For Penny, and her thoughts!

‘Bing?’

‘Yes guv?’

‘I’m a bit mystified because you haven’t made any comment about your altercation with that buzzer.’

The lad looked at me, sat and thought very hard.

‘No, I can’t think what it is you are alluding to.’

‘Ah, I see…is the memory too hurtful?’

‘Um……..’

Again the boy looked very hard at nothing in particular, wrinkled his hooter and ‘umm’ed’ several times.

‘Oh, you mean the stinger guv!’

‘That’s the chap Bing.’

‘Well to be honest old poop it was a tremendous shock at the time. There I was trundling about, minding my own business, and feeling rather pleased, as the day was very sunny and the grass smelt luvvery, and having sniffed a few of those bright coloured whatsits.......’

‘Flowers?’

‘Those are the fellows….and such like.  Anyway, I was trundling towards a suitable spot, bathed in sunshine, for a short 40 wags, when…..I felt something in my foot that made me almost leap over the garden fence!’

‘Really?’

‘Well I can’t be absolutely sure, but I shot up mighty high, and when I landed my paw was fairly throbbing like a good’un.’

‘Lummy.’

‘Lummy indeed guv. Frankly, I found it quite hard to put my paw down, so I limped into the house and told Angela and Tom!

‘Crumbs.’

‘No crumbs guv, not even a small treat!  Naturally they had a look and then decided to take me up to the you-know-where, and have it looked at by you-know-who.’

‘I see.’

‘As you know guv the you-know-what’s is not my most favourite place….’

‘I can't think why Bing, after all, the ladies there always make rather a fuss of you.’

‘Well yes that’s true….’

‘And let’s face it even the you-know-him is rather a cheery sort of cove, who quickly sorts out whatever it is that needs looking at.’

‘That’s true…here who’s telling this tale?’

‘Sorry Bing, do please carry on.’

‘Well..um..oh you see I’ve lost my thread now, where was I?’

‘At the VE……the place up the hill?’

‘Probably……um…yes that’s it, I was soon telling them about this most curious event, and they were, I have to say, very sympathetic, and I of course limped beautifully!’

‘Oh Bing you didn’t!’

‘Certainly guv, certainly.’

‘Was it that painful?’

‘What?’

‘Your paw.’

‘Oh yes, although I did at one point realise I was limping on the wrong paw, but I don’t think anyone noticed.’

‘Bing really, I’m quite shocked!’

‘Hey I’m a hound guv, a chap’s got to make his point as best as he can.’

‘M’mmm.’

‘Well you did ask guv, and it really wasn’t very nice, and Mr you-know-who, managed to find the stingy bit and pull it out.’

‘I see.’

‘Naturally I put on my most noble look, and departed the scene to a round of applause.’

‘Really?’

‘Abso-blooming-lutely guv….well that’s how I remember it AND I know the ladies where very sad to see me leave.’

‘Well Bingo, I hope in future this experience will teach you to keep a sharp eye out when you are trundling about.’

‘M’mmm.’

‘M’mmm??’

‘Well guv, I think it was you I feel sure, who managed to stub his toe on the leg of the piano the other day!’

‘Ah well…..um.’

‘And let’s face it, that piano is blooming huge compared to the buzzer I trod on!’

‘Well….’

‘And dare I point out it is always where it is…it doesn’t move around….not even slightly.’

‘Ah yes well you see…..’

‘That’s it guv, I see it, the whole blooming family and any visitor sees it, and yet the old poop manages to clatter into it!’

‘M’mmm.’

‘I rest my case.’

And there I think we will leave that particularly painful event. The lad has forgotten all about the sting….but my toe is still throbbing!