Series 1, Episode IX

Grandpa and Grandma should have been going into London this morning to hear Schubert's D.803 Octet from the Elias Quartet and others - a work and a team which usually work for us. Plus a visit to All-Bar-One for tea and somewhere else, possibly 2 Veneti next door to the concert hall, an establishment last visited shortly before the lockdown started.

While they were nattering about what they might have been doing had there not been any lockdown, Polly and her friends thought they would do a spot of troll standing, a new game they had read about the evening before. The idea is that in the woods, in the spring, when the trolls are just hatching out from their winter hibernation underground, you go and stand on their heads. You have to stand there for at least five minutes for it to count, and you have to be careful not to sneeze yourself or to tickle their noses, either of which might have unpleasant results. Including troll sneezes which can be very unpleasant indeed, being the first of their year after a winter underground.

And at the bottom of our garden there are a pair of trolls, important and powerful trolls from Nigeria, which came to us via Bridport market. Rather late up this year, perhaps put off by the pleasant, warm weather - trolls tend to be miserable and like miserable weather - having been much earlier last year, as can be seen from reference 3. Nevertheless, just right for troll standing.

Except that Polly and Yuri grabbed the two best places and Pedro could only manage at all by lying down. Making his score for troll standing, so far this year, zero.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/series-1-episode-viii.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/03/penultimate-outing.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/03/easter-island.html.

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