Just 6 months back the Riveting Emporium was set-up by Wallace & Gromit to supply fixings to the Cheese trade.
In that short time Gromit has counted 987,654,321 rivets without so much as a bowl of Meatabix from Wallace.
Whilst they outsource their Iron & Ali rivets they are immensely proud of their Organic Copper Rivets that recently won a Gold Award at the 77th International Rivet Makers Conference held in Sane City.
These Organic Copper Rivets are nurtured in special enclosures called COBBLERS. The enclosure is filled with small and large cobbles, the small for the young rivets whilst the large cobbles provide a fertile bed that encourages strong rivet growth prior to the Rivet Harvest in September.
Each Cobblers Enclosure is surrounded by a low wall just 25” high. Why? You may well ask – to prevent the notorious Rivet Fly from destroying the crop. This obviated the Gneed for Anti-Pesto.
This fly is prevalent during the early growing season in May.
It cannot destroy Wallace’s crop as it’s incapable of flying higher than 24”!
However there have been instances when Shawn the Sheep has jumped over the walls dislodging stones such that the Rivet Fly has entered the COBBLERS enclosure.
Rivet Flies have an uncanny knack in locating Rivets being able to sense them at a distance of 2 miles!
In 2013, acknowledging the publicity debt owed to Wallace, the Wensleydale Decennial Games [the origins of which are lost in the mists of time] have asked Wallace, not forgetting Gromit, to open this event.
Wallace was also asked whether he could provide Rivet Medals to present to the winners.
At the last Games in 2003 the organisers presented Gnutty medals however these were manufactured in a factory with poor hygiene resulting in them being contaminated with pips!
Wallace proudly offered his Organic Copper Rivets to the organisers who have accepted.
For those who haven’t been aware of the Wensleydale Decennial Games perhaps I should explain a little about the contests:
Rolling the Cheese, only open to Fellrunners.
Cheeseput.
Cheese relay, baton replaced by a W&G Truckle.
Tossing the Cheese, similar to Cheeseput however the cheese has to be balanced upon the end of a Caber.
Cheesathlon , a bit of a mouthful.
There are others but I’ll bore you with the details.
Gromit has suggested that the best way to get the Organic Copper Rivets to the Games would be to use the train.
Unfortunately Feathers McGraw has got wind of this and plans to ambush the train and hijack the Rivets.
Kids will have control of Feathers who has armaments to destroy the train.
Will W&G get through or does Feathers McGraw have the last laugh.
To find out you’ll have to see “A Riveting Day Out” at a local Model Rail Show sometime in 2013 onwards.
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