Wednesday, 26 February 2014

When Boredom Sets In ….

Boredom is never a good thing chez Castle Greysquirel, particularly as far as Nigel and Darrell’s boredom is concerned ……
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Take yesterday for example ….. when Nigel bet Darrell that he could eat a mahooooooosive jelly snake in under five minutes ……
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…… a non-nasty Bush Tucker Trial if you will!
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Well, naturally Darrell just couldn’t resist, and at the agreed time started his stopwatch, timing Nigel’s self appointed challenge.
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At around the halfway mark Nigel seemed to be struggling …… but then got a second wind ……….. only to flag again in the closing seconds, the snakes nose appeared to be a nose too far for Nigel …….
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…… especially as Darrell began counting down the final 10 seconds very, very loudly …… as if goading Nigel to defeat …..
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……however, Nigel was indeed triumphant with just three seconds to go …..
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……… although rendered totally incapable of leaping joyously in his victory!
I despair ……. I just despair ….. what are they like??????

3 comments:

Mr.D said...

"The snakes nose appeared to be a nose too far for Nigel." A bridge of the nose too far?
That is a huge snake for such a small monkey.

Anonymous said...

My, oh, my........a snake eating challenge......fertile minds like Darrell and Nigel's are never at a loss for amusement!.....I never doubted he could do it and Bagpuss obviously offered support!.....it does look tasty......Dianne

marc said...

what a wondrous thing to see what a sight it will stick in my mind for a long time i once saw a drawing of a elephant being swallowed by a boa constrictor in a book called Le Petit Prince by the author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry but never seen a little monkey swallow a giant snake big love marc