Chocs Away!
Things just keep getting spookier in Spooky St. Ives. There I
was skivvying away at the Sloop when I was informed that a parcel for me had
been delivered to reception.
"That's odd," I thunk, "I'm not expecting
anything and why is it addressed to me at the Sloop?".
Fearing the worst I thought I had better open it there as the
Shauns had been a bit worried ever since the anthrax-in-the-post incidents and
would probably subject me to a severe hoofing if I brought a suspect device home
with me.
To my consternation it was neither the anticipated anthrax nor a
boxing glove on a spring but, in fact, it turned out to be a box of posh choccies
disguised as a laptop computer. Sadly the perpetrators of this deed chose to
remain anonymous.
Cheers whoever you are/were/will have been. The Reporting Team
say 'ta muchly' and 'burp'!
Feats Of Clay
The Reporting Team have recently spent substantial chunks of
time up at the Leach Pottery. In a weak moment ceramics svengali, Trevor Corser,
agreed to let Spooky St. Ives in to do a number (probably metaphorically as well
as literally) on the crockery capital of Cornwall.
We are currently struggling to cobble something together for you
(hopefully by the end of next week) but have been hampered by various factors
such as exploding computers, work, domestic commitments and, of course, sheer
incompetence from Vile Jelly.
Fingers/paws/hoofs crossed!
A Change In The Pecking Order
In one of those bizarre coincidences that can only happen in
somewhere as spooky as St. Ives there have been two, almost simultaneous,
developments on the seagull front.
Firstly, Alan Spencer (a.k.a. the Twickenham Seagull) was down
in St. Ives and managed to spot the Reporting Team going about their business.
Cunningly, he followed them and was eventually able to discover from whence the
Spooky St. Ives emissions come. It looked like Vile Jelly was going to be
unmasked until the Twickenham Seagull realised that Jelly was not actually
wearing a mask ..... he really was that ugly. Suitably deterred the Twickenham
Seagull decided to withdraw and hand the problem over to Rentokil!
However, any feeling of triumph that Mr. Spencer may have felt
will no doubt be washed away almost immediately by the announcement in today's
St. Ives Times & Echo:-
"Attempts to solve the seagull problem is [sic] being
stepped up - not against the seagulls but in a campaign directed at
humans."
So, if Vile Jelly has been unmasked it looks like the Twickenham
Seagull may be about to be unbeaked!
Penwith District Council are to put up 70 new metallic signs in
the town trying to warn visitors about swooping seagulls and prevent visitors
from (deliberately or inadvertently) feeding them.
So, if you want to see these signs we suggest that you get down
to St. Ives by Spring or early Summer. Any later than that and the seagulls will
probably have eaten them!
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