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This is Toplight Time Machine, I am I do lots of baa baa baa baa

I'm sadly delaying so what? Welcome to the twit sort of C part 10. We're going through the

Royal Dark Classic, the Twits, illustrated by Quentin Blake and we are at the point where

we're in the chapter which has got the best chapter, the best title of any chapter in the book

Missly Misses, Twit go off to buy guns, which is all you can ask for in a children's book isn't

that the acquisition of firearms. In any book, someone send a chat to the start so the

protagonist go off to buy guns thinking things are ramping up here. Yeah and when it's a kid's book

even better and when they've got a roof that's covered in birds while you know what's going up

next don't you. That's where we left it I think wasn't it we all the birds were on the roof because

the the cage the monkeys are in was covered in glue the branches of the tree was covered in glue

so all the birds are taken to the the roof of the house and Mrs Twitt had scored and Mr Twitt said

I won't have you smearing sticky glue on over the roof of our house

to which Mr Twitt got very excited it says I've got a great idea he cried he didn't bother

to keep his voice down because he didn't think the monkeys could understand how wrong he was

how very wrong he was and that's why he's the fool in this story uh he says we're both going

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