Bulletin From Bromham: Dateline
– Sunday 29th December 2013
Here is our weekly round-up of events from Bromham:
1.
Villagers are still coming to terms with the
fact that over Christmas there has been a lot of weather. Weather first struck on Christmas Eve,
continued through Christmas Day and persisted all the way in to Boxing Day. “Well, it’s global warming, innit?” was the
general reaction when opinions were canvassed in the snug bar of the Wounded
Ferret. The weather has receded for a
couple of days, but forecasters at the world-famous Bromham Meteorological
Station have said that yet more weather is to be expected today and tomorrow. The New Year, 2014, is predicted to have a
lot of weather.
2.
Christmas
came early for at least one villager, who discovered that a pound of sprouts
that he bought in Sainsburys on the Monday before Christmas for only 45p, had
rocketed in value to almost 70p by closing time on Christmas Eve. He had kept the sprouts in a plain paper bag
for almost two days, unaware of how much his purchase was really worth. The true worth of the vegetables only came to
light when the man, who wishes not to be named for security reasons, took them
round to his daughter-in-law’s house for preparation. The man says he is going to put his financial
windfall towards half a pint of shandy.
3.
For
details of these and all other Bromham stories, don’t forget to listen to local
radio station Carrot FM.
Copyright
Andy Fawthrop 2013
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