A fairy tale for you all today. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

Once upon a time there was a huge country, rich in musicians and festivals, with plenty of music and places to sit outside and enjoying the sunshine. In fact, it's the near the end of Summer at the start of our story, children, and the people of this country had all been enjoying listening to their favorite music in the sunshine all summer long, and they had danced and frolicked and some had even taken some sweeties which helped them dance and frolick all through day and all through the night. And even when the people weren't dancing to music, they would talk of which music they would listen to and which field they would like to go to next, such was their love of all things musical and festive. Although they were sad that the festival seaon had almost finished, they were happy because it had been a good summer and everyone looked forward to next year.

Everyone except the wicked witch Ibay, that is, who had been annoyed by the people because they had been ignoring her and her horrid friends (who were called 'the touts'). Ibay was a powerful witch, who had the ability to send herself into nearly every house in the country, and she was so cross and so angry that the people that she decided to come up with a plan to make sure that she was never to be ignored again. She would make sure the touts would pick all the festival ticket from the festival trees before the people could get them, and then take all the people's money money in exchange for them. And she didn't even care if the tickets weren't sold, she'd rather that the festival grounds were empty and the music went unheard rather than let the people ignore her ever again.

And so the people hibernated throught he Winter, awaking the following year as Springtime arrived and they looked to their festivals for the summer. Some would listen to their headbanging music, others to their rave music. Even the old and rich people would listen their classical music. And so - as was tradition - they went to the great ticket orchard to get their tickets. But as hard as they tried, lots and lots of the tickets had already been plucked by the touts whilst they were sleeping! And after they had tried and tried and tried to reach the tallest branches to no avail, they became upset becuase they would not be listening to their favorite music in the sunshine all summer long, and they would not be dancing and frolicking and taking their sweeties all through day and all through the night.

At that point, the wicked witch Ibay appeared and said to the sadden multitude that she had all the tickets, and they were locked up in her tower, and she would only sell them to the highest bidder! The people were shocked, and cross - because before when anyone could pluck a ticket, now only the richer of the people could go. And the festivals themselves would only be for the rich people, and the poor people would have to watch the music from afar, which made the people who made the music sad, and the people who made the festivals sad too. But the wicked witch Ibay continued to do this for years and years, and the people would shout and scream, but it would go on and on.

And so, one day the people didn't want to go the the festivals anymore, because it made them so upset. And the touts didn't want to buy the tickets for Ibay anymore, because they had grown fat and lazy from all the money they had made. So the next spring when when the very committed went without much hope to pluck their tickets, they were amazed and shocked to see so many tickets growing on the trees that they could pick and choose which fields they wanted to go to once again. The witch Ibay was being ignored regardless, for most people had forgotten why they had listened to the music in the first place, and they had now found some other distraction, and so Ibay decided to destroy that instead, and the true music lovers were left to enjoy their music once again.

The End.

Well, I did say it was a fairy tale.