Grandpa and Phoebe’s Amazing Adventures: The Lost Golf Ball Triplets

By Neil Kelly

This is an adventure story about a young girl, Phoebe Shortshanks, and her very unusual grandparents.
Join Phoebe as she works with Grandpa and some of his amazing, but sometimes disastrous, magical inventions on a journey of discovery and friendship.
Who can believe that animals can talk and be so organised that they can help a lost golf ball to be reunited with her lost brothers?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Dec 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781398423596

Neil Kelly

A business consultant in his real life, Neil recounts his childhood memories of his parents and grandparents – through the use of characters who represent many of his friend’s children that have now also become friends with children of their own. He places great value on all family and friends and the joy of being a grandparent and parent.

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Grandpa and Phoebe’s

Amazing Adventures

The Lost Golf Ball Triplets

Neil Kelly

Austin Macauley Publishers

Grandpa and Phoebe’s Amazing Adventures

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgement

Grandpa and Phoebe’s Amazing Adventures: Synopsis

Chapter 1: Aged 8 and 2/3rds Going on 40!

Chapter 2: Interesting Times at Grandpa’s and Grandma’s

Chapter 3: The Magic of the Golf Course

Chapter 4: I Can’t Find My Ball Anywhere. Where Do They All Go?

Chapter 5: The Shrinkability Cupboard

Chapter 6: The Great Bouncing Adventures of the Lost Balls

Chapter 7: The Mission

Chapter 8: Grandpa’s Minor Modifications

Chapter 9: Grandma’s Round of Golf

Chapter 10: A Golfing Holiday

Chapter 11: Reconnaissance

Chapter 12: The Rescue

Chapter 13: Grandpa’s Birthday Round

Chapter 14: The Wanderer Returns

Epilogue

About the Author

A business consultant in his real life, Neil recounts his childhood memories of his parents and grandparents – through the use of characters who represent many of his friend’s children that have now also become friends with children of their own. He places great value on all family and friends and the joy of being a grandparent and parent.

Dedication

To all my friends and family, who have shared a lifetime full of fun and friendship.

Copyright Information ©

Neil Kelly 2021

The right of Neil Kelly to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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ISBN 9781398423589 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781398423596 (ePub e-book)

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First Published 2021

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Acknowledgement

A special thanks to my wife, Sharon, who shared the adventure from the initial finding of a lost golf ball whilst out walking in Spain. My sister-in-law, Christine, who provided her constructive editing skills and, Liam, who listened to my ideas and ramblings over several weeks of walks in the Cheshire countryside.

Grandpa and Phoebe’s

Amazing Adventures

Synopsis

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The lost golf triplets

This is an adventure story about a young girl, Phoebe Shortshanks, and her very unusual grandparents.

Join Phoebe as she works with Grandpa on some of his amazing, but sometimes disastrous, magical inventions on a journey of discovery and friendship.

Who can believe that animals can talk and be so organised as to help a lost golf ball be reunited with her lost brothers?

Phoebe, along with her animal friends organises a daring rescue to release a lost and lonely golf ball, Putty, from the evil driving range.

To do this, they will have to rely on Grandpa’s magical inventions and the determination of Phoebe and all her animal friends.

From Lymm to La Manga the excitement is gripping.

Chapter 1

Aged 8 and 2/3rds

Going on 40!

Grandpa will you take me with you to play golf please, pretty please? begged Phoebe.

Phoebe loved her grandparents, Grandpa and Grandma Shortshanks, and always looked forward to her weekends when she got to stay at the crooked house, with the crooked shed and twisted people. Well that was always what Mummy called her grandparents’ house. And keep out of that dreadful crooked dirty old shed, it’s dangerous, said Mummy Brodrick Shortshanks, who had refused to fully adopt her husband’s name as Shortshanks had a dreadful ring to it.

Saturday was ‘’BIG SHOP DAY’ and it was important, said Mummy, that someone who is clumsy and always runs everywhere before bumping into something, falling over and shouting ow!!" is kept well away from the supermarkets to avoid a national disaster especially after your last visit!

Phoebe really didn’t mind as she found shopping boring unless you could take your saxophone and give it a long loud blast behind some poor unsuspecting shopper who then dropped a large bottle of gravy browning all over the floor, creating the most disgusting mess that caused an enormous lady to deliberately slip over and shout where’s there’s blame there’s a claim and then a small boy to attempt to slide through the gravy on one leg before landing headfirst in between the chocolates and the biscuits. Surely the shelves should have been able to withstand the impact of a four-year-old boy, said Daddy Shortshanks as he protested Phoebe’s innocence to the gathering crowd of onlookers, store detectives, and first aiders, who continued to spread the gravy browning into aisles 6, 7and 8, making the entire area look like a scene from the decapitation of Henry the eighth, or was it one of his wives?

If you are going to speak to us in that tone of voice we shall take our custom elsewhere, said Daddy to the extremely angry store manager, who looked like his red face was about to burst, Phoebe is a very talented saxophone player and her playing has nothing to do with the careless actions and poor layout of your store which caused this dreadful mess, protested Daddy grabbing Phoebe’s arm, and along with Mummy, made a sharp exit abandoning the big shop trolley in the big hole, that had been created by the small boy, between aisles 5 and 6, as he crashed through the chocolates and biscuits. It was amazing how a full bar of chocolate had landed in his mouth!

As Phoebe left the store being dragged through the door by Daddy firmly holding on to her left hand, and tightly holding onto her saxophone in her right, she looked back to survey the carnage left behind. She was particularly impressed with the swirling brown patterns the shopping trolley had created, but perhaps even more impressive was the speed at which Mummy had got into the car and was revving