kathryn, Emma_N and PatW are no better - encouraging her like that!  Still I suppose one should be grateful that Vikki stayed out of it - for once!"
"That's why lots of stories take so long to write,"  Miss Plot Bunny piped up.  "They're always yibbling and by the time they're finished, they're too tired to write proper stories!"
"And then they get all fed up with us because they say we keep on at them!  It's not our fault if they won't write the ideas down so they can come out of our heads!"  Master Plot Bunny added, aggrievedly.
"And then, when they do write, half the time they're not even proper stories!"  The young plot bunnies cousin added from the doorway, where he had just appeared.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 11th, 2003, 9:22pm
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee don't take offence, people!!

And Jennie, it's not just for me, if you want to join in you can!  Only please can we keep it fairly serious - it's not serious in the usual way but I don't want it going way off like some others I could mention!!  No deaths!  
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 11th, 2003, 9:28pm
Catherine, after the things other people have put us through in other drabbles, you haven't done anything that could offend us! ;) ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 11th, 2003, 9:29pm
Sorry this looks like being three posts in a row but the story just came to me and then I put the comment in afterwards.

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"Yes, you're right there."  Grandad Plot Bunny ruminated.  "Wasn't there something about a llama with purple spots or some such thing, written by Lisa_T?  And time travel as well?"
"And magic!"  Master Plot Bunny broke in eagerly - he was enjoying this particular drabble, although he knew it wasn't quite what was expected.  The fact of the matter was that he had spent many a bored afternoon listening to his mother reading Gone with the Wind to his grandmother who had become very short sighted just before she died and unable to read and not being all that interested in the Chalet School books, he had just pitched on a few names and gone haywire with it!
"Yes; well the sooner you get that ridiculous story out of your system the better!"  Grandad eyed him severely.  "George!"  He turned to his son.  "I propose that we call a meeting of all plot bunnies and air our grievances together!  Perhaps then we may be able to find a solution to all of this and a way of releasing all those bunnies that KB person seems to have locked up in her kitchen!"
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 11th, 2003, 9:38pm
Are they going to start the PBLF?
(plot bunny liberation front!) ;) ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 11th, 2003, 9:55pm
The meeting was organised for a week later - after all, the plot bunnies came from more than one country and none of them could drop everything just like that!  In the meantime, the Plot Bunny Family began to think of the main points that needed to be discussed, apart from the release of the Plot Bunnies locked up in Australia.  They had decided to name this operation the Plot Bunny Liberation Front - a name proposed by Vikki and one they thought suited the operation very well indeed!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 11th, 2003, 10:00pm
*happy to have contributed!!* ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 11th, 2003, 10:23pm
*giggles*

mmm, I wonder what the plot bunnies will get up to...

*hopes the movement is a peaceful one!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 11th, 2003, 10:45pm
*snickering* More, please Catherine, though I don;t know where you find the time!

For the record, it was Vikki to came up with the purple spotted llama and the powder blue chihuahua. I came up with the bush all by my little self, though! ;)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Rachel on Nov 11th, 2003, 11:31pm

Quote:
Catherine: That KB girl, the one that calls herself Head Girl, starts to take over the thread with her yibbling!  And that Kathryn, Emma_N and PatW are no better


I knew it was them all along!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Emma_N on Nov 12th, 2003, 12:19am
What have I done wrong ?  :'( :'(
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by crashbb on Nov 12th, 2003, 12:45am

on 11/11/03 at 21:55:08, catherine wrote:
The meeting was organised for a week later - after all, the plot bunnies came from more than one country and none of them could drop everything just like that!  In the meantime, the Plot Bunny Family began to think of the main points that needed to be discussed, apart from the release of the Plot Bunnies locked up in Australia.  They had decided to name this operation the Plot Bunny Liberation Front - a name proposed by Vikki and one they thought suited the operation very well indeed!


