Ronnie was seated in the armchair gazing distractedly at the television at the same time as he was picking a particularly problematic hoof. The news was just finishing and Ronnie was looking forward to 'Pig's hour', a highly entertaining show which featured...
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Ronnie was seated in the armchair gazing distractedly at the television at the same time as he was picking a particularly problematic hoof. The news was just finishing and Ronnie was looking forward to 'Pig's hour', a highly entertaining show which featured 'Shropshire Olly' and his bunch of off-the-wall friends. Ronnie was anticipating some excellent fare as Shropshire Olly hatched his plot to incriminate Esther the cow in the theft of Julius the Goat's winter berry cache. A cache of wild berries that Shropshire Olly and co had themselves stolen and wolfed down near the end of the last episode. Ronnie had laughed so hard during that episode that the old bat in the flat next door had banged on the adjoining wall and told him in no uncertain terms to “keep the bloody noise down” and to “not keep on like a hyena on laughing gas”. Ronnie snorted in derision at the thought; just because her good times had ended about thirty five years ago it didn't mean everybody else had to wander around
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