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    Jackie Potatoes
    Jackie Potatoes
    Jackie Potatoes
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    Jackie Potatoes

    By Steve Moran

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    Jackie lives with her parents above the baked-potato restaurant they run, which is why she has the nickname, "Jackie Potatoes." Her friends like to meet up in her kitchen where they chat, bake cakes, and help with the washing up. Life is perfect until the day the letters start arriving....
    Multi-national organisations and government agencies all seem determined to destroy the peaceful way of life that Jackie and her parents and friends have built up around the restaurant. It's a mystery why this quiet village should be the focus of so much attention from greedy and powerful businesses. No-one seems to be able to stop them, until Jackie starts to have some amazing ideas....
    This is a story about a group of friends who struggle against enormous odds to save the restaurant and village they love from certain destruction. And who is their leader, their guide and their inspiration? Why, Jackie Potatoes, of course!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Moran
    Release dateJun 14, 2015
    ISBN9781310707551
    Jackie Potatoes
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    Steve Moran

    I've had many careers in my life; I've been a baker, a teacher, a scientist, a musician, a cleaner, an actor and...well, lots of things! But the one thing that I enjoy above everything is - being an author! But that doesn't really convey the deep down pleasure it gives me to create characters, situations, towns, cities, even whole worlds! If you've ever wondered what it would be like to play at being God and shape human lives just the way you want to, well, the advice I would give you is - become an author!Plunge into your thoughts, feelings, memories and imagination and create something nobody else has ever created before - and then do it as well as you can! It's true that I write for my own satisfaction, but if I'm hoping that someone is going to read my work - and ideally pay good money for it! - then I've got to make it as good as I can!So welcome to my world! I write books for children (including those of any age who are still children at heart!) and I usually like to include something magical in my stories. Magic has a very special appeal for me, not least because it seems like magic to me when a story appears in my head! That's when I most feel like a magician!I write as well as I can with you in mind. I hope you enjoy my world as much as I do!

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      Jackie Potatoes - Steve Moran

      Jackie Potatoes

      by

      Steve Moran

      Copyright 2015 Steve Moran

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Contents

      Chapter 1 The Letter Arrives

      Chapter 2 It’s Called Little Hampster

      Chapter 3 We Only Need One Good Idea

      Chapter 4 Mrs. Barrington-Smythe to the Rescue

      Chapter 5 Motorway Madness

      Chapter 6 What Do You Have to Say?

      Chapter 7 Park and Climb

      Chapter 8 Persuading the Board

      Chapter 9 Double Trouble

      Chapter 10 Roman Ruins

      Chapter 11 My Grandad is Coming!

      Chapter 12 The Mixer Mixed

      Chapter 13 Sticky Stuff

      Chapter 14 You’ve Got Nothing to Lose by Asking

      Other Books by Steve Moran

      About the Author

      Chapter 1 The Letter Arrives

      Jackie Potatoes, Jackie Potatoes, Jackie, Jackie, Jackie Potatoes.

      Please stop singing, Emily, I can’t think.

      Jackie Potatoes, Jackie Potatoes, Jackie, Jackie, Jackie Potatoes.

      Do you want these cakes to burn?

      Oh no, Jackie, I don’t. I’ll be quiet.

      Good girl.

      Emily loved cake, and she loved Jackie’s cakes most of all. She scraped her finger around the inside edge of the empty mixing bowl, put it in her mouth, and slowly licked it clean. Jackie carefully peeped inside the oven.

      They’re ready, she said at last, and opened the oven door. She took out a tray of hot blueberry muffins and carefully placed them on the table. Wait for them to cool, and then you can try one.

      Emily stared at the muffins, willing them to cool down as quickly as possible. After a few minutes she looked at Jackie. Jackie nodded.

      Remember, the best ones are for sale. We can only have the broken ones. Here. They taste just as good. Jackie picked up two muffins with cracks in them, and put them on two plates. She kept one for herself, and gave one to Emily. Emily giggled, and looked fondly at Jackie.

      You make the bestest muffins ever, she said, rubbing her hands with glee. Jackie smiled. She loved to watch Emily eat.

      Now that, said Emily, as she licked her fingers, is what I call good. Thank you, Jackie Potatoes.

      *

      Jackie and Emily were in Jackie’s Corner, which was the meeting place for Jackie and her friends. The rest of the kitchen – which was the greater part of it – was given over to the production of jacket potatoes for the restaurant on the other side of the door. Morning, noon and night, seven days a week, Jackie’s parents, Gus and Laura, and their staff, prepared the sauces and fillings which had made the baked potato restaurant such a success. Not as successful as Gastro-Spud, of course, but that was a national chain. Here in Gus’s restaurant, quality was more important than quantity, and every member of the staff knew it.

      *

      It’s busy today, mumbled Emily, through a mouthful of muffin.

      Saturday’s always busy, said Jackie. It’s market day in the village. People come from miles around.

      It certainly looks like it, said Emily, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. The potatoes are flying out of that door. She meant the swing door leading out into the restaurant, through which the waiters came and went. I love watching it, she added, I can’t believe they don’t crash into each other.

      They will one day, said Jackie, and I hope I’m here to see it!

      They giggled at the idea.

      Are you two ready? Jackie’s dad called from the other side of the kitchen.

      Yes, Mr. King, called Emily.

      Yes, dad, called Jackie.

      Then it’s time for action, he said.

      The girls jumped up from their chairs, and ran over to the washing up area.

      Suddenly, the door from the street flew open.

      Post! Anyone want the post! Mmmm, I do love the smell in here! It was Harry the postman, delivering the restaurant’s letters directly to the kitchen. He always hoped that if took them there he might get a treat.

      Jackie, take the post and put it on my desk. And give Harry a biscuit. How’s it going, Harry? Gus and Harry were old friends.

      Not bad. At least it’s not raining. Thanks, Jackie love. Here are the letters. This one looks important. He handed her a large, official-looking envelope. See you Gus. Goodbye all. Harry went out, chewing happily. Jackie put the letters on her father’s desk.

      Can you two do the drying-up? asked Gus. We’re running out of plates.

      Yeah, course we can, dad, said Jackie. Can’t we, Emily?

      Yes, Jackie Potatoes, we can. And I’ll do most of them because I’m faster than you! said Emily.

      No you’re not! said Jackie.

      Yes I am, said Emily. Let’s race!

      Now don’t you break anything, said Gus.

      We won’t, said the girls, smiling, and reaching for the tea-towels.

      *

      The King Edwards was a jacket potato restaurant. Jackie’s parents, Gus King and Laura Edwards, had bought a run-down fish and chip shop, and turned it into the social centre of the village of Little Hampster. Starting with take-away jacket potatoes, they had added a coffee bar, then a mini-supermarket, then a full-blown sit-down restaurant, and then an outside play area with picnic tables. It was not unusual for a family to spend a whole Saturday there – shopping, eating, playing and meeting other families. The success of the business, however, was built on one thing – the sheer quality of the baked potato fillings. Gus was a creative chef, and he had traveled all over the world before settling down in Little Hampster, collecting recipes from far away places as well as creating his own. When he fell in love with Laura – with her business brain and organizing skills – they made the perfect team to run a restaurant. Spotting a gap in the market,

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