Are they going to take over like those frogs that had no natural predators?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 12th, 2003, 3:28am
So when is Rachel going to get the punishment she deserves?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Rachel on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:10am

on 11/12/03 at 03:28:09, KB wrote:
So when is Rachel going to get the punishment she deserves?


Hey! I don't deserve any punishments ever!

I'm lovable, 75% cute and very creative!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 12th, 2003, 5:24pm
It won't be tonight, I'm pretty sure of that!  Have a science test on electricity tomorrow - ugh!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 12th, 2003, 7:35pm
You have a science test? On electricity? How come?

*now convinced that the DfES has gone completely crackers*
*having visions of teachers now being tested on their ability to use lights, OHPS etc safely just in case they don't know how and some nitwit parent decides to sue..*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 12th, 2003, 8:55pm
The test is to test my knowledge of circuits, insulators, resistors, conductors etc. and to be quite honest, I haven't got a clue!  I have looked at my notes over and over and I cannot grasp circuits and switches at all!!  Why we need to have our knowledge tested, I do not know - I rather thought the whole point is to know whether or not I am able to teach electricity at KS1!

If this course and my placements don't give me more enthusiam than I currently have (which is almost nil) then I will be seriously considering giving up.  The fact of the matter is that I don't want to have to give up CS stuff and just generally having a life for teaching.  Having said that, I can't think of what else I want to do!  
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:09pm
I know. You have all my sympathy. That was the crunch for me in some ways. I love teaching- when it goes well, the feeling is unbeatable. But are those few good lessons a week worth the abuse, the low grade disruption, lack of co-operation and the sheer number of hours you put in to prepare a lesson, then mark the results, and then do all the stupid paperwork the DfES thinks necessary? Or your ITT people think necessary? I found I had no time to think, to explore ideas, to let my mind wonder, if you like, and those are all very important things to me. Therefore, I chose not to go into a full time teaching job. In the future, I'd be interested in part time or job share so that I can have a life, but there's an attitude in the teaching profession that if you're not working 24/7 you aren't dedicated! So Catherine, stick it out til Christmas. You've not had much contact with the kids yet, have you? And KS1 can be delightful. But if you decide to jack it or want a rant- email or pm me. I do understand.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:23pm
Thank you for understanding!

I plan to stick it out for as long as I can and definitely until Xmas.  I've had almost no contact with the kids so far - only 1 day but I was so totally bored by it that I came home very depressed.  It was a mixed Reception/year one class and they basically spent most of the day in play, leaving me wandering around thinking, what the hell am I supposed to do now?  It didn't help that I got up at 6am, left the house at 6.30 to be at college for 7.15 (it's a forty minute walk), then had an hour's coach drive to the school!  I was knackered when I got there and I didn't get home again until 6.30 pm!  I just know that there is no way I will be able to do any kind of effective planning in the evening and I'm not going to have a good practice if I'm knackered all day!  My 2nd placement is in a Y1 class and the school is literally five minutes away from my door which is good!  I start there this Fri and depending on how my days in each school (one day per week per school) go before Xmas, depends on whether I stay or jack it.  The problem, if I jack it though, is that I'm sure my parents won't understand.  However, that's for the future.  At the moment, I'm still trying to work out what in heavens name electricity is all about!  The test is multiple choice, so hopefully I'll be able to blag it!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:31pm
Make pretty patterns with the answers!! ;D

Reception/ Yr 1 *is* all play. I worked as a nursery assistant a couple of years ago in a primary school, and that's what it was like. Very little real 'teaching' at all, and you also have to be 'Mummy' and cuddle them, patch them up, dose them (with sweets), scold them, and try to sort out their (extremely strange) arguments.

On the plus side, they are amazingly responsive and will be fascinated by the smallest, most ordinary things- telling them about a magnet and demonstrating will keep several kids occupied for quite some time. Also, you will have to plan schemes of work and all the rest of it, but at least you won't have piles of marking to do- the marking is pretty much 'on the job.' I really enjoyed working at the nursery and have to say that I've sometimes wondered whether I made a mistake doing sec instead of primary/ early years.

