Thursday, March the 1st, 2007
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There is huge excitement at Bodger's Spinney as we look forward to this weekend's annual Spinney Wreck Competition. Rival teams have been preparing for months, in utmost secrecy, their re-enactments of The Wreck Of The Deutschland and The Wreck Of The Hesperus. As ever when the Jesuits meet the Hiawathas, there is a sense of age-old blood feud, and volunteer ambulance-based medicos wearing special armbands will be on the alert from before daybreak.
Old Farmer Frack's cows will be mooching in a nearby field to add an air of bucolic charm, and Mrs Gubbins will again be wearing the referee's chapeau. In an exclusive pre-contest interview she told our reporter, “I am hoping things pass off with due decorum, but I have made sure we have enough tourniquets on site this year. No one wants to see a repeat of the time we had to send urchins scampering off across the hills to Old Ma Bagshaw's Bandage Shop.”
Mrs Gubbins was made referee-in-perpetuity after she single-handedly sent packing a gang of rogue Opium-Eaters who tried to sabotage the contest with a wholly inappropriate, because shipless, re-enactment of The Household Wreck.
The latest odds are available from the illegal gambling den behind the illegal butcher's shop on the plaza.