7.0: The Storytime (teaser)
Sleep patterns in the Potting Shed vary with the season. In winter, when things get light only around 9am, the scheduled 8am start of breakfast seems too early. In summer, creatures start to gather round the toasters and crank up the coffee machine much, much earlier than 8am. Indeed, breakfast is often finished by then. At the height of summer, it can be hard to sleep more than a few hours in the middle of the night. While the windows on the ground floor and the first and second floor sleeping mezzanines have curtains, the roof lights do not and so the it can get light as early as 3am. And thus, a tradition has sprung up to tell stories, or rather a single story, late into the night around midsummer. Year by year, there have been additions to the customs and practices of telling the story and Alcock, being the organising chairman that he is, has drawn up a list of rules. The story is initiated by a challenge set by a creature elected to play the role of ‘Trickst...
