Mr Kiwi the Salesman - part 2

Mr Kiwi the Salesman - part 2




Mr Kiwi has arrived home for tea after spending the day at K. C. Bunnyborough trying to sell nugget for shoes and boots. He was walking home after making no sales when he met the Chocolate family and sold them some brown nugget to rub on their ear tips to protect them from the sun.

Mr Kiwi began thinking about why he was selling nugget to rabbits who didn’t wear shoes! Mr Kiwi tells Mrs Kiwi that he is going to invent a sunscreen lotion to protect rabbit ears.

He goes into his back room which is set up like a laboratory, (a place where chemicals or medicines are manufactured). He mixes a combination of liquids together until he thinks he has just the right formula. Mr Kiwi invites his brother, a doctor, to come over and give his opinion. Doctor Kiwi nods his head with approval and advises to add a bit more of this and less of that. Mr Kiwi is also going to make his own cleaning lotion to sell.

Mr Kiwi puts his cylindrical glass bottles into his special round wooden container and loads it onto the cart. He also takes his own formula of pink nugget for the White family who live in a pink boot.

Mr Kiwi arrives at the White’s home and shows Mr White the pink boot polish he has made especially for their boot house. Mr White is impressed and buys the nugget and some transparent sunscreen lotion.   Mr White invites Mr Kiwi inside and asks him to stay and have a sing along with the family.

 


Mr Kiwi leaves feeling happy and walks to Mr and Mrs Grayson home where the Chocolate family is staying. Mr and Mrs Grayson and Mr and Mrs Chocolate are home (the children are at school). Mr Kiwi apologizes to Mr and Mrs Chocolate for selling nugget for shoes and telling them that it is good for protecting ear tips from the sun. He adds that he now has his own formula for ear protection in transparent, brown, black and grey… I can make other colours if requested.

“Am I glad to see you,” replied Mrs Chocolate. “Mr Chocolate covered the baby with nugget when he went back to collect her to bring her to K. C. Bunnyborough and I can’t wash it off!” “Don’t worry about that any longer," replied Mr Kiwi, "I have my own cleaning formula  which will remove any type of nugget.”

Mr Kiwi applied his cleaner with a cloth to baby Nugget's body and the nugget dissolved. “Oh! She looks so beautiful returned to her natural state," smiled Mrs Chocolate. Baby Pip and Brooke are amazed that Mr Kiwi has changed the colour of Nuggets fur. " I want my family to continue to have brown ear tips. It is so much easier to find my children when I go to pick them up from school.  I will buy your  brown sun protection lotion for for our ear tips."    Mr Kiwi walks home feeling very happy from making some sales.

The Chocolate Family Arrive at K. C. Bunnyborough

The Chocolate Family Arrive at K. C. Bunnyborough

The white rabbit family have arrived at K. C. Bunnyborough. They hop to Mr and Mrs Grayson’s house and knock on the door. Mr and Mrs Grayson open the door to welcome them in, but the word has got around and other rabbits have arrived to welcome them too.

“What’s happened to your ear tips?” asks Mrs Grayson. The other rabbits all murmur amongst themselves and point to the white rabbits ear tips. The mother, Teri, answers, “We met Mr Kiwi who was selling nugget. He said to rub the brown nugget on our ear tips to stop them from getting sun burnt.” “Oh really!” Mrs Grayson exclaimed.  Now was not the time to tell Teri that nugget is for shoes and boots.

The next morning, after a good sleep and wash the white rabbits notice that the brown nugget has not washed off their ear tips. The family look in the mirror and say they like the brown ear tips because it looks like their ears have a chocolate coating on them. The family will be known as the chocolate family which is appropriate because the father, Frasier, makes and sells chocolate.

The family sit down to have breakfast with the Grayson Family and Teri tells them what has happened. “We lived in a hutch as pet rabbits in Christchurch but when the first earthquake happened (4.9.10) the door of the cage opened and we escaped. We hopped constantly for three day and nights until we came to Picton. We rested in an unused burrow and I had a baby which we had to leave there because we could not swim across Cook Strait and hold the baby. Frasier swam across holding Coco and I swam across holding Freya.” Teri starts crying and Frasier announces that he is leaving this morning to go back to get the baby.

Grandpa and Grandmother Cottontail arrived just as Teri started her story. Grandpa Cottontail offers Frasier his car to drive back and Mr Grayson goes to a friend's house to borrow a boat for Frasier to row across Cook Straight.

Frasier leaves as soon as the boat arrives and drives to Wellington. He arrives at twilight, parks the car in a secluded place and rows across Cook Strait in the dark. He hops to the burrow and finds baby rabbit asleep so curls up beside her and sleeps until morning.

 It is a bright sunny morning so he rubs nugget all over baby rabbit so she doesn't get sunburnt. Then he puts her in the boat and rows back to the car.

