<Looks around for Barefoot Andy to ask him where he got that strawberry cheesecake, and whether there might be any plain, without strawberries.>

<Gives it up and makes dulce de leche for everyone instead.>

<Contemplates adding some extra supports to the treehouse in order to hold up all the elephants, but gets bored.>

<advises the pie-makers that setting them out on a table just below the treehouse might be a bad idea>

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<brings in urn of mucus-free cocoa>
<hands XMorph a fresh cup>

<takes cup gratefully and gives Mooxico a gratitude cookie>

<ponders the possiblity of getting lynched if she introduces fresh fruit into the dessert buffet>

<starts chanting a lynching, a lynching, we're gonna have a lynching>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<finishes cake, and tries to lean over to the cake table - from the top of the elephant>

<leans to far, and slips>

<lands face first in a banana cream pie>

<regrets getting his clown degree, but eats the pie anyway.>



<< insert hilariously witty quote here >>

<whilst everyone is baying for blood in the lynching, slips some apples into pocket for the pony who has started sulking about being replaced by an elephant>

<Has some more chocolate cake and contemplates the combination of the tree house, the elephant and the potentially stormy weater>

<Decides to grab an umbrella and sticks a very large trampoline under the tree house>

<munches more cake>

.bounces on trampoline to test.
.knocks nut against treehouse floor.
.glares balefully at nem.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<wanders in>

<grabs some cake>

<mumbles thanks around mouthful of cake>

<starts to build a hamster detection device, so as to make it easier to make hamster jam>

(winces) Sorry Martin!

<loosens the springs to lessen the bounce then wraps a bag of frozen peas in a tea towel and gives it to Martin along with a big slab of Chocolate cake to make him feel better>

<wonders if he would like a shot on the slide she has put up as an emergency
exit?>

<feeling bloated so has a glass of water and surveys the goody table to see what is next on the list, wonders what hamster jam tastes like?>

<Wonders if the inflatable slide/raft attached to the emergency exit is big enough to hold the elephants, and tosses three on it to see.>

<Gets plunger and examines elephant-based blockage on slide>

<Inhales through side of mouth & mutters about how it's a tricky job and it's gonna cost you>

<Points, shouts "Look, Charlotte Bronte!" and then shoves the elephants down while everyone's distracted>

<ponders is Charlotte can still bronte at her age>

<spots elephants performing aerial ballet before landing on food table>

<rushes to patent elephant, rhubarb, and lemon meringue pie>

<discards idea of making trunk call to patent office>

<hopes nemades never attempts to write "meringue" as damage to English spelling could be terminal>

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

<Holds up signs saying "Save the hamsters" with cute looking hamsters on them>

<Waves it angrily at 198505>

<Checks whether hamsters are still glued on properly>

<thinks about challenging SkidMarks claim to rhubarb>

<ponders if he reallywants to have a patent on rhubarb>

<on the other hand, rhubarb leaves might be of some value if one of the elephants has his ears mutiliated>

<provide clarifiction that patent is for the combination of rhubarb, elephant and lemon meringue in a single pie>

<would like a patent on rhubarb, but it has been around too long for the Patent Office to consider it, even if a bribe of substantial proportions was forthcoming>

<sits around watching everyone, notices a snake slithering along>

<watches as snake makes a v-line for the table of cakes>

<darts over to get herself a piece of everything, piling plate high, before trouble errupts with snake>

<settles back down in corner to watch what happens>

<finds herself uncomfortable, on inspection sees she is sitting on a nut!>

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"I've always believed that it would be up to the young people to save the Endangered Wildlife for the future." - George Adamson.

<waves device at sign>

<gasps in awe as dail goes up>

<moves device away from sign>

<sighs as dail goes down>

<wunders if he has created a sign detector>

<looks at que at the Patent Office, and ponders>

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

<decides to patent her new form of the English language as it is a whole lot more fun what with the interactive "Guess what I am writing game" and "Why use traditional spelling conventions when you get points for originality game!">

<Notices snake heading towards the table and decides to blow manners to hell and grab the whole plate of chocolate cake>

<Remembers having used a snake in her honours dissertation experiment with nursery kids last year, wonders if this is the same snake?>

<Wonders what will happen in the event of an actual emergency what with people now making the elephants slide over and over again for fun and discussion>

<has to reprimand the snake quickly who is trying to muscle in on the chocolate cake - bad greedy snake! it has the whole table!!!>

<Decides to patent a table full of food as a snake-trap.>