zhounder opened this issue on Apr 03, 2005 ยท 35 posts
Onslow posted Mon, 04 April 2005 at 4:21 AM
Seeing Tedz original POV for his mode of transport reminds me of why I cannot show a larger picture of mine. A couple of weeks ago I was on my way to see a rather posh relative. Making good headway down the country road between Oxford and Cheltenham at a little more than the legal speed limit on a fine sunny day, the road crosses the Cotswold hills through some stunning countryside . Passing a copse of trees a pheasant wandered into the road to watch my progress., much too late to brake or serve. Thump and a cloud of feathers ! I didnt stop there seemed no point . I passed through the lovely market town of Cheltenham on a Saturday morning crowded with shoppers and maybe it was my imagination but people were looking at my car in a curious way. I arrived at the said relative and decided to look at the front of my car to see if there was much damage. My car had a new emblem - that of the pheasants arse. It was sticking out of the front grill! I gave it a tentative kick and a headless body dropped out onto the drive. Struck with disbelieve I wondered what to do standing on the driveway of this huge house in a very genteel neighbourhood. I looked round for some bushes or something, but these people have big driveways of antique cobbles all nicely swept and maintained. I panicked and kicked the headless body under the car and carried on with my visit. All the way home that evening I couldnt help but hope that some cat or fox had come and retrieved the body or my relatives are going to think they have been visited by Satanists in the night who have left a headless bird outside their front door. :o
And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies
live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to
sea in a Sieve.
Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html