ADVENT CALENDAR - DAY 23

The Night of the Radishes (Noche de Los Rábanos) is an annual event taking place on the 23rd of December in the Market Square of Oaxaca, Mexico where artisans make and display beautiful scenes out of carved radishes.  Can we take some radishes of our own and shape them into something surprising?

Find some writing that you did for any purpose other than creative expression.
This could be a shopping list, job application, essay, half-finished letter, financial report etc
Have a read over it and use its words to craft a story. 

The above was today's challenge!

A while ago I translated some documents from Spanish for a friend. By adding the parts in italics I now present you with today's story.

LAND TRANSFER

Part the First. THE VENDORS are the owners of a plot of agricultural land – though we’ve never been able to grow anything worth selling - with an area of approximately 40 hectares – mostly too steep even for goats - who in their turn transfer ownership – with a heart-felt sigh of relief - to THE PURCHASERS -  for whom we thank God on our knees every night. The said land comes with the following neighbours:-

To the North               Alfonso

To the East                Maria

To the West               Jose

To the South              Manuel

and we wish you joy of them. For our part we will be happy never to clap eyes on any of them ever again.

Part the Second. THE VENDORS give for sale the perpetual transfer of ownership – that means they can’t change their minds - to THE PURCHASERS – for whom God be thanked - the ground described in the first clause - 'roughly described' might be more accurate!

Part the Third. This contract – drawn up by my nephew who charged an extortionate fee so he’d better have made it water-tight or there’ll be Hell to pay – to be completed by the payment of the sale price of the property – which these foreigners think is a bargain but is ten times what that robber our neighbour Alfonso offered.

Signed for the VENDORS: Rafael Costa

Signed for the PURCHASERS:  George Sansom

Right – now they’ve got the deeds and we’ve got the cash, the sooner we disappear the better.