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Arthur entered The Baaamy Inn followed by a gust of icy air, “blimey it’s cold today, the pond on the green’s frozen solid, I remember when we were kids we used to slide around on it but today they are not allowed to have fun like we used to; I saw young Tommy crouched at the edge tapping the ice with a stone, I asked what he was doing and said he was making a hole so the fish could breath!”
Over at the knitting circle, Natalie’s fellow knitwits were intrigued by what she was making; “it’s a wooly string vest for my husband”, she said, “when I told him about it he asked if I could make him a fishing net, I said I wouldn’t know how to and he said, ‘easy, you just stitch a load of holes together’!”
I treated myself to some fish and chips from The Happy Plaice t’other day”, said Babs, “they used to wrap your meal in newspaper, ‘today’s news is tomorrows fish and chip paper,’ they used to say; I remember hearing about a guy who saw an article in his wrapper about an unclaimed Lotto prize worth a fortune and suddenly realised it was his, well, the next day an ex-girlfriend of his saw a picture of him in her chippie wrapper and he was holding a huge cheque – now they are a happy wealthy couple!
On the other side of the village is The Fish Inn, you may recall me telling you about Geoff who likes a sneaky drink, so when his wife asks where he’s going he grabs his rod and tackle and says ‘fishin’, anyway, despite being in competition with one another, Landlord Len and Publican Pete are quite good friends and now again they have an ‘eat-each-other’s’ night when they swap chefs for the evening; tomorrow the Baaarmies will be enjoying Pete’s fabulous fish pie, and the Fishers, Len’s luscious lamb hotpot!
Colin was wound up and ready to go, “fish keep their money in a river bank”, he said, “a fish blushed because it saw the pond’s bottom – long time no sea, said one dried fish to the other dried fish – sturgeons work in fish hospitals – a squashed crab is a crushedacean – a greedy cab is shellfish – a fish with no eyes is a fsh – fishes are clever because they swim in schools – goldfishes have holidays around the globe – dam said the fish when it swam into a wall – a fishes favourite movie is The Codfather…….”
Several years ago when Len’s dear Maggie had but a few weeks of her precious life remaining, they bought a pair of koi carps for the pub’s pond, the larger one they called Loi, and the smaller one Moi; often when Len wanders over to look at them, Moi suddenly hides behind a lily leaf; “why do you do that?” he once asked, “because I’m a little coy”, he heard Maggie say! 
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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting Six Sentence Stories
Good one Keith
Thanks so much, Di.
Knitwits! Never get old! 😂
Never! Age is but a number
I like the idea of swapping chefs every now and then.
I wish I’d thought of that when I had a pub!
on a scale of one to fin… (yeah, best I leave the puns to the the professionals) good Six
speaking of professionals and this Six, back when I was longevitied, I worked as a commercial fisherman and Natalie’s husbands comment about fishing nets, “he said, ‘easy, you just stitch a load of holes together’!”,/em> is not as far from the truth as one might think.
I remember thinking, how is that a knot on one corner of a parallelogram require a different knot (or, at least, the physical motions involved in tying them) for one end over the other… but then I was a young fisherman and probably more gull-able than I am know…
A scale of one to fin – why didn’t Colin think of that?
That’s an intresting question, I bet it had you fishing for answers!
It’s another great time at the Baaamy. I’m sure there’s plenty of business to go around so no need to be jealous. Swapping chefs, I hope everyone enjoys the evening.
There certainly is! I’m told they had a great time.
All those lovely fish… and chips!
Thanks for reminding me – it’s Friday, traditionally fish and chips day!
A lovely story of fishes and friends.
Thanks so much, Sadje!
You’re most welcome
😂😂😂😂
Enjoyed!!
I’m pleased and so will they be!
love this and as a michigander, where there are many ice fisherman I’m sure you could make a joke about why people are fishing for ice? just open your freezer.
He went fishing for fresh ice, but everything he caught was frozen.
❤️🥶
Colin was on a tear today! hehehe
That’s Colin for you!
Your first sentence was my very favorite–you made me laugh!
I’m pleased! Thanks so much.
Your welcome.