Good luck with the test!
*If the worst comes to the worst, shut your eyes and jab at the paper with a pen!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:34pm
Er, thanks.

*Catherine not convinced that method will give her the right answers!*


I understand the insulators etc. but I know that if a switch is open, the circuit won't work (I think) but the rest of it is over my head!  Oh well, never mind!  Everyone has to fail sometime, I suppose!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:49pm
Sad, but true :-[. I failed the ICT test, which really knocked me for six. Of all things, I did not expect to fail that! So good luck if you have to do QTS tests.

*will be very very happy if someone announces that they are no longer compulsory if you have equivalent or better qualifications for ICT, Literacy or Numeracy*

*doesn't understand why 5 year olds need to understand all this circuit stuff!*
*never did like physics! :-/*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:54pm
Five year olds don't - or nothing more that if you attach a battery and a bulb or motor to each other via crocodile clips, it will light/work.  They need to know all this stuff at KS2 and 3 though and for some reason, that means I also have to know it!  AAARRRGGHHH!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:55pm
Good luck on your test Catherine! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:02pm
Thank you!  (Although if keeping your fingers crossed is going to mean you're not going to be able to type, I'll just say it's a lovely thing to say and very much appreciated BUT...........................)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:05pm
Good luck, Catherine (although you've probably already done it by now).
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 12th, 2003, 11:16pm
*offers Catherine a hug*

hope it all goes/went well  :-*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Susan on Nov 13th, 2003, 2:25am
More hugs and good wishes, Catherine.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Emma_N on Nov 13th, 2003, 8:13pm
I hope that the test went well Catherine!  :)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 13th, 2003, 8:51pm
So that explains it!!  I have been puzzled all day but now I know!!

Thanks people - you just helped me get 22 out of 24 in a test on something I know absolutely nothing about!!  It must have been all your wishes of good luck!

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"Ahem!  Ahem!  Quiet there!"  Mr Plot Bunny tried to organise the meeting, wishing he had the clear, carrying tones of Miss Annersley; although privately he had always that part a little far fetched - after all what use would a woman be at silencing a crowd of people all chattering hard?
"Quiet please, everybody!"  Mrs Plot Bunny barely had to raise her voice and the room fell silent almost at once, making Mr Plot Bunny very glad no one had been able to read his thoughts - or so he thought.  His wife grinned privately to herself, aware that he had yet to find out that it was her grandmother who had been responsible for EBD's descriptions of Miss Annersley and that the mantle had now fallen upon her.
"Er, thank you."  Mr Plot Bunny pulled himself together.  "Thank you all for coming and I apologise for the short notice.  The fact of the matter is that we feel we are being unfairly treated by a few members of the CBB and it cannot go on!"
"Hear, hear!"  Murmurs rose all around.
"The time has come to do something about it and that is why we are all here!  We propose to make a list of the main offenders first and then see what we can do about it."
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by LauraT on Nov 13th, 2003, 8:58pm
Dear oh dear....!

This is such a rachel drabble! I was quite shocked that twas catherine!  ???  :o  ???
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 13th, 2003, 9:05pm
*squealing with indignation*  


This is NOT a Rachel Drabble - it is going to be a fun, nice, clean drabble with no devils, monsters, animals and whatever else it is that appears in Rachel's drabbles.  Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee don't tar me with the same brush as Rachel!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 13th, 2003, 9:40pm
OK partly through me, partly through others, this drabble is getting rather confusing to read so have decided to repost from the start, with some extra bits added on the end so it's easier reading for you all - or those of you that are reading it, anyway!

