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meetings were the ones related to the leaders and one eight-year-old, who was frightened of Nanny Piggins after she yelled at her for eating a bacon sandwich.
    Nanny Piggins’ scheme of revenge came to its glorious conclusion when Barn Owl turned up at Mr Green’s doorstep in tears.
    ‘Do come in,’ said Nanny Piggins. She could be gracious now that she had won.
    Barn Owl went into the living room and collapsed in a chair, sobbing. ‘Please, please, you have to stop this. If the Pig Scouts spread out nationally, then internationally, the Buzzy Bees will be finished.’
    ‘Exactly,’ said Nanny Piggins.
    ‘But why would you set out to destroy an organisation that only strives to do good works in the community and provide healthy outdoor activities for young girls?’ asked Barn Owl, as Samantha handed her a fresh tissue so she could weep some more.
    ‘Because there are some things much more important than good deeds and healthy children,’ said Nanny Piggins. ‘Such as my family’s sacred biscuit recipe being stolen by the Buzzy Bees!’
    ‘The biscuit recipe!’ exclaimed Barn Owl. ‘It comes from your family?’
    ‘Of course! No-one but a Piggins could devise a biscuit that delicious,’ said Boris. He was proud of his sister.
    ‘Then the legend is true,’ said Barn Owl, a look of awe upon her face.
    ‘What legend?’ asked Derrick.
    ‘According to Buzzy Bee lore, a great pig with super culinary powers gave the biscuit recipe to Lady Marigold Pickford shortly after the Buzzy Bees was founded,’ explained Barn Owl.
    ‘Hah,’ scoffed Nanny Piggins. ‘Why on earth would my great-great-grandmother share a biscuit recipe with someone as unworthy as a non-pig?’
    ‘Apparently she did it to shut Lady MarigoldPickford up,’ said Barn Owl. ‘I believe she could be a bit of a nag.’
    ‘That makes sense,’ conceded Nanny Piggins. ‘The Pigginses have always used food as a way of shutting people up. It is also good for drawing people out, getting people to reveal secrets and persuading people to spontaneously do cartwheels.’
    ‘So can we call a truce?’ begged Barn Owl.
    ‘Better than that,’ said Nanny Piggins. ‘I will entirely disband the Pig Scouts.’
    ‘Why?’ exclaimed Samantha. ‘Things are going so well.’
    ‘Because I don’t believe in organisations,’ explained Nanny Piggins. ‘They’re fine when you need to get revenge for your family’s stolen biscuit recipe. But girls don’t need an organisation to teach them how to be girls. Girls are much better off figuring out how to be girls for themselves.’
    ‘I couldn’t agree with you less,’ said Barn Owl.
    ‘I know,’ said Nanny Piggins. ‘That is why you are a middle-aged woman wearing a uniform and playing with schoolgirls. Whereas I am an internationally renowned, incredibly glamorous, flying pig.’
    So Barn Owl left a happy Buzzy Bee leader. And Nanny Piggins graciously refrained from kickingher in the bottom as she walked down the front steps. The Pig Scouts were disbanded before their biscuit drive had even begun. So Nanny Piggins, Boris and the children were able to spend a happy week eating their way through two hundred cases of delicious choc-chip biscuits.

‘Nanny Piggins! Nanny Piggins!!’ shrieked Michael.
    ‘What is it?’ asked Nanny Piggins. Which just goes to show what a caring nanny she was, because Nanny Piggins was watching her favourite soap opera, ‘The Young and the Irritable’, with Derrick, Samantha and Boris. And normally if anyone tried to speak to Nanny Piggins while Bethanywas telling Crevasse that their son was really his brother’s nephew’s father, Nanny Piggins would have pretended she was deaf until the commercial break, then soundly told them off for interrupting her. But Nanny Piggins could tell from the note of horror in Michael’s voice that something serious was going on (not as serious as Bethany’s twin sister coming out of a coma on ‘The Young and the Irritable’, but