Tiny Humour Splash #33
To make you smile
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The character:
Mrs A: my mother’s cleaning lady, who could not read.
When I was growing up, we kept chickens. We used to put all vegetarian scraps into a Le Creuset (orange, of course) pot with some water and leave it in the bottom oven of the Aga overnight. The next day when it had cooled, we would add chicken feed (grain) to the pot and feed the whole sorry mess to the chickens.
My parents took us on holiday once and left Mrs A in charge. There was also a bag of powdered cement in the outhouse where the chicken feed lived.
When we got home, we found that we couldn’t crack any of the eggs. It took a while to work out why.
NB: no chickens were hurt in the making of this humour splash; that may be a lie: they had sore bottoms for a few days but made a quick recovery.
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