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Queen and what I say goes!’
    â€˜That’s a shame,’ said Michael, looking at his watch.
    â€˜What do you mean, “that’s a shame”?’ asked Nanny Piggins. ‘You should be grateful to be a founding citizen of what is sure to be the Nanny Piggins Empire.’
    â€˜Don’t you mean the Chocolatasia Empire?’ asked Samantha.
    â€˜Same thing,’ said Nanny Piggins.
    â€˜I just meant it’s a shame because The Young and the Irritable starts in twenty minutes and we’re going to miss it,’ said Michael.
    â€˜Right, that’s it,’ said Nanny Piggins. ‘I declare Chocolatasia to be over. Pack up, we’re getting out of here!’

    Obviously Nanny Piggins, Boris and the children could not go home because their house was still full of toxic gas. And as much as Nanny Piggins loved The Young and the Irritable , even she was not prepared to risk asphyxiation just to find out if Ridge would finally pop the question to Bethany. (He had been agonising for weeks over whether he should ask her if she really was the reincarnated spirit of his mother’s dog, Rosie.) So they were still camping, but they had found a much more satisfactory camp site than the woods.
    â€˜It was a brilliant idea to rebuild our hut inside Hans’ bakery,’ said Derrick, during an ad break.
    â€˜Thank you,’ said Nanny Piggins. ‘I don’t know why I didn’t think of it earlier. If you are going to rough it and live off the land, the land inside a baker’s shop is a much more sensible place to be than the woods.’
    â€˜Plus he lent you his portable TV,’ added Michael.
    â€˜Hans is not just a culinary artist,’ said Nanny Piggins, ‘he is also a wonderful man.’
    â€˜A man who had a realistic idea of how much cake he would sell if he allowed Nanny Piggins to live in his shop for six days,’ added Samantha.
    â€˜Yes, I just gave him Mr Green’s credit card to keep,’ agreed Nanny Piggins. ‘Your father really was very naughty abandoning us and leaving us to forage for food, so he only has himself to blame if we have Hans’ most expensive treat – chocolate fudge hot cake with extra chocolate, extra fudge and extra cake at every meal for the rest of the week.

Nanny Piggins, Boris and the children were sitting on the bench outside the supermarket. They had been given a ‘time-out’ by the supermarket manager. He did not want to ban them from the supermarket entirely, because Nanny Piggins spent so much on flour, eggs, butter and other cake-making ingredients. He could not afford to lose her as a customer. But she had become so hysterically overexcited by the discovery of a new brand of cappuccino-flavoured chocolate in the confectionary aisle that he’d had to intervene. He had sent her outside to sit on the bench for 17 minutes (a minute for every block of chocolate she had eaten) while she calmed down. Then, if she apologised for scaring the other customers, she would be allowed back in.
    Nanny Piggins would have dearly loved to denounce the supermarket manager and swear that she would never come back to his establishment again, but she knew lying was wrong. And there was no way she would be able to stay away when there were still 23 blocks of cappuccino chocolate sitting on the supermarket shelf.
    â€˜Hmmpf,’ said Nanny Piggins sulkily as she kicked her legs back and forth and crossed her arms tighter while thinking nasty thoughts about the manager.
    â€˜Three minutes have gone already,’ said Samantha helpfully, ‘so only fourteen more minutes to go.’
    â€˜If I scared the other customers, it’s his fault,’ grumbled Nanny Piggins.
    â€˜It is?’ asked Derrick.
    â€˜If he is going to have such dangerously delicious chocolate in his supermarket he should warn people, with a letterbox drop to everyone in the neighbourhood and a full-page advertisement in