bettina beehive 5

Pigs are a stupid animal, they would run down a hill straight into a barn door, and they would never learn, they always repeated the same mistake. I wasn't going to run into the barn door more than once, although I fell into the Cess pit in my best suit because my colleagues bet me I could not ride over the pit, on a plank. Well I rode the pit with pride..but they say pride goes before a fall..and it did. it rode before, and on the way back Pride jumped ship so it wouldn't land in the shit.  I did the return journey in triumph only to fall like a prize prat into the slop..dunk.
 
" more tea Vicar ?" mum said, in her monotone voice.

 Dad was dunking his Rich Tea in the cup. It's a fine tuned operation dunking biscuits, one false move and you could have a land slide on your knee.   I can never drink a land slided tea or coffee, I would have to replace it.  As children we didn't drink tea, nor coffee.  We also didn't take sugar on account of there being an embargo on sugar in the early seventies.  There was not a single grain of sugar in the land, it was un sweet times, but one thing that occurred, if you remove yourself for long enough from an item, or even a living thing, you will eventually adapt to the new state, and can function perfectly happy without the thing your life once depended upon, or so you thought it did.