Tuesday 7 December 2021

The First Casualty Of The Festive Season

Poor Nigel came home from town this morning in a slightly traumatised type nature ……..

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……. he’d spotted a helium Santa balloon that had got stuck in the top of one of the trees along his route …….

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………  and it was the fact that he could also see that there was a letter attached to said Santa balloon that upset Nigel so much.

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It had obviously been sent by a small, wide eyed child, certain that it would be afforded safe passage to “the Real Santa” at the North Pole ……. never expecting that it would instead met a sad and early demise in a tree in Evesham.

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It was up far too high and tangled for Nigel to ever dream of rescuing it. He was heart broken ……… I have told the little fella not to worry, it can’t be the first time such a thing has happened and I am sure Santa has a crack team of helpers who are sent out to collect or at least read and make notes of the contents of such erstwhile, festive mishaps and no, I didn’t think it would wise to call out the fire brigade to rescue it, no matter how good his intentions.

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Nigel says he really can’t bear to see it, thinking of all the lost hopes and dreams it may contain, despite all my assurances  and as such will be taking a new route into town and back for the next little while. What am I going to do with him?

2 comments:

Mr.D said...

Oh dear, never mind, Nigel. Santa has a magic key, so, I'm sure that he has other magic ways to read undelivered letters. Nothing to worry about, in this case, Nigel.

Anonymous said...

Oh dear my heart skipped a beat too young Nige....upsetting to see. I'm sure the story will end happily. JantheFan x