The Dad who worked with a Bunch of Fairies - post 4

Hello,

Trouble at the PLANT

Have you found the villain for me yet?   Remember I asked you last time to tell me who you thought the villain would be, I hoped you would be very good detectives.   Please put your brains to work quickly it is becoming urgent.

 

There is trouble at the plant.   Things have gone wrong and Dad is very worried.   He is working extra long hours there to try to find the trouble.   His bunch of fairies are grumpy and quarrelsome.   They appear to have not enough work.   The dustbin lorries arrive intermittently and the fairies complain that the lorries are not the right size which makes the off-loading of the waste difficult.

People in the towns and villages near the plant complain that it smells awful when the wind blows their way.  They complain to Dad that they didn't EVER want an AD Plant near them even though they understand that, generally speaking, AD Plants are a Very-Good-Thing.   Dad says they are known as NIMBYs which is a really neat acronym meaning that the people do not want an AD Plant near them or "Not In My Back Yard".    They moan and mutter it is all very well when it works well but now look at the mess, the smell and the RATS, especially the rats.

There are a lot of rats too.   Very big, very fat rats - the kind you see more commonly round the Motorway Services where there are generous throw outs from MacDonalds and the like.  You know, where travellers eat half their Big Mac and shove the rest in the bin?   That is wonderful for the rats.   Many people do NOT like rats.   It is rather unfair because the rats do a very good job cleaning up our throw aways and rubbish.   However, if we throw out too much the rats do get bigger, fatter and more and more plentiful.   In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the rats didn't feel rather bloated and sick from living on a diet of too much junk food and not enough balanced diet.   It is unkind to hate rats just because they are rats.  You would like them if they were sweet rabbits or  cute panda bears - but they are rats and the best little dustbin work force we could have only something has gone wrong even here.  There are too many of them sitting around looking decidedly scabby and unwell.

Everyone is blaming everyone else for all the bad things.   The media - that is the newspapers, radio and television stations, blame anyone who they think will make a good villain and newsworthy story.

The politicians are blaming each other as usual.   No one is really listening to them except the media people when they think the story will be gruesome or dramatic enough to broadcast or print.

The Fairies are blaming the dustbin lorries and the local councils.

The villagers and townsfolk are blaming the AD Plant.

But who - oh WHO is the real villain here?

Poor Dad, he has to check everything.   Everything except the politicians that is.   He knows he has a very special Fairy whose job it is to make sure the politicians are given just enough of the right information to keep them from blaming the AD Plant.   That would be bad for everyone, but nevertheless Dad is extremely worried about the AD Plant.   It just isn't working properly.

The methane is gathering and not being used up to make the plant's electricity.
The waste is not being delivered properly.  So it is not being processed correctly and fetiliser is not being made.
The farmers want fertiliser to put on their fields, especially now in the spring, when they plant their crops.

It is a very unhappy situation.

Come on children - we need you to help us find the villain who has put us in this dreadful pickle.  I think you still have one more week of your holiday to help Dad solve the problem.

The picture on the right is NOT one of my fairies, I found her on the internet, even though she hasn't got pink hair I think this fairy is a fake...what we need is a detective to help solve the problem!