Wednesday 26th February 2025
We first celebrated this day during lockdown by creating a fairy tale between us via whatsapp a line at a time! We hope you enjoy this year's attempt which took 9 hours, 112 messages, and 16 contributors!
Guess what! It's National Tell A Fairy Tale Day!
Once upon a time...
Uh oh
You were warned
Heehee
*mutes group* 😉
A unicorn walked into a pub…
And he said to the bar man…
A beer please. The bartender, quite surprised to see a unicorn in the bar says, “That will be £7.50; and by the way, we’ve never seen a unicorn in here.” The unicorn replies, “At £7.50 a beer, I can understand why.”
And so the unicorn...
Drank his beer and stepped out into the golden dawn where he saw...
35 women in green T-Shirts...
The shock caused him to do a massive rainbow poo...
"I wish someone had thought to give me a name," thought the unicorn, before he...
Bowed gracefully to the green ladies and stepped...
aside, bowing deeply and announcing: “I’m Gary…
And if you think that rainbow poo is impressive,
You should see what else I can do…"
...Gary proceeds to sing a beautiful aria and the 35 green ladies...
...Couldn't wait to join in with him. Gary said, "It's so exciting to be able to sing with other people". When I get excited I do a rainbow...
However, when the green ladies began to sing, he realised…
..that they were really rather good, and he got more excited and suggested...
That they try to add some really impressive choreo to their songs.
So it was decided that....
The 35 green ppl could form a cool circle from which Gary could appear. They practised this a few times and..
It was a joy to behold.
They knew their path to LABBS glory was suddenly a possibility...
Unfortunately Gary was incontinent with excitement… (We did warn you). Thank goodness they weren't wearing those new frocks thought Mrs Wardrobe, imagine…
But then Gary started singing 'ugly' loud and the ladies in green wondered if he’d self critiqued his voice recording sufficiently…
...He hadn't!😱 but he promised to go away and do his homework. So, the next day...
Gary suggested that they should do some busking in the nearby Tesco for practice...
...The Tesco staff were very obliging and even gave them a prime position at...
The back of the shop behind the freezers...
They say it has the best acoustics but the green ladies were sceptical so they…
...Started singing anyway, but slowly inched their way to the front of the freezers and eventually to the middle of the aisle where they started their amazing choreo, and Gary, on cue appeared from the circle of green ladies... unfortunately there was only one little old lady doing her shopping and...
She got such a fright that her false teeth fell out!
However, she thought, what the heck and....
Picked them up off the floor, popped them back in and joined in the singing. She was amazing but...
Gary felt upstaged by the little old lady and tossed her into the bakery aisle with his horn and then…
He started beatboxing in an attempt to upstage the old lady. The green ladies were not prepared for that but they…
Got their pelvic floor in position and went for it…
They found they were so unexpectedly proficient at beat boxing that they might leave Barbershop behind and join Gary as a new supergroup...
Boom chicka, boom chicka, boom...
Boots n cats n boots n cats 👢 🐈 👢 🐈
The little old lady got her false teeth in order and gnashed along with the beat
She wasn’t brilliant so Gary didn’t feel threatened
In fact when the ladies stroked him he felt GORGEOUS!
Dodgy…
Poopity poo went an excited Gary:
He thought the beat boxing was easy until...
...he realised he wasn't actually doing it in time with everyone else and so he stopped and instead...
...let Anne and Nat take over as the beatboxing champions they are whilst he...
Nipped to the sweetie aisle for 35 Wispagolds,...
and a walnut whip and a cream horn.
Suddenly there was magical gnashing of false teeth and a shower of stars. The little old lady was the fairy godmother!
She offered the usual three wishes...
Can we agree that there's no abbey belles business in here today please 🤣
Is that the first wish?😆
The first wish Gary made was to become a full time member of the ladies in green and get his own green t shirt...
And purple fleece…
..abracadabra.,... poof... Gary turned green and purple and a bit more feminine...
… because it’s 2025 and why not 😂
The old lady fairy godmother asked Gary what his second wish would be...
Glad Gary is taking his time over his second wish…
You can't go wasting your wishes 😆
Gary's second wish was that all the green ladies could have purple curly hair like his
Poof! Done!
Haha! Mine’s purple anyway!!
(Can 'The Green Ladies' be our new name?...)
OK - getting the hang of this now….his third wish was, please can we do a barbershop version of Downtown? Please….
Tadah!
Gary's wish was granted!
Words and Music by Tony Hatch - didn’t he do Crossroads? Nobody under the age of 50 will know what I’m on about…he’s my new official fairy godfather. Is that a thing?
I’d say 45… 😉
It is now!
Gary’s third wish was to be in Calpe with the green ladies and the little old lady beat boxing in an international contest where they scored 70.2%
Very specific that one!
Poof the wish was granted. Gary and the green ladies got their score of 70.2% and celebrated by....
🍰 🎂 🎂 🎂 🍰 🍰 🍰 🍰
After they'd all had their fill of celebration cake washed down with copious amounts of wine they decided to all go for a dip in the sea. Just as they were taking off their clothes (because obviously someone had convinced them that skinny dipping was a good idea), they turned around and noticed...
The barman!
He was furious that Gary had scarpered before paying for his beer, Bert the barman tried to pursue Gary but a huge mound of unicorn’s rainbow poop had prevented him from leaving the pub. He was baying for blood or at least the £7.50 owed…
The genius Green Ladies decided to settle Gary's bill by giving an impromptu concert. But...
Not only were they wearing no clothes, but also...
They had no pitch pipe!
Are we learning to sing this, it would be lovely x
No. Soz
"No. Soz", I don't have my pitch pipe but I think as an alternative we could use this very large...
Bra to cover us all up.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just catching up ladies so funny xxx
It was a sensation! Everyone loved Gary and the Green Ladies with the Enormous Bra (our new name, I'm thinking now)
Even though it was out of tune...!
"Nothing a bit of auto tuning can’t correct" thought Simon Cowell who happened to be holidaying in Calpe and was strolling down the beach at that very moment! Gary and the Green Ladies (featuring a very large bra) were promptly signed to SyCo records and…
Released a hit single "Heart of my Heart" sung really fast with beat boxing...
With "Steaming down the Riviera" on the B side
Feat. Dick C Buoy!
Broadway Rows😆
So now that the songs were chosen for the new album, they headed to the local recording studio where they met with...
A problem. Clothes were not optional
And Ed Sheeran, doing backing vocals on The ABC Team
Fortunately the ladies were prepared for all eventualities and, having their knitting needles to hand, decided to...
Knit 30 or so thongs, and…
Paid homage to The Carpenters song, Sing. So they sang…
"Thing, thing a thong
Make it thimple to latht your whole life long…"
But alas,
Green seaweed was collected to make slippery 'bras'. Which slid off while attempting choreo…
Never the less the green ladies remembered "The Climb" too and so persevered with the…
slidey clothing and the chilliness of the thongs until...
As if by magic the wardrobe fairy appeared and kitted them all out in beautiful perfectly fitting costumes complete with sparkly earrings and comfortable but stylish shoes...
"Halleljuah" they sang.
Gary pranced round excitedly in his new costume
Thank goodness for Wardrobe there. This fairy tale was slipping into the gutter...
Somewhere, over this rainbow, another Fairy Tale day dawns…
No, please!!!!! 😂😆🤣
The End!
And they all lived happily after.
THE END!
If you've enjoyed this year's story you can see the attempts in previous years:
2021's story...
2022's story...
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