Bulletin From Bromham: Dateline
– Sunday 5th June 2016
Here is our weekly round-up of events from Bromham:
1. Bromham
paid tribute this week to the death of a champion. The amateur boxer Mohammed Barley, the “Bromham
Blip”, famed locally for once winning one round on points in one of his many
unsuccessful , has died aged 75. He
changed his name by deed poll in 1975 from Cassius “Clay” Piglet, after he
turned his back on the vegetable way of life and adopted cereal crops. In 1979 he refused to serve in the local
militia in the fight against the Seend Separatists, claiming it as a “vegetable”
war, which his faith would not allow him to participate in, and was sentenced
to three years’ hard labour in the carrot fields.
2. A
Bromham father has apologised in public after being reunited with the child he had
deliberately left at the edge of the village as a punishment for being
naughty. The boy was found safe and well
almost 200 yards away on the edge of a broccoli field, having survived for six
days existing mostly on pond water and fresh vegetables. He was said to be a lot healthier than when
his father abandoned him in the first place.
3.
For
details of these and all other Bromham stories, don’t forget to listen to local
radio station Carrot FM.
Copyright
Andy Fawthrop 2016
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