‘Did I ever tell you the story about my cousin the cobbler?’ asked Nanny Piggins.
Nanny Piggins, Boris and the children happened to be eating apple cobbler at the time. Apple cobbler is a delicious dessert made with stewed apples and sweet dumplings baked on top. Nanny Piggins’ version of apple cobbler was particularly delicious because she had tweaked the recipe. Instead of just apples, she added chocolate. In fact, five kilos of chocolate for every one kilo of apple. She said this was necessary to ‘balance’ the flavour. And the children did not argue. After just one serving, Derrick, Samantha and Michael were too sugar-addled to say anything rational anyway. So when Nanny Piggins said she was related to a cobbler, this did somewhat confuse poor Michael.
‘You’re related to a fruit-based dessert?’ he asked. This was not such a ridiculous question. Nanny Piggins was a pig and yet she managed to be related to a bear (her brother) and, they had recently discovered, a goat (a distant cousin).
To be related to dessert might seem strange for a normal person, but Nanny Piggins was in every way so extraordinary it was just the type of thing she’d find some way of doing…
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