Hi Guys, it’s me, Cheeky Monkey HD.com, here shortly after I’ve been transported to another world along with my pals, Cheeky Cat 1080p and Daft Dog 4KUHD.

“Can I have a treat yet?” asked DD4KUHD.

“I think we should probably assess our current situation first, don’t you?” I replied.

“No, I wanna treat.” 

“Well you can’t,” I stated with a firm, yet understanding tone.  It’s important to set boundaries with dogs, even if they can talk.

“I wanna treat, I wanna treat, I wanna treat, I wanna treat, I wanna treat,” whined the ever ungrateful pup.

It took a while to take off my backpack, take out most of the items, find a packet of cat sticks, break one of the sticks into little pieces, put the pieces into his special toy that he has to eat his treats out of, put the packet of cat sticks back in the back pack, start repacking the rest of the picnic, having to unpack everything that I’d repacked so far because he already wanted another one, then re-repacked the things I’d repacked and repack the things that had been unpacked and then do up all the straps on the back pack.  In fact it took so long that it was clear that we were not in any immediate danger, and CC1080p had become bored of chasing the bird and had come back to see us.

Frankly, I was exhausted and we had a sit down.  I would have liked a drink and a snack but, seriously, I wasn’t going through that again.  At any rate, it gave us the perfect opportunity to survey our surroundings.  Previous chapters have established the following facts about the ‘other world’:

• Vast swathes of countryside
• Fields and trees
• Presence of birds
• Has grass which smells particularly grass-like

And, sure, this is a great starting point, but isn’t it the job of every transdimension traveller/author to fully document any exotic locales that they come across? Sadly, yes.

The place looked to be generally earthlike: ground, sky, sun, clouds etc.  The air was breathable…thankfully (lol).  It was lovely and sunny, warm but not too hot. The ground was lovely and soft to sit on, but not wet so my bum bum remained dry.  The grass felt silky smooth and seemed to dare me to take off my shoes and socks.  A pleasant waft of flower stench blew breezily across the plain, like a fancy air freshener.  You know the ones that have a bottle and some sticks sticking out of it? Like a good one of them.  

In short, it was dead nice and the perfect place for a picnic.

“If I’m honest,” I said.  “I was expecting something a little more dramatic to be going on over here, but ultimately it’s just a bit of lovely yet a bit boring countryside. Let’s just enjoy the picnic with absolutely no cares in the world… either of them lol.”

CC1080p scowled at me.

“Mow,” she said.”

I looked at DD4KUHD for clarification.

“She said that you’ve just tempted fate which will inevitably ruin the day,” he said.

“Poppycock!” I exclaimed. “I don’t believe in any of that mumbo jumbo.  Nothing could possibly go wrong here.”

It was at this point that we realised we had been approached by a big blonde fella on horseback.  He was wearing some kind of armour like off of the olden days.

“Greetings,” said the stranger, like a kind of mediaeval Joey Boswell.  “Huzzah! It appears as though the prophecy has been fulfilled.”

“Well done,” said DD4KUHD, looking at me with more than a hint of sarcasm in both his voice and his face. “You’ve officially tempted fate.”

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