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“Harrumph!  Harum!  They want us!  They don’t want us!  Harrumph!  Harum!  What’s a Plot Bunny to do?”  Mr Plot Bunny muttered to himself, as he paced back and forth in the kitchen.
“What’s a Plot Bunny to do about what, dear?”  Mrs Plot Bunny looked up from the corner where she had been knitting placidly.
“The CBBers!”  Mr Plot Bunny informed her.  “All these comments about Plot Bunnies and how they don’t like them are just not on!  They’re all over the wretched board and it’s shameful!”
“Aye, that it is!”  Grandad Plot Bunny agreed.  “The youth of today; they just don’t know they’re born!”
“Oh we do, Grandad!  We wouldn’t be able to be speaking now if we didn’t know we were born!”  Master Plot Bunny piped up from where he had disgustedly shoved aside a Chalet School Book.
“Now there’s no need for any of your cheek, young laddy me boy!”  Grandad waved his pipe at the boy.  “Why can’t you be more like your sister, eh?”  He waved at Miss Plot Bunny who was avidly reading a Chalet School book.  “She’ll have no problem when she’s called upon next, but you!”
“Girls stuff!”  Master Plot Bunny grunted.  “Utter tosh!”
“Oh but it’s not!”  His sister cried.  “See, this one has a doggy in it!  You like doggies!”
“And they go on trains and boats.  There are fighting and deaths in them!”  Mr Plot Bunny added cleverly.
“Where?  Where?  Let me at them!”  Master Plot Bunny cried, flinging himself on his sister.
“Harrumph!  Harum!”  Mr Plot Bunny returned to his pacing as his children rolled over and over fighting each other.
Two evenings later, the scene was much the same.  Mr Plot Bunny had resumed his pacing, Mrs Plot Bunny had resumed her knitting and their offspring were fighting once more whilst Grandad smoked his pipe.
Mr Plot Bunny let out a sudden yell of exasperation, startling his entire family.
"Good heavens, dear!  Whatever is the matter now?  Mrs Plot Bunny demanded, feeling more than a little exasperated, herself.  There she was trying to enjoy peace and quiet and a rest from inspiring humans with ideas and instead of finding something to occupy himself, her husband seemed to be doing his best to ruin it for her!  "Still," she thought, "he's a man and men really don't have any understanding of a woman's need for peace!  He really can't help it; men never were particularly intelligent; whatever they might think!"
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 13th, 2003, 9:41pm
"What's the matter?"  Mr Plot Bunny repeated.  “I'll tell you what's the matter!  For once, it looked like someone was going to take up our cause and I started to feel quite pleased but she goes away for a couple of evenings and what happens? That KB girl, the one that calls herself Head Girl, starts to take over the thread with her yibbling!  And that Kathryn, Emma_N and PatW are no better - encouraging her like that!  Still I suppose one should be grateful that Vikki stayed out of it - for once!"
"That's why lots of stories take so long to write," Miss Plot Bunny piped up. "They're always yibbling and by the time they're finished, they're too tired to write proper stories!"
"And then they get all fed up with us because they say we keep on at them!  It's not our fault if they won't write the ideas down so they can come out of our heads!"  Master Plot Bunny added, aggrievedly.
"And then, when they do write, half the time they're not even proper stories!"  The young plot bunnies cousin added from the doorway, where he had just appeared.
"Yes, you're right there."  Grandad Plot Bunny ruminated.  "Wasn't there something about a llama with purple spots or some such thing, written by Lisa_T?  And time travel as well?"
