Day Nine Hundred and Fifty Nine

Miss Pancake 

We did not have to go to work today. 

Because it is our Wednesday for not working. That is good because I am a bit tired of working. 

We went for a very long walk and found not even one bit of snow on our garden. 

Then Zita went out to do some important errands and I minded Niamh right in the living room. 

But when my friends the Badgers were all awake they told me it was a very sad day.

Because a long long time ago the Badgers and lots of their very best friends were in a giant fight.

To help a prince. 

And they lost.

Because they did not have enough loud as could be cannons. 

But the other people had lots and lots of those loud cannons. 

So nobody could hear the Badger’s very fierce bagpipes. 

And you cannot win battles when you cannot hear the bagpipes, Colonel Dugal told me. 

Then the Badgers and all their friends had to hide, and they took their bagpipes with them. 

And everybody hid in secret rooms in their castles. 

And the silly prince ran away to France, because he was not so very brave at all. 

And Festis told me that the prince ran away so fast he forgot all his money. 

And then all the Badgers laughed so much that Dugal had to sit down. My goodness. 

They were so loud that Craig got up to see what was going on. 

So Niamh had to tell him. 

Because all the badgers were still laughing too much. 

Craig had his coffees and said that lots of his long time ago relatives were there too. 

And some of them are still there. Oh dear. That is way it is a sad day.

Craig’s relatives did not have their own castles to hide in, so they went back to their little islands.

And got a big boat and then they all came here. That was a good idea. 

Then Niamh had to go downstairs for an important meeting, and the Badgers had to get their very best clothes all ready.

Because they are going to Mister Cameron Highland’s special restaurant. 

That is where they sing their sad songs and dance on top of pointy swords. 

Then they all have very big bowls ice cream with Dugal’s whisky on top. My goodness.

Then it was my lunch time and just like that Zita came home too. 

But she had to go out right away, because it is nearly Auntie Eileen’s birthday.   

But Craig did not even have his breakfast, because he was listening to the Badgers.

So he made a very delicious only jams sandwich.

Because Zita brought some very brand new bread. Ha. 

Then my friend Tarryn was here to have her coffee and do her university work downstairs. 

Then Craig and I had another new bread sandwich and that had peanut butter with the jams.

So it was a peanut butter and jams sandwich. Ha.

When Zita got home she talked to some people on her telephone, until it was our time for another lovely walk. 

And we were not even tired when we got home. 

Mister Jamie came to find Tarryn and Niamh and take them to the hard questions restaurant. 

So we had tasty toasts with lots of eggs on top. 

And then it was just the right time for our nice detective who always rides a bicycle.

Just like Mister Tyler .