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ales from the Ex-Maritime Romney rodent!
Letter from the Romney Hut
Hello everybody,
30th October 2009
Invasion
I have heard with alarm, that Uncle Corrour, Aunt Esmeralda and Horace, our resident rodents at Birkhill, are up in arms against the rumour that Birkhill is to be invaded by tanks. We understand that according to the information at hand, is they are to be big tanks. They are so incensed about the situation that they have formed an action group, Birkhill Rodents Against Tanks, to be known as BRATS. All efforts will be focussed on preventing these tanks from arriving at the oasis of peace of Birkhill.
Twinkle toes is improving.
Head of Toffee (Trading Operational Financial Failure Evaluation Executive ) Is going about spreading the word that our Senior Director of the Logs Emporium, is on the mend. We would like to extend our best wishes to Twinkle Toes and express our heart felt relief, that at least we may look forward to having some peace from HEAD OF TOFFEE. There is of course a downside for us Rodents now that Peter has returned, there being little or no food left lying about the bothy. You must understand Peter suffers from a rare disease, Keep The Bothy Clean Syndrome, for which there is no known cure.
Flashing Lights
Us leading rodents had a meeting to discuss the habits of of other species, one might call it a seminar. During the seminar there was a discussion on the reason why some people have flashing yellow lights on their vehicles. One bright member of the Rodent family said, that the flashing yellow light was to show that they were impotent. All present went silent but nobody argued, so when you see a vehicle at the side of the road, or anywhere for that matter, with flashing yellow light, spare a thought for the poor fellows.
A Step Up
A long time ago Alisdhair our resident Heilander set out to replace an access step on the gangway end of 9237. A night raid on the RCB bothy coach managed to salvage one step of the correct pattern. Once this had been achieved, Alisdhair gave the step to our leading paraffin bath and metal reclamation operative to refurbish. In the meantime someone else unbeknown to our friends, found, located and fitted another spare step to the coach in question, thus reducing the urgency for the aforementioned Step. Nonetheless Mr David Thornton, did present the refurbished step to Alisdhair. Is that no nice of him. We now have a pristine spare.
Alarm
There has been profound concern that the secret tea makers have been at work in the Romney Hut Bothy. The alarm tap on the bothy sink, which was fitted with a built in noise facility, was rendered defective by Alex King and replaced with a non alarm type by Ol Da. Now no one knows when the kettle is being filled, except the perpetrators. Ah, there is mischief in the wind.
Congratulations
Congratulations are due to Mr Tony Dance in being passed out as a Steam Locomotive Driver.
Bye for now,
Shaper Mouse
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