And magic!"  Master Plot Bunny broke in eagerly - he was enjoying this particular drabble, although he knew it wasn't quite what was expected.  The fact of the matter was that he had spent many a bored afternoon listening to his mother reading Gone with the Wind to his grandmother who had become very short sighted just before she died and unable to read and not being all that interested in the Chalet School books, he had just pitched on a few names and gone haywire with it!”
"Yes; well the sooner you get that ridiculous story out of your system the better!"  Grandad eyed him severely.  "George!" He turned to his son.  "I propose that we call a meeting of all plot bunnies and air our grievances together!  Perhaps then we may be able to find a solution to all of this and a way of releasing all those bunnies that KB person seems to have locked up in her kitchen!"
The meeting was organised for a week later - after all, the plot bunnies came from more than one country and none of them could drop everything just like that!  In the meantime, the Plot Bunny Family began to think of the main points that needed to be discussed, apart from the release of the Plot Bunnies locked up in Australia.  They had decided to name this operation the Plot Bunny Liberation Front - a name proposed by Vikki and one they thought suited the operation very well indeed!”
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 13th, 2003, 9:42pm
“Ahem!  Ahem!”  Quiet there!"  Mr Plot Bunny tried to organise the meeting, wishing he had the clear, carrying tones of Miss Annersley; although privately he had always that part a little far fetched - after all what use would a woman be at silencing a crowd of people all chattering hard?
"Quiet please, everybody!"  Mrs Plot Bunny barely had to raise her voice and the room fell silent almost at once, making Mr Plot Bunny very glad no one had been able to read his thoughts - or so he thought.  His wife grinned privately to herself, aware that he had yet to find out that it was her grandmother who had been responsible for EBD's descriptions of Miss Annersley and that the mantle had now fallen upon her.
"Er, thank you."  Mr Plot Bunny pulled himself together. "Thank you all for coming and I apologise for the short notice.  The fact of the matter is that we feel we are being unfairly treated by a few members of the CBB and it cannot go on!" "Hear, hear!"  Murmurs rose all around.
"The time has come to do something about it and that is why we are all here!  We propose to make a list of the main offenders first and then see what we can do about it."  He paused and as the plot bunnies fell silent, to consider this, sniffles and sobs could be heard coming from one of the smaller plot bunnies.  He was promptly passed forward to the front and Mr Plot Bunny kindly asked the little girl what was wrong.
“P-please, I-I’m s-so t-tired a-and I-I can’t think of anymore ideas.”  She sobbed.
“Which drabble or story are you working on?”  Mrs Plot Bunny asked gently.
“Th-the New F-family O-one.  Th-they all w-want more b-but I c-can’t give th-them m-more.  V-Vikki k-keeps b-blaming m-me a-and I c-can-t h-help it.  I-I’m o-only l-little a-and I-I d-don’t have a v-very b-big b-brain o-or a M-Mummy or D-Daddy t-to h-help.”
“Who looks after you then?”  Mrs Plot Bunny demanded.
“M-my b-brother a-and s-sister.”  The said bunnies pushed their way forward and on hearing that they really were orphans, the Plot Bunny Family promptly declared their intention of adopting them and Miss Plot Bunny suggested she should take over the New Family drabble since the last one she had worked on had been “A Chalet Girl in Trouble” which had been very successful.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 13th, 2003, 10:51pm
*Vikki tucks her plot bunny up in bed with a hot water bottle, a teddy, and a big mug of hot carrot soup*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Rachel on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:02pm

