A Tuesday Adventure With Peanut

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A Tuesday Adventure With Peanut

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Everyone’s favorite duo known as Corey and Oats went on many adventures together with their friends including Piff and a major part of those adventures was the ‘sleepover’  series in which Piff and Peanut got to spend time together over a period of several days per month and these adventures were a great time for both of them.

Including being a form of character development for both of them and they’d get to work off each-other as a team and have fun together and also they would sometimes create adventures using magic, and Peanut always left Nile Road at the end of each sleepover feeling very happy and cheerful.  On the 22nd of September, 2026 the gang all woke up and had breakfast together before looking through plans for an adventure.

Piff thought it would be a great idea to show Peanut one of his favorite kinds of adventures, one where the gang learned something and after breakfast he asked Mel if he could some magic from the spellbook to open up a special portal of sorts,  she responded with…’Yes, but as long as you are careful’.  Piff responded with…’Sure, I will be careful’ and he used some magic to open the portal.

They all jumped through the portal as Piff showed Peanut the entrance of a special place, explaining that he had taken the nostalgia themed adventures they had been on in the past and made it an official tour attraction as they all jumped through another portal,  through that portal they all jumped through the other side.

Upon arriving through the other side they all arrived in Mel’s old home in England, which was in Frimley Green, specifically Lansdowne Road.  They all looked around and Piff let Peanut explore,  they all looked in the living room and they saw a television with a multitude of different channels including Nickelodeon and Fox Kids.   

 

Piff used a lot of information from Mel including how some channels used to closedown at night during the late 90s when creating the ‘Piff Channel’,  he looked at what appeared to be a collection of VHS tapes including BBC Children’s Favorite as well as Elvis: The Greatest Performances, among several others including one containing a few CITV shows, he showed Peanut the Argos catalogue, he had shown him the joys of the catalogue before but it was always fun to look inside and see the things you could buy.

‘Wow Piff, you can get anything from this book, that’s just amazing.’  ‘Yeah, even furniture and clothes but the best part is the games and toys.’  Mel nodded. ‘Yeah, so many choices of figures and toys to get including Disney, Pokemon, Digimon, Star Wars, and of course the heavy hitter that is Power Rangers.’   ‘Oooh I love Power Rangers mommy, especially the pink ranger.’  Oats  added.  ‘Well of course you would like the pink ranger Oats, you are a pink ranger yourself when we play Power Rangers.’  ‘And i’ve been a pink ranger too, mommy.’

‘That you have.’  Mel explained that before Nickelodeon went 24 hours they would close at 7 o clock at night (and later ten when they went digital) and the closedown featured singing cows that would sing a goodnight song that she always found upsetting and scary, but she also mentioned that in June 9th, 2023 Corey and Oats were able to help her get over her fear of that sequence (see ‘Corey and Oats In It’s Not Over To The Cows Sing’).

This was followed by Piff talking about what he had learned about the joys of Fox Kids and its programming, from the heavy hitters/crowd pleasers like Power Rangers, the Marvel animated shows, and Goosebumps to discovering Big Wolf On Campus and other shows, and also discovering the late night programming which included re-runs of Power Rangers as well as showing a number of shows made by DIC including Real Ghostbusters, M.A.S.K,  Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors,  Inspector Gadget and ulysses 11,  all of which had some involvement from the creator of Power Rangers -  Mr Haim Saban.

Which was followed by the gang hopping inside a magical car,  Mel told the gang to buckle up as they all buckled up and the car took off, taking the gang on a magical ride through where they all went to see Mel’s old neighborhood and all its sights.  ‘I bet you loved doing this.’  ‘Especially with my parents, my parents loved playing this game with me on our car rides.’  ‘Ooh yeah I can see why you enjoy this so much.’  Piff added.

The car took them all the way to Camberley,  which was one of Mel’s favorite places to go when she lived in England,  she would always go shopping with James.  The first thing they did was get out of the magical car and explore the area, they walked down the highstreet and saw The Entertainer and WHSsmith.  The gang went on a fun shopping spree, this was followed by the gang going to Argos and getting to look at the catalogues.

Which was followed by a trip to Electronics Boutique, and a special stop at the Body Shop where Piff bought Tangie some bath bombs and some fish themed perfumes, Peanut had never seen so many shops and he loved going on the tour with the gang.  They hopped in the car and headed off on another location, the next location they all drove off to was Woking, as they all went down the helter skelter  carpark slide.

