One of the other bloggers tells me there's a giant talking broccoli that lives in a hollow among the roots of a giant oak tree somewhere in the Necklace Park "passing its day making life difficult for people as they stroll along the Necklace Path. Only the daughter of a wizard can break the curse by finding the tree, burrowing into its roots and slicing the broccoli into thousands of florets using a fillet knife found in the sand at Margate. She then needs to steam the broccoli gently and serve it up as school dinner at a village school in Esh Winning. Ideally this should be done on **/**/2007 or everyone in Durham will turn into pumpkins".

I don't know how much of this is accurate, because I have also heard other versions: that the giant broccoli was encountered centuries ago by a young monk named Dunstan who was out collecting wild garlic; that the beach in question is at Seaham rather than Margate; that there's no broccoli, but green 'vitamin men and women' dressed as spinach and kale who run around providing nutrition to people. In addition, there was something about a dog. Maybe someone else knows that part of the story.