St Patrick in the Solomon islands! Starring Donal Ryan as st Patrick, Monty the python as the snake, two burley workers as the frightened ladies, and Erin chickenivch as the heroin chicken. Today here on loga it was decreed we should knock the old chicken shed as it was unsafe. So 2 burley workers and me the unburley Donal started tearing it down. Work was brisk by Solomon standards, until a scream arose. I thought a little girl had become lodged in the crumbling shed. No it was a tough worker screaming and running!! So being brave I ran too. Whats wrong I asked? It recovered enough to say snake!!! So feeling the Irish pride of st Patrick, even though Im not Welsh or a saint I went to have a look. Ill drive it out. So gingerly no pun on the Irish intended, I crept in. There wrapped on perch was a baby python 30cms or for the elderly and David Oliver a foot long. I picked up the child snake and bravely put the child out in the trees, risking being covered in baby python poo. After a rousing verse of hail glorious St Patrick we resumed work, well I hummed and they smoked, but it was heartfelt smoking. Back they went trying to be more manly, but it was fun shouting snake every now and again. They sure can move in flip flops!! But all was not well in the chicken shed. A lone hen was holding a silent protest. She sat in her nest with s steely look of just try to touch me and well see what will happen. Ive seen that look before in a hormonal pregnant ex coworker cough Dominyka Grazyte. So the sit in was on. I tried to reason with her, but her cold eyes fixed on mine werent flinching. It was like she was a chicken from green peace, chaining her little wings to the gates of some nuclear plant. This was a chicken with convictions, to defend the right for chickens to have their own home, and we had driven her over the edge!!! The stand off continued... So after much negotiation, and I think she was starting to suffer from Stockholm syndrome, we can to a truce. Chicken was to get her homeland. So two burley and annoyed builders( good thing for her I was playing good cop) had to erect a peace wall, well roof to protect ms henavich. There she now sits in open ground amid the ruins of her former home. A chicken with principles, a chicken with pride but most of all a chicken with a look of gloat in her dark eyes!!! Roll on Sunday lunch....,,,
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 09:43:46 +0000