The Art of Posing

Saturday morning down at the docks….

Working from left to right and up and down a bit, over the platform we can see Dizzie Lizzie who we’ve not seen for a while in the land of the inch high. But here she is trying to make a comeback, but as we know, she’s not known for keeping any kind of job down for more than a week or two. 

In front of our Liz, local business and ladies’ man Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe and Barry Bullhead from The Ministry of Misery are discussing how to expand their moonshine production. Liz looks like she wants to be involved, but she’ll almost certainly crash the business overnight with her wacky ideas. 

Bob Geeza Cat and Rufus Hound appear to be the best of buddies these days. Rufus loves company, even if it’s in the form of a cat, and today Bob is teaching Rufus the art of posing in the perfect spot to compliment any photographs taken. Bob