Near the car Frasier sees a rabbit asleep by a tree. He pats the rabbit, which wakes with a fright.  She says, “I saw you arrive last night. I had just swum across Cook Strait when you lowered  the boat into the water and rowed across to Picton. I have been waiting for you to return. My burrow is blocked from the Christchurch earthquake so I am going to K. C. Bunnyborough to live.”

"Hop into the car and I will drive you there." said Frasier.  Clematis sat in the car and held the brown slippery baby while Frasier drove back to K. C. Bunnyborough.   Frasier has named the baby Nugget!

Mr Kiwi the Salesman

Mr Kiwi sells nugget for cleaning shoes and boots. Today he is going to K. C. Bunnyborough to try and sell some of his nuggets. He has heard about the new school opening in K. C. Bunnyborough and thinks the young rabbits shoes and boots will be getting dirty hopping to and fro to the school.

He packs some of his nugget tins on the trap and starts walking towards K. C. Bunnyborough.

He arrives at K. C. Bunnyborough School and sees Mr Know teaching the young rabbits. He greets Mr Know and Mr Know sees his nugget tins and says, “None of the rabbits that come to school have shoes.” Mr Kiwi looks disappointed he thought that the parents of the rabbits would have brought them shoes or boots to wear to hop to school.

He leaves the school and decides to go and visit Mr and Mrs Grayson who he knows well. On the way he sees the pink boot home and thinks I haven’t met the family that lives there so goes over and knocks on the door. Mrs White opens the door and Mr Kiwi sees that she hasn’t shoes on either! Quick thinking Mr Kiwi asks, “Can I sell you some good waterproof nugget for your boot home?” Mrs White replies, “Have you got any pink nugget?” “No, but I have transparent nugget which I can recommend.” Mr Kiwi replies smiling.  Mrs White replies "Mr White is out and I would have to consult him before I make a purchase. Can you return next week?  “Yes I can,” answers Mr Kiwi.

Mr Kiwi visits Grandpa and Grandmother Cottontail next who are having a cup of tea outside their caravan. “Would you like to buy some black nugget to rub on your caravan wheels to keep them clean and supple?” asks Mr Kiwi hopefully. “Sorry, not today.” replies Grandpa Cottontail. Grandmother Cottontail invites him to join them for  a cup of tea.

He leaves feeling refreshed after a cup of tea but disappointed because he hasn’t made any sales today. He starts walking home with his head down and nearly misses seeing the approaching white rabbit family hopping towards him.

The Father rabbit tells Mr Kiwi that he and his family are going to K. C. Bunnyborough to live and that they have been hopping for two days to get there. Mr Kiwi can see that they are hot and tired. Quick thinking Mr Kiwi asks the Father rabbit, "Have heard about the ozone layer over K. C. Bunnyborough? You need to protect your ears against the sun. The tips of your ears can get blisters from the sun and can take a long time to heal. I can sell you this brown nugget which you put on your ear tips to protect them." He offers to rub the brown nugget on his wife’s ear tips. She is delighted to have her ear tips protected from the sun and insists to her husband that they must buy a tin of nugget for the sake of the young rabbits.

Father rabbit  buys a tin of brown nugget and mother rabbit rubs it on his and the young rabbits ear tips.  They continue to hop towards K. C. Bunnyborough.   Mr Kiwi smiles with satisfaction that he has made a sale and continues to walks home.

The 1995 All Blacks Rugby Team Visit

Mr Know has put a photo on the wall of the 1995 All Blacks  Rugby team. The rabbits remember when the team came to K. C. Bunnyborough for a visit.

The All Black team demonstrated  their passing skills and went through their fitness routine. They also had a fun game of rugby with the residents of K. C. Bunnyborough at that time. There were  three  All Black team members who couldn’t visit on that day. They were No’s 1, 5 and 12. (I am still looking to buy them to complete the team.)
 

Terry Tan had recently arrived to live at K. C. Bunnyborough so he felt obligated to join in the fun game especially when he noticed some of the female rabbits were keen to play.   

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He was tackled during the game and  had his fingers stood on which upset him greatly

because he was going to play his ukelele to them after the game. 

After the fun game was over they had hot drinks and fresh fruit available... but no sing-a-long with Terry Tan and his ukelele.

K. C. Bunnyborough School

The green butterfly has flown back to K. C. Bunnyborough after spending the New  Zealand winter months back in England, where she lives. While in England she saw the side of a Sylvanian School building on a pile of rubbish. She looked again and flew down onto the side of a Sylvanian School building and thought, the rabbits at K. C. Bunnyborough could do with a school building. She asked a spider to make a web over the side of the school building so she could pick it up with her feet and fly back to New Zealand.