on 11/13/03 at 21:05:50, catherine wrote:
*squealing with indignation*  


This is NOT a Rachel Drabble - it is going to be a fun, nice, clean drabble with no devils, monsters, animals and whatever else it is that appears in Rachel's drabbles.  Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee don't tar me with the same brush as Rachel!




And what, EXACTLY, is wrong with a Rachel Drabble??



At least my brand name is becoming recognisable, which is good news for when I am elected President, Prime Minister and Empress of the Outer Galaxies!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:36pm
I think Catherine was hoping to avoid her drabble descending into insanity, as happens with all yours, Rachel! As it is now, it's just a very cute story! *knows there's not much my PBs can blame me for*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:29am
I think I'm in the clear so far as well, and I think my plot bunny is happy about working with Rachels on his next effort.
I'm a little worried about the implements he keeps bringing home though.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:33am
*really worried that Carolyn is letting her PB fraternise with Rachel's*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Jennie on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:50am
This whole plot bunny meeting fills me with dread, I only had to feed mine with a few cream cakes every day. What if he starts wanting to work union hours, and have regular time off, not to mention holidays and weekends. The mind boggles.

Sign up here for a mission to disrupt the plot bunny meeting!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 3:49pm
*offers Jennie some essay bunnies to keep her plot bunny in line*

thing is, essay bunnies quite often make you write what THEY want, which isn't quite as much fun

*almost mentioned essay bunnies in supervision this morning, which would probably not have been the best plan*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Jennie on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:16pm
Er, Xanthe, my plot bunny chains me to the keyboard and forces me to write to his dictation. Perhaps a few essay bunnies would just reinforce his dictatorial behaviour, so I don't think I'll risk it, thank you.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:26pm
Well, essay bunnies usually suppress plot bunnies... well, mine do at least...

*just realised her new t-shirt can say "Xanthe the Terrible" or "Slave to the Essay Bunnies" if she so wishes!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Jennie on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:43pm
Why not start a whole range, you could sell them, and pay your own way through uni! I did suggest it before, but you seem to prefer a degre to oodles of money. Well, who wouldn't, but perhaps you could try combining the two.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:52pm
*giggles*

As well as my groovy velcro t-shirt, I bought one saying "what if the hokey-cokey really IS what it's all about?"...
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Jennie on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:56pm
Eeuw, Xanthe, really! Best get on with making your own range, they must be better than that.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:58pm
??? wonders what Jennie objects to in her new t-shirt  ???
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 8:57pm
I think it's great, Xanthe!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:03pm
*giggles*

well, with the approbation of OOAOHG, what more do I need!?!

*planning to wear the velcro one tomorrow, but undecided as to what to write*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:07pm
Depends on your mood. If you fancy getting funny looks, try the yibbling owl. If you fancy being annoying, mysterious, or superior (or even all three) do something coded with 'CBB'. Or you could simply put 'A True Chalet Girl' on it!!!!!!!!!! ;) ;D

OR- "I'm a true Chalet girl- not!"  depending on which fits..
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:14pm
*thinking hard*

I think I'll probably go for the "yibbling owl" slogan... I quite enjoy messing with people's heads, and that should help...

*remembers she is meant to be going to the Ranger progressive dinner*

*decides she'll definitely have something to talk about!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:31pm
*suggests that so will everyone else* ;)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:36pm
*giggles*

what an introduction that will be for the poor loves!

*sniggers*

I might as well go in under my true [i.e. and viz mad] colours though!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:48pm
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Some people will never learn, will they?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:50pm
*wonders what catherine could possibly mean by that*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:54pm
*wonders where Xanthe got this velcro T-shirt?*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:56pm
From a t-shirt shop in town, the name of which currently eludes me... I've wanted one for AGES though, and carpe-d the Diem today, spurred on by the yibbling owl conversations!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Emma_N on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:40pm
*Slightly confused by all this...can someone please explain what a velcro T-shirt is (apart from the obvious)!!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:43pm
I'm sure they'd be happy to, Emma.  They won't mind at all since THEY NEVER LEARN!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:46pm
I bought a t-shirt today that has a large (non-scratchy!) velcro panel on the front of it.  It came with velcro letters (and possibly some punctuation!) that I can stick to it!

*suspects there are hours of fun to be had here*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:53pm
*suspects that this could be a dangerous tool in the hands of Xanthe!!!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Rachel on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:07pm
My brother and I have matching t-shirts which we had printed with the slogan:

"No, I'm the evil twin."




And of course, the perennial favourite :

"I poke badgers with sp oons"



Just thought I'd share since we're talking t-shirts   ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Emma_N on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:10pm
WOW, I understand now Xanthe, thanks for the explanation, I want one now!!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:11pm
*wonders where the 'poking badgers with sp oons' came from?*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Rachel on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:14pm

on 11/14/03 at 23:11:06, Vikki wrote:
*wonders where the 'poking badgers with sp oons' came from?*



