1976…

In 1976, the Beanstalk Method of reaching Brobdingnag from earth was gone, as both beanstalks had been blown up. The Law of Conservation of Lass and Miniature states that each method lost must be replaced by another, and this is how the next method was discovered:

Early in 1976, while the Queen’s forces were taking on Ann and company, a red haired American teenage boy named Robin Speed went on a boating trip and discovered an L shaped island in the Bermuda area. He named it the Bermuda Right Angle, and took advantage of the huge financial inheritance he had received when he became an orphan.

He built a home and headquarters on the island, having staked his claim to the land. Then he designed a red costume with yellow gloves and boots, and a cap and eye mask, to disguise his identity. The mask also had infra-red lenses, to enable him to see at night. He had a submarine built and a docking port on the island for it, and called it the Archer Sub in honour of his new persona of Boy Archer, a name he derived from his years of perfecting the skills he had in his favourite hobby of archery, even as a small child. He had a vertical take-off and landing plane built as well, and called it the Archer Plane.

With all of this new equipment, and a private island to hide out on Boy Archer fought against various menaces in the United States of America. A few months on into 1976, he had a dry spell, when his services weren’t needed, and decided that it was time to test the, as yet, unused Archer Sub. Using its special feature: the Flat Helm Drive, he took the sub deeper into the Bermuda area than any other ocean going craft had gone before.

Then he came to a spot where the water colour seemed to change. That deep, it usually looked a darkened form of green, as the sun’s rays were refracted somewhat through so much water depth. Yet in one particular large spot, the water seemed to be glowing bright blue.

Boy Archer continued on through the brighter part, and then decided to surface and take his bearings. When the Archer Sub reached the surface, he saw that he seemed to be at the shores of an unfamiliar continent, with an enormous jetty ahead of him. He was surprised to find that he could then go down and bring the sub right up to the jetty. The water depth did not make the exercise prohibitive in any way. He took off his cap and mask, feeling somewhat uncomfortable with them on such a particularly warm day.

As soon as he removed the mask, he found he could no longer see the jetty.

“It must be an invisible jetty,” he thought, “one which I could only see through the infra-red lenses of my mask. What an extraordinary phenomenon.”

CENTURIES EARLIER …

When Hans Christian Andersen had first heard Mrs Grimble declaring her desire to eat him, had the Queen’s laws not prevented it, he returned home somewhat surprised. It was amazing to think that a woman would find happiness and amusement in doing something which would cost a boy so much Yet Hans had been dreaming of writing children’s stories all his life, and nothing seemed like more captivating subject matter than being eaten by a beautiful giantess.

Hans returned to Mrs Grimble’s house and told her of his writing aspirations, and asked if he could use her as his muse.

“I’d be honoured,” she said, and spent his next few visits slowly narrating the details of her past gobbling conquests, as well as those of other giantesses with whom she’d made friends in the Valley.

Hans would return to her, having written adaptations of them, and read them to her. Mrs Grimble was very impressed with his writing ability and the sense of mischief that he worked into the characters based on her. She encouraged him to take them to a publisher.