She is back at K. C. Bunnyborough, resting on the Azalea bush  after lowering the side of the school on the ground, when she hears Mr Know and Mr Grayson talking. She excitedly flutters over to them and tells them she has brought one side of a school building back with her for them to use to build a school in K. C. Bunnyborough.

Mr Know and Mr Grayson are very impressed with the green butterfly’s effort of bringing the side of a school back to New Zealand. Mr Know arranges a meeting with the committee  to come to the Twin Trucks at 4 pm  so they can discuss the building of a school... and  bring a chair . Grandmother Cottontail gives Grandfather Cottontail a casserole dish full of  vegetable soup to take to the meeting.

The rabbits at the meeting have decided to start building the school tomorrow morning!  Hopefully with all their help they will be finished by the evening. Mr Know volunteers to drive all the female rabbits, babies and young rabbits to Kowhai Corner Hall for the day so the noise won‘t upset the babies and the young rabbits won't get in the way while they are building.

The next morning the female rabbits, babies and young rabbits are ready for the truck ride to Kowhai Corner Hall. Mr Know didn't expect to be transporting prams and highchairs as well.

The female rabbits are enjoying their day together at the hall catching up on the news. They decide  they will start a pre school group and meet once a week in the new school building if possible. They wonder how big the school building will be.
Mr Know arrives to collect them just as the sun starts setting. He drives them to the school building so they can  have a look before they go home.

The female rabbits whisper to each other that the school is too small! If they had seen the school plan they would have change it to make it twice as big! The announcement is made that school will start tomorrow and all ages are welcome. Mr Know will be the temporary school teacher .

 The next morning eleven  rabbits arrive on time to start their school day. Mr Know tells the rabbits that a special visitor is coming after lunch to give a talk to them.

After lunch the special visitor arrives and it is Miffy! Miffy tells them about her adventures she has in her books and encourages them to enjoy their learning at school. One of them may write a book in the future and she will want to read it.

There was a Rabbit Family ...

There was a rabbit family that lived in a blue boot.

When the washing was finished they gave a loud hoot.

A Picnic at Tree Hut Park

Grandpa and Grandma Cottontail are taking Gene and Gregg, baby Pip Grayson and Greg and baby Brooke Grayson-Blue to Tree Hut Park for a picnic.  Grandpa Cottontail drives the to Tree Hut Park.

They arrive at Tree Hut Park they see the Lemon family  there. Len, Larry and Les are on the tree hut playing.   They wave and shout  to the Grayson children  to come and join them.

The Grayson rabbits get out of the car and hop towards the see saw because they want to have a see saw  first.

Larry and Len practice their balancing. Larry is on the arch bridge and Len is on the rope bridge. Grandma Cottontail  invites Mrs Lemon and  her family to join them in their picnic.

The rabbits have hopped  to the branch arch which use to have a tyre swing hanging from it.  Only the chain  remains hanging down but the rabbits can jump up and grab the chain with both hands and swing then jump off.

Grandma Cottontail spreads the table cloth on the ground and puts the basket of donuts and cream horns on the table cloth. The rabbits eat them all and  have an orange drink. The rabbits ask if they can go and play on the pile of pruned branches. “Yes you can,” says Grandpa Cottontail and Mrs Lemon nods her head in agreement. Grandma Cottontail pours Grandpa Cottontail and Mrs Lemon a cup of tea and  they are  chatting when they hear a high pitched squealing sound. “What’s that noise?” asks Grandpa Cottontail as he  turns round to look at the children playing on the pile of pruned branches.

Larry yells to the adults that the noise has come from under the pile of twigs. Greg Grayson jumps off a branch and bends down and sees a baby guinea pig face.  He reaches down and picks the baby guinea pig up.   The guinea pig feels cold.  He hops back to Grandma Cottontail and passes the baby guinea pig to her. Grandma Cottontail rubs the baby guinea to warm him up. She asks him where is his mother but the baby guinea pig is too young to talk and has gone limp.

“Quick into the car everyone,” says Grandpa Cottontail. “We must get this baby guinea home and put him into a warm bed with a hottie."   The Lemon family all wave and say goodbye as the car leaves the Tree Hut Park.

Part two is called Found and Returned

K. C. Bunnyborough Photo Album 2010

The Kowhai tree in flower (yellow flowers) taken in Spring 2009.

The Sylvanian rabbits looking at the first page of a book called Bunnyborough printed in 1946.

This is the second page of the Bunnyborough book.   I was disappointed with this story because  the main character is a dog.    I got the name of this book to name Kowhai Corner Bunnyborough.

Mr and Mrs Grayson with twins, Gene and Grace and Richard with cousins Bluebell and Greg Grayson/Blue having fun in the snow at Fox Glacier.

A Sylvanian Family Table and Chairs by Flair.