And now, our exciting next episode....
It's not likely we're to spend the first half of the night sharing sandwiches, biscuits, grapes, carrot pie, fresh grass, apples and upside down cakes with Pepi Nana and the gang from Moon & Me, but a full appetite requires music to dance to. Tell that to the Clangers.
A pod-shell thing floats endlessly in Space, not seen by a busy Iron Chicken, who is cleaning her nest...until Small catches it - it's natural the thing came from another planet. Whilst everyone is cleaning the cutlery, Small stops them to show them the thing - they're very curious and fascinated at the same time, but Small gives it to Mother as a present. She places it into her garden, so she can look at it whilst...hey, she's singing, but her tune is repeated! It might've come from the thing, no doubt. It suddenly jumps off the platform and begins to move, but stands still when people notice. Tiny's flower friends come to see and sing, but of course nothing happens. Until it happens! And it is noticed!
Mother takes the thing to show the others, and tells them about how it makes music. Tiny demonstrates by playing a tune on her panpipes, and after a minutes' silence, the thing starts to make music yet again. After Major's back is turned, the tune starts up and everyone gathers to see it bow to its audience. This gives Tiny an idea alright, and she brings it to the Music Trees, which sends another part of the tune straight into the thing. Everyone including the Iron Chicken gathers to let Tiny explain the thing's experimental mission to make tonight's marvelous melody.
They listen to the thing play goofy music out of sound effects, to which they all dance to. Major wants to study it, but the thing begins to fly around, then play tonight's marvelous melody in full, flying like the wind around its new friends and into the air, bringing together those who make marvelous melodies. The Clangers wave goodbye to their new friend as it sets off straight into the sky and out of sight.
If only I was there from 2015 to 2018 to see the marvelous melodies that shaped the Clangers wherever they went, then I could get more inspiration for I.B.F.F Diaries.
Goodnight, Tiny. Goodnight, Small.
