Grist Vergette’s Curious Clock: The Great Adventure is About to Begin...

Johnny Vergette is repairing an old motorbike in the garage when his mother calls him into the house.

Grist Vergette, his grandfather, passed away a few weeks before, and Johnny’s inheritance has just arrived.
It’s a key. The key to Grist’s old garden shed down on the allotments.

Johnny goes outside where he meets Seri, the German neighbour’s daughter, and the two of them set off
in the sunshine for the allotments.

They discover the shed is not like other sheds. It’s bigger and better built and immaculately maintained.
Inside, they find a myriad of interesting artefacts dating back to World War II.

Medals, plans, model ships, Morse code equipment, photographs, dusty TOP SECRET plans and files,
convoy plotters, old money, vintage engineering magazines, wristwatches, and an old travelling clock
that does not work.

Johnny tosses it disdainfully to one side and continues rooting through his newly acquired treasures.
Clearly, the main purpose of this shed is not gardening, but what is it?

The alarm on the old clock goes off. Seri jumps. The clock folds back in on itself and closes with a slick click.
It begins to pulse, louder and louder: VUM! VUM! VUM! Something very strange is happening.
The great adventure is about to begin…