Full attendance today at John and Sheila's with diverse stories. Brian told of the deafening sound of the space shuttle leaving planet Earth. Joan Read's heroine saved by a spirit stag who blocked the way and saved her life. Sue wrote poetry and it was very good about the one. Sheila a story about the trouble writing one. Rosemary recounted a tale of a guide dog and its replacement. Ann told of all the fairies working in the garden. Sally wrote about a Boys Own story of adventure in the desert. I wrote about a tycoon who had it all and was about to lose it. Joan loss of the father and joining the U3A. Pat with creepy crawlies.
John won this week with.
THE ONE.
THE ONLY WAY TO DESCRIBE HER WAS "THE ONE"
SHE WAS VERY MUCH THE SPOILT ONLY CHILD OF JACK AND HIS WIFE LIL, AND THEY SHOWERED THEIR LOVE AND AFFECTION UPON LITTLE PRIMROSE IN ANY WAY THEY COULD. SHE WAS GIVEN THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, NOTHING WAS TOO MUCH FOR THEIR LITTLE DARLING. AS SHE WAS GROWING UP PRIMROSE WAS BLISSFULLY UNAWARE OF THE MANY PITFALLS SHE WAS GOING TO ENCOUNTER, FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT MUMMY AND DADDY KEPT HER COCOONED, IN HER OWN LITTLE WORLD. OF COURSE SHE DID HAVE CONTACT WITH OTHER CHILDREN OF HER OWN AGE WHEN SHE STARTED SCHOOL, BUT IT WAS AVERY TOUGH REALISATION FOR HER TO KNOW THAT WHAT SHE WANTED WAS NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE ALL THE TIME. IT MADE FOR A VERY TOUGH AND RUDE AWAKENING FOR THIS YOUNG LADY WHO HAD AND INDEED GOT HER OWN WAY MOST OF THE TIME. THERE WERE TRIPS TO THE SCHOOL BY LIL, WHO WAS MOST INDIGNANT THAT HER ONE AND ONLY LITTLE DARLING WAS NOT HAVING THINGS ALL HER OWN WAY. SHE LET THE STAFF KNOW THAT THEY HAD TO PROTECT AND CARE FOR THE PRECOCIOUS PRIMROSE AT ALL TIMES. NEEDLESS TO SAY LIL BECAME A FAIRLY REGULAR THORN IN THE SIDES OF THE SCHOOL WHO LOST ALL THEIR RESPECT FOR THIS ARROGANT DEMANDING PARENT, AND UNFORTUNATELY COLOURED THEIR FEELINGS FOR THE CHILD, WHO LIVED UP TO THE REPUTATION SHE AQUIRED, WITH A REGULAR SHOW OF PETULENCE, THAT BECAME UNACCEPTABLE. THE HEAD DECIDED THAT PRIMROSE WAS NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO CARRY IN THIS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE WAY ANY LONGER, AND CALLED IN THE PARENTS FOR THE INEVITABLE SHOWDOWN. BE REMOVED FROM THE SCHOOL. WITH THIS MUMMY AND DADDY TOOK LEAVE OF THEIR SENSES AND WHAT WAS A VITRIOLIC WAR OF WORDS, SUDDENLY TURNED INTO A PHYSICAL CONFRONTATION, WITH JACK AND LIL ATTACKING THE HEAD, AND TOTALLY TAKING LEAVE OF THEIR SENSES.
THE POLICE WERE CALLED AND THE PARENTS ENDED UP AT THE POLICE STATION, WHERE THEY WERE BOTH CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING THE HEAD.
WHEN THE CASE CAME TO COURT, IT CREATED LURID HEADLINES AND NOT A LITTLE SENSATION. THERE IT WAS FOR ALL TO SEE. " LOCAL VICAR AND HIS WIFE CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING SCHOOL HEAD" IT SAID. WHAT SHAME FOR THE LOCAL DIOCESE.
NOT ONLY WERE THEY BOTH CONVICTED, BUT JACK NOW AWAITED A CONFROTATION WITH HIS BISHOP, AND AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE AS A MEMBER OF THE CLOTH. LITTLE PRIMROSE WOULD NOT REALISE FOR MANY YEARS HOW HER BEHAVIOR AND HER PARENTS STUPIDITY, HAD BEEN SO CATASTROPHIC FOR THEM ALL
