Presenting, with the aid of illustrations, the tale of an intrepid archaeologist, her trusty team and her quest to untangle the history of a house. It’s the story of a long lost age, a story for the ages, an age old story, a coming of age story, an epic tale from ages ago, but mostly it’s the story of a girl and her measuring tape[1], facing off against the murky mysteries of ages past with little to no plot of any kind[2].
Once upon a time there was a house[3] and an archaeologist[4]….
Part one: in which the measure of a house is taken and courage gathered for the task ahead.
Part 2: In which a mysterious cupboard is encountered.
Part 3: in which, even more mysteriously, a cupboard is discovered within the cupboard.
Part 4: in which, in the exploratory spirit for which archaeologists are famed, our hero investigates and finds herself in a strange and disturbing world…
Part 5: in which she is greeted by a trusty historical researcher, who appears in a blaze of light from the planet Vulcan, bearing a sample of historical timber as a gift of friendship.
Part 6: in which the archaeologist and historical researcher venture into the outdoors, animal friends are made and a musical number spontaneously occurs, until – in a case of sudden but inevitable betrayal – the ducks turn on their new friends and steal our archaeologist’s lunch (true story).
Part 7: in which a wise yet enigmatic buildings archaeologist with a fondness for puns is inexplicably encountered in a bathtub and persuaded, mostly with coffee, to join the fray.
Part 8: in which the team is struck down temporarily by the stick of malaise, a reference so obscure the narrator is fairly certain only the office of Underground Overground will get it.
Part 9: in which, still recovering from her battle with the stick of malaise, our archaeologist forgets which story she’s in and makes a brief, yet ill-fated attempt to use her hair as a ladder.
Part 10: in which our archaeologist, with her new friends, manages to find her way back and, good archaeologist that she is, makes sure to record the inception cupboard that led to so many adventures, and all is well.
[1] Known to its friends as Super Tape
[2] NOT featuring: princes, swooning or the rescuing of any maidens (we’re archaeologists, not damsels in distress)
[3] Actually several houses. We had to take a bit of artistic license with the telling of this story…
[4] Her name is Kirsa Webb. As well as being a buildings archaeologist extraordinaire, she is an amazingly good sport about being turned in to the protagonist of a somewhat silly fairytale.
Jessie Garland
here is a reply.
being somewhat short (well for this particular reply anyway), i could only reach the lower-cased replies.
if i could have borrowed your stick~of~malaise, i may have been able to just reach the upper cased replies for you.
fortunately i can stand on a shift key, and send you one of these 🙂
i really like your various posts. although not all from the same fence, they each have a quality and persona all their own. 🙂