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It had been a busy Easter weekend at The Baaamy Inn, especially Saturday when Landlord Len laid on his annual events including the Beer Relay Race when three teams of three run around the pub, passing on a tankard of ale; this year it was the Knitwits, the Baaamy Staff and The Farmers that took part, the latter knew they didn’t stand a chance of coming in first so they just trotted around drinking a third of a pint each – as Arthur said, ‘it’s not the winning that counts, it’s the drinking part!’
As usual Suzie from the next table dressed up in her bunny rabbit costume and watched over the children’s Easter egg hunt, they still talk about the time Len thought his dearly departed Maggie had hidden the chockie eggs and she thought he had, in the end each kid was given one – there was also an egg and spoon race, joker Colin thought it would be funny to attach his egg with some sticky stuff, but it all went wrong when he stumbled and landed with egg on his face, literally!
The ladies of the knitting circle were reminiscing about the Easter Bonnet competition that Maggie used to hold , “I can still see you wearing those rabbit ears you knitted, Natilie”, said Polly, “and you Millie, your hat festooned with flowers, and as for farmer Bab’s over there, she once made one from straw that resembled a birds nest and she plonked a road-killed pheasant on top – it must have been dead for ages because it stank the pub out!”
Ted thought he’d relay he story of what happened to him on Saturday, “for some reason I woke up at four in the morning, I noticed it was the fourth day of the fourth month, later when I went shopping a number four bus came past and after I’d visited four shops I had a coffee that cost four pounds and I thought to myself ‘perhaps four is today’s jucky number’ so decided to go to the bookies and bet four pounds on the fourth horse in the forth race”; “did you win?” asked Babs, “no, it came fourth”, he replied.
Colin could hardly wait to get going, “relay runners, you’ve got to hand it to them – the relay race was close, for a while it was touch and go – a barber won a race because he knew a short cut – two vampires had a race and finished neck to neck – the Easter bunny met a rabbit of his dreams and they lived hoppily ever after – one broke a leg, he was a hoppless romantic – a jockey broke a leg, I asked him how he was getting on – you make Easter easier by un-crossing the T and dotting it instead – the Easter Bunny joined the Olympics because he heard first place gets 24 carrots – to race a horse or not to race a horse, that is equestrian – a guy had two race horses called One-one and Two-two, One-one won a race and 22112 – horse manure is excellent for strawberries, but I still prefer whipped cream……..!
Tomorrow, gardener Gary will be coming to get the outside area ready for summer and Len was writing a list of things he needed doing like planting petunias, giving the lawn it’s first trim and repainting the benches; as he did so he sensed his dearly departed Maggie was looking over his shoulder – ‘he needs to relay the paving slabs’, she whispered in his ear, ‘even I managed to trip up just now!
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.Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting Six Sentence Stories where this week’s given word is Relay
Easter at the Baaamy! I couldn’t have celebrated it anywhere else!
Me neither!
Oh my god the number four one. That’s my favourite this time hands down. 😆
How fourtunate! Thanks, Reelika
Lots of fun at Easter.
Thanks Sadlje, fun is always guaranteed at The Baaamy!
You’re most welcome
“It was touch and go…and I came in forth..”. Ahahaha…Most delightful reading, Keith.Thank you.
Delighted to have amused you, Suzette!
Most excellent!
Another lovely post Keith.
I’m pleased you like it, Di, thank you.
It’s Len and Maggie I think that have me hooked., though your other characters are fun.
Great ones from Colin and an interesting observation: “you make Easter easier by un-crossing the T and dotting it instead”
Thanks, Frank, I wasn’t sure anyone would get that!
I’m glad they had a good Easter and hope you did, too.
Fun all round, thanks Mimi!
Colin’s next pint is on me! All enjoyable per usual, Keith, but #5 really hit the funny bone.
Thanks so much, Denise. I’ll let Colin know, he’ll be delighted!
I loved the roadkill pheasant in the easter bonnet nest
Best viewed from a distance! Thanks, Beth.
Aww, lovely! Easter Eggs (yum).
Nothing quite like them!