TRUFFLE HUNTING

Once the Truffle Prospectors had arrived at Boothland Woods, Wilson looked round, inspected the ground for a moment and declared that the very place where they were standing was a ‘prime spot’ for Truffles.

Lifting Dave out of the bucket, he placed him on the ground and instructed him to ‘get sniffing!’

Poor Dave shuffled around disconsolately for a few minutes before saying, ‘I don’t think this is a very truffly spot after all. Can we go home now?’

Wilson is not a quitter – at least, not when there’s money to be made – so he turned to Nërp and said, ‘Okay, it’s time for Plan B – turn on your Olfactory Tech and we’ll make a start!’

Nërp at first pretended not to have heard, but once that gambit became clearly untenable he confessed that, due to an oversight at the factory, his Olfactory Analysis Module had not been installed.

On hearing this, W came very close to losing his temper, pointing out to Nërp that this was only the latest of a long series of non-installed modules.

‘Well excuse me for not being C3-PO or HAL5000… or Johnny-5... or perhaps you’d have preferred Wall-E?’ Nërp replied, huffily.

He certainly seems to have had his Brooding, Overthinking and Sulking Modules installed!

When everyone got home, they were all in a bit of a bad mood. Wilson grumbled that he will have to start a Truffle Farm, due to the difficulty of locating and harvesting Wild Truffles.

He stomped off to Google ‘Truffle Seeds’ while Nërp and Dave stood in silence, staring at the ground uncomfortably…