They all entered the mall and hopped on the elevator, looking down from the elevator Piff could see everyone and everything,  he waved to everyone as well,  which was followed by the gang jumping out of the elevator and arriving at Toys R Us,  which was the ultimate destination for toy lovers like Mel.  They all entered Toys R Us and were impressed with what they saw, so many aisles filled with possibilities for things to look at,  including lots of action figures.

Which was followed by a trip to the Hobbycraft gift shop and finding some cool items, which was followed by having lunch at the Cote Woking cafe and going to Spencer’s Gifts, where Mel showed them the Shrek and Austin Powers figures, she explained that it was not uncommon for movies that weren’t ‘family friendly’ to get toys or sometimes a cartoon series, such as Rambo, Robocop, Beetlejuice, Toxic Avenger to name a few.  She also told them about how big the Austin Powers movies were when they came out, especially the 2nd movie.  

Piff noticed a figure of the character ‘Fat Bastard’ (an overweight Scottish character) and noticed that on the packaging it said ‘Fat Man’ instead of ‘Fat Bastard’,  he remembered that Mel had told him that it was a censorship issue and that the company had to try and make the figures safe for families hence the change on the packaging.  ‘Roger Ebert famously said that he could not even say the character’s name so he called him Obese Illegitimate Child’.

Oats covered his eyes as he looked around at the adult section of the store but Piff broke out into fits of laughter….’What’s so funny about this section?’  ‘Do you really want to know why I think it’s so funny?  It’s a secret.’  ‘Oh you and your secrets, Piff.’

The gang then flew out of the mall and hopped into the magical car, this time going on another fun ride -  this time the car took them all over to the location of Druscilla’s Park. The first thing they did upon arriving was decided to stay over in a hotel, specifically the Alfristion Hotel and they all found a nice room to stay in.

They got to look at the beautiful scenery and they all even got to go swimming in the pool, as Piff and Peanut bonded, which was followed by them having afternoon tea at one of the many restaurants and playing games together,  which they all enjoyed.

The next thing they did was they hopped inside the magical car which took them on another little adventure, taking them to a toy fair where they all saw all sorts of toys being presented and shown, all before the car took off and flew through another portal,  this time taking them all the way to New Zealand,  arriving at Mel’s old home in 28 Rosemary Avenue, Forest Hill.

Piff loved this part especially because he never had been able to see Rosemary Avenue with the gang during the final few months of Jill living there and Aiyido rarely ever got to see the place due to back when Jill would always pick the gang up, he’d be asked to guard the Nile Road house,  and now he didn’t have to guard the house since he went with the gang on adventures and even to their Takapuna home during Christmas and New Year,  so he gave the job to Anglo the anglerfish.

Mel shared some heartfelt stories about her late father James, followed by the gang heading towards an exit portal and jumping through it before arriving in Nile Road, when they arrived in Nile Road they gathered together and got ready for dinner.  Piff made a delicious Japanese meal for the gang to eat and after dinner Mel emailed Jill about their adventure and Piff, Tangie, Schnapsie and Hangyodon all went fishing with Peanut and caught a lot of fish.

Followed by a game session and a relaxation session where they did their favorite activities like bathbomb sniffing, imagination sessions, ASMR, fish themed arts and crafts and ‘Guess the Bathbomb Scent’, as Corey put on his bat pajamas and Oats put on his princess nightgown as they all brushed their teeth.

Piff activated the closedown sequence featuring the animated fish couple, Hangyodon and a pufferfish resembling Peanut exploring a lovely cozy playroom and sleepover room as the background color pallet shifted from day to night and a goodnight message appeared on screen.

He floated into bed and hugged Hangyodon, Peanut and Schnapsie before kissing Tangie and giving the goodnight message which was:  ‘We went on a special nostalgic adventure today which was fun for me and Peanut as well and now it is time for us to go to bed, goodnight everyone.’

Anglo turned off the light as they all drifted off to sleep and had sweet dreams including Piff, Hangyodon and Peanut, and thus their adventure had come to an end, but more are coming up, so stay tuned.

e went on a special nostalgic adventure today which was fun for me and Peanut as well and now it is time for us to go to bed, goodnight everyone.’

Anglo turned off the light as they all drifted off to sleep and had sweet dreams including Piff, Hangyodon and Peanut, and thus their adventure had come to an end, but more are coming up, so stay tuned.