The
Honorable Piss Pot Award’ - Annual
Dinner 2019
And here he is! Smiling happily, proudly holding the Honorable Piss Pot, mostly awarded for the magnificent effort he
made chopping up the giant tree, felled by John Baker, winner of the Yellow
Welly award. There
is however a small confession to be made, involving this truly humongous
effort! We
went to the farm, armed with chainsaw, protective gear and all the rigmarole
that goes with it, intending to ‘do our bit’ and get a good chunk of the giant
tree chopped. Bill reckoned he could probably get through about half of it. Work began on the smaller branches first which
I helped to stack as Bill chain - sawed
them into manageable pieces.
Sometime later when he started on the
main trunk and pieces were getting too big for me to carry, I retired to the
kitchen to make us a brew and do a bit of cleaning.
The sun was out, and it
really was a lovely peaceful day at the farm. We stopped working to have a tea
break and Bill, who kind of looked ready to give up by then, asked me what the
time was. I checked my watch and told him, “Twenty past two.”
“Is that all!” he said,
genuinely surprised.
“I might as well do a bit
more then.”
And he did! In fact, he
carried on beavering away all afternoon till the entire length of trunk was
completely chopped up.
It wasn’t until Ray
arrived at the farm on one of his usual checks that we realised my watch was
wrong, by a good hour and half! ‘Twenty past two’ had really been ‘ten to four’
which would have definitely been packing up time. So by fluke of my watch being an hour and
half out, the job was finished! Well
done Bill!
Susan Osborne