I was featured in the local newsletter 'The Enterprise' this week as part of their 'health and fitness' promotion. It wasn't a good thing. Mainly because there was a photograph of me looking rotund, captioned 'How NOT to do it - One Sheep's Weight-loss Hell'.
I don't think that you'll be surprised to learn that 'The Enterprise'' is one of enterprising couple Dave and Val Nark's latest enterprises. Or that its vile and clumsy motto is 'Boldly to Go Where No-one Has Gone Before - or at least, Not for a While.'
Val came round to ours far too early this morning with a copy hot off their bio-fuel-powered printer. More of where precisely the bio-fuel comes from, later.
'There you go Tuppy! I know we've had our differences in the past but Dave and I are nothing if not emotionally-generous and so we've put you right there on the front page! I'm sure Geoffrey will be so proud.'
'Yes that's right - thank you V - ' began Geoffrey, before I kicked him smartly behind the knee. 'Ow!'
'Well I'll be off then! Time waits for no-one and I've a pilates class at ten and I need to be on the door before they arrive so I can get the money up front. Not to mention I also have yurts to fill, goats to milk, and a post-office to run. Do stop by the post office for a lo-cal goji-berry flapjack - I've got some stale ones on special.'
And off she whisked, power-walking back up the hill to what used to be the bare and empty tourist car-park, and which is now a sprawling mass of eco-yurts, the largest and pointiest of which has been converted into a post-office-cum-eco-minimart.
'Why am I not losing weight Geoffrey? I've had keesh for tea for the past five days,' I said, as I flung 'The Enterprise' into the fire and watched my own face staring back at me before it vanished forever into ash.
'I don't know Tuppy. Keesh is supposed to be healthy. Everyone eats it when they're on a diet. You've also had salad with everything, as well, so what with that and the keesh you should be really slim by now. It's a mystery Tuppy. I hate to say, but you might have to consult Dr Wilson. You could have a glandular problem.'
more later.
I don't think that you'll be surprised to learn that 'The Enterprise'' is one of enterprising couple Dave and Val Nark's latest enterprises. Or that its vile and clumsy motto is 'Boldly to Go Where No-one Has Gone Before - or at least, Not for a While.'
Val came round to ours far too early this morning with a copy hot off their bio-fuel-powered printer. More of where precisely the bio-fuel comes from, later.
'There you go Tuppy! I know we've had our differences in the past but Dave and I are nothing if not emotionally-generous and so we've put you right there on the front page! I'm sure Geoffrey will be so proud.'
'Yes that's right - thank you V - ' began Geoffrey, before I kicked him smartly behind the knee. 'Ow!'
'Well I'll be off then! Time waits for no-one and I've a pilates class at ten and I need to be on the door before they arrive so I can get the money up front. Not to mention I also have yurts to fill, goats to milk, and a post-office to run. Do stop by the post office for a lo-cal goji-berry flapjack - I've got some stale ones on special.'
And off she whisked, power-walking back up the hill to what used to be the bare and empty tourist car-park, and which is now a sprawling mass of eco-yurts, the largest and pointiest of which has been converted into a post-office-cum-eco-minimart.
'Why am I not losing weight Geoffrey? I've had keesh for tea for the past five days,' I said, as I flung 'The Enterprise' into the fire and watched my own face staring back at me before it vanished forever into ash.
'I don't know Tuppy. Keesh is supposed to be healthy. Everyone eats it when they're on a diet. You've also had salad with everything, as well, so what with that and the keesh you should be really slim by now. It's a mystery Tuppy. I hate to say, but you might have to consult Dr Wilson. You could have a glandular problem.'
more later.