There's not a lot to do in suburban Hampshire . . .
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:18pm
*begins to understand why Rachel is the way she is.......* ;) ;) :D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:06am
*wonders when a badgering badger will appear in Rachel's managerie*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:08am
*reminds KB that Rachel has mentioned her bizarre badger several times!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by xanthe on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:09am

on 11/14/03 at 23:07:01, Rachel wrote:
"I poke badgers with sp oons"


*wonders if Rachel is one of the causes of the increase in violence towards humans from badges that has been in the "news" this year*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:11am
That's a distinct possibility!! 8oo
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:33am

on 11/15/03 at 00:08:07, Vikki wrote:
*reminds KB that Rachel has mentioned her bizarre badger several times!*


*admits to having somehow overlooked the bizarre badger*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:40am
*is not surprised, considering how many animals Rachel seems to have.....*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:41am
*glad that Vikki is willing to accept that excuse*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 15th, 2003, 9:40am
*wonders if she should point out that all this yibbling is making their plot bunnies very angry*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 9:43am
And here I was thinking they enjoyed it! ::)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Rachel on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:06pm

on 11/15/03 at 00:33:39, KB wrote:
*admits to having somehow overlooked the bizarre badger*



Now how on earth did you manage to overlook a twelve foot badger? Especially one who has just decided, in an attempt to be trendy, to dye his white fur purple and red?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Jennie on Nov 15th, 2003, 4:22pm
It's not easy to explain the idea of good taste to a twelve foot badger.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 15th, 2003, 7:44pm
*mind still boggling at the mental image of the bizarre badger*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 8:32pm

on 11/15/03 at 12:06:23, Rachel wrote:
Now how on earth did you manage to overlook a twelve foot badger? Especially one who has just decided, in an attempt to be trendy, to dye his white fur purple and red?


Because we've never been properly introduced, Rachel, so I wasn't sure if that was your bizarre badger or someone else's.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 15th, 2003, 8:42pm
Very nice answer, KB!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 8:43pm
Thank you, Vikki! ;D
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:03pm
As the small plot bunnies were led away to be tucked up in their own, warm, comfortable room, which they were assured would belong to them from now on, Mr Plot Bunny called the meeting to order once more.  He and several more of his friends were barely able to control the anger they were now feeling for the CBBers had well and truly sabotaged their thread with their silly yibbling about velcro t-shirts and twelve foot badgers - this last having scared some of the very small plot bunnies.
"Let's go on strike!"  Someone called out and there came a roar of approval.
"No!"  Grandfather Plot Bunny roared.  "That's playing right into their hands!  If we go on strike, they'll have nothing to do but yibble and we don't want to encourage that!  No!  I suggest that we limit our hours of operation - to the middle of the night!"
"Ooh yes!"  The younger plot bunnies jumped up and down with excitement at the thought of staying up all night.  "We'll wait until they've just gone into a nice deep sleep and then we'll make them wake up because they've got lots of ideas and just have to sit at a computer and write them!"
"Yes!  And we could give them lots of ideas when they're at work and school so that they simply have to keep on writing and get into trouble for not doing the work they're supposed to!  If they lose their jobs, they'll have nothing to do and they'll be able to spend all day writing drabbles!"
"No.  We do not wish to inflict that kind of damage on them!"  Mrs Plot Bunny returned.  "I quite agree that we should give them a few wakeful nights and prove a distraction to them every so often at work, perhaps at the most inconvenient time, but we need to work towards encouraging these humans to nurture us and love us like they do themselves.  I'm quite sure that if Vikki, for example, loved us as much as she loved herself, she would become much more productive.   What we have to make them understand is that we and our needs are so much more important than theirs and that once they have tended to us, they will be free to go about their daily business.  I therefore suggest that we nibble at them until they feel compelled to obey us and then, once they have attended to us and left us free to move on to the next part of their stories, we leave them free to go about their daily duties.  The length of time we do this for, depends on how long it takes them to realise that all they have to do is to listen to our needs first and fulfil them before they do anything else."
"Wise words."  Murmurs of approval ran throughout the crowd of bunnies that were gathered in the field outside the plot bunnies home.  
"I propose that we split up into small groups and work out plans of action!"  Mr Plot Bunny tried to retake control.  "We can then choose a leader from each group to tell the rest of us their ideas and see what we manage to come up with....."
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:10pm

on 11/19/03 at 21:03:49, catherine wrote:
I'm quite sure that if Vikki, for example, loved us as much as she loved herself, she would become much more productive.


