Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Country Life Addendum.

The location for Saturday’s Jazz and Barbecue Evening has been changed due to the sodden state of the Old Rectory garden. (‘It takes three days without rain for the land to dry out,’ said Mrs farmer. Saturday is only three days away, and there’s plenty more rain in the forecast.)

So now it’s to be held at the village hall. Personally, I doubt the village hall will be big enough, but we’ll see.

‘They’ve got two barrels of beer ordered,’ said Mrs farmer’s daughter’s husband.

‘Only two?!’ I exclaimed.

‘Aye. They only had one last year and they ran out.’

Well they would, wouldn’t they? And what a dreadful prospect that would be. What else does a vegetarian do at a Jazz and Barbecue Evening but drink beer?

The maid’s gone all cranky and the cook’s acting queer
What a terrible place is a pub with no beer
~ Old Australian folk song.

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