Executive Summary:
Our intrepid couple have arrived home after an epic
circumnavigation of The Northern Isles (including Muckle Flugga, no less), to
find their house and house sitters well but with no sign of their much-loved
but deranged hybrid canine “guard dog” (aka “Bonzo.)
Essential background information:
Although, in many respects dog-like, Bonzo is not your
average German Shepherd – Rotweiler cross, lacking (as he does) normal canine
intelligence. Bonzo has however, over the
years, proved to be an effective guard dog and to be absent without leave on our return is most unusual.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile, elsewhere in our county, there are frackers
afoot.
Balcombe:
There appears to be a road-side competition in progress near Balcombe. The competition is to see who can muster the biggest team. The anti-frackers or the police?
Both sides appear to have similar tactics, these involve
gathering on the roadside, talking and parking vehicles. Every few hours a lorry drives out of (or
into) the fracking site and both teams gather in the road to watch it. The protesters team then try to stop the lorry
and the police team try to stop the protesters from stopping the lorry. As far as I can tell, once the lorry has got though, some of the police
team give some of the protesters team a good telling off and in return the
protesters either glue themselves together or shout at the police team. Meanwhile, on sunny days an ice cream van
sells ice cream (obviously) to the protesters. The ice cream van has a sign on
its window “Against Fracking”. It is not
clear whether police officers eat ice cream or whether the van changes its sign
to “In favour of fracking” when selling ice cream to the police.
The Anti-fracking protest
There is also a shop selling souvenirs and a campsite.
Both teams have dogs.
A dog van
Bonzo has a special dog detecting organ in his nose.
Has Bonzo joined the anti-frackers, or is romance in the
air?
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