Apparently beyond all this overgrown scrub and wasteland lies a house with a veranda. On that veranda sleeps a princess on a bed of roses. According to what I read, one kiss and the princess shall awake and the princess and the kisser shall live happily ever after.
That is why I have always brought my machete with me on every foray into the forest. One day, in hunting for the wild boar of the forest, I may come across impenetrable undergrowth. And here now seems to be such a thing. I have been hacking away at the prolific forestation for a good half hour.
There! I can see the house with a veranda. Another five minutes and I should be able to climb the steps to the bed of roses.
And here it is; the most beautiful princess asleep on a bed of roses! I bend down with puckered lips. I kiss. She wakes! She sits up! WOW! I have never seen anyone so beautiful. I am in love! I am bewitched!
Oh! But now I see the kiss has turned me into a frog. Truth is stranger than fiction. Life is never straightforward.
Weave a Web 
You have apparently rendered your fans speechless, which is yet another strange event.
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It’s taken years, but I knew it could be achieved.
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NowI have to back to post 1 to see how many years it has been.
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WordPress congratulated me yesterday on 9 years – but this blog was my second attempt. I think I had been going on the first for a couple of months.
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2013. When we were young.
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Ha! When I had a broken leg!
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Really!?
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I fell down a bank checking on the goat and used crutches for a year!
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Crikey, it must have been a very bad break. Poor BA.
(Was it the Kiwibank? Why were you checking on a goat at a Bank?)
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Some people are just backwards and we have to make allowances.
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You’re starting to sound like Kamala Harris, Herb!
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I don’t have the evil cackle down yet.
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The cackle takes practice!
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Well the kisser will live happy ever after so theres that!
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If he doesn’t croak.
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I was going to ask if the Princess wore open toad shoes?
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Crocs. Do you call crocs crocs over there?
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No…we usually call them alligators! I know they are different
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Is that the footwear that you call alligators? https://www.crocs.com/p/classic-all-terrain-clog/206340.html?cgid=women-footwear&cid=700#start=1
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Oh Crocs…sorry! LOL… my mind was on the animals.
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Little did the adventurer realise that the beautiful princess was in absolute love of grilled, barbecued frogs?
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She devoured him.
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Frogs legs are good!
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Not as nice as snails.
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I ate sea snails the other day. Some coffee shop here actually served them with salsa which is very rare considering most of the meat we get here is either chicken or mutton.
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This story is so surreal. Perhaps the princess picked up the machete and became a killer who speaks to frogs. Anything is possible in the Goodman Multiverse.
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However, the Goodmanverse is wearing thin – I’m literally dragging myself to Story 2500!
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I have an idea. Why not bring back characters from past stories and merge tales together? That way it will really be the Goodmanverse.
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It sounds very exhausting Nitin! I think that come Story 2500 I will do music but not for the blog. And I was thinking of learning Latin just for the heck of it.
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Why not? I’m thinking of learning another language myself. Perhaps I’ll write in French one day. Jhumpa Lahiri an American Indian author who won the Pulitzer some years ago, studied Italian and wrote a book in the language. It’s never too late to do something new. I might take a vacation from blogging and learn the bass guitar.
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Here I was thinking you would accidentally kill her with the machete.
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I ‘m not that keen on bloody murders.!
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Sure.
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