Ooh, boy, I can't wait to see Vikki's reaction to this! :o ::)

But don't the bunnies realise that their behaviour is just as selfish as the way they perceive ours?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:13pm
Quit quibbling, KB!  The bunnies have ears that stretch across land and sea, you know!

*hopes Vikki isn't going to offended and expects that if this drabble actually takes off, she'll only be the first in a long line of people!*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:18pm
Hey, what's wrong with using a little logic? It's the only weapon that can really beat a PB!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:27pm
KB!

(Continues in a very patient voice)


You are not supposed to want to beat the Plot Bunny but to work with him/her.  


That is what the meeting is all about and you are obviously not understanding what is being said there if you are still talking about beating them!  
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:32pm
*very patiently* Catherine, if I could have some time away from my PB, I would happily work with them during the time I set aside for my writing. However, considering I get attacked by them at all times of the day, I refuse to work with them until they work with me!!! >:(
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:37pm
I'm afraid you've angered the PBs so much by your yibbling, they simply refuse to compromise with you until you show you are prepared to work with them.

Goes off shaking her head in despair at HG!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:40pm
Hey, I would compromise with them if they were willing to compromise with me! ::)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:43pm
*might have believed KB if it wasn't for the innocent looking smiley at the end*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:50pm
Actually, I meant it as a rolling-the-eyes-in-frustration smiley, but the little smile comes along with it.
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 19th, 2003, 10:03pm
Oh, OK!  Well, you'll have to wait and see what happens at the PB meeting, won't you?

*wonders why Vikki hasn't said anything yet*

*hopes she's not too cross*
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 10:07pm
Hey!!! I love my little plot bunny, and I take really good care of her!!! >:( >:(
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by catherine on Nov 19th, 2003, 10:11pm
But do you give her the chance to exercise her brain?  And imaginative powers?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 10:22pm
Actually, she's produced five different versions of this, but she can't get one she's happy with!!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Nov 19th, 2003, 10:23pm
It sounds to me like Vikki keeps her bunny doped up and in bed all the time!!! (Ooh, boy, now I'm in trouble!)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Nov 19th, 2003, 10:31pm
KB!!!!!!!!
At least I don't keep my bunnies locked in the kitchen!! (and as for some of the things you've suggested doing to them......)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Today at 12:21am
*sigh* You were the one who suggested I keep them in the kitchen. I just let them visit there every now and then. And what other conclusion was I supposed to draw, when every time I ask about them, they're in bed?!

Oh, and I only dole out punishment when my PBs get uppity...
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Today at 12:35am
Actually, it was Catherine who suggested you kept your plot bunnies locked in the kitchen!! (see page two of this thread!!)
And the reason my bunnies are always in bed when you ask is that you always ask in the middle if the night over here!!
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Today at 12:42am
So how come my PBs have adjusted to my lifestyle but yours haven't adjusted to yours? And I beg your pardon, it was catherine who suggested it (although goodness only knows where she got the idea from).
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Today at 12:48am
My bunnies haven't been with me as long as yours have been with you, and they haven't acclimatised fully yet!! ;)
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by KB on Today at 12:51am
*skeptical snort* If they're properly adjusted, sensible bunnies, it should only take them a matter of hours to get used to an average person's lifestyle! Haven't you read your 'How to keep a plot-bunny happy' handbook?
Title: Re: The Plot Bunny Family
Post by Vikki on Today at 12:54am
I'm afraid that when my bunnies were delivered, the handbook got packed in with them, and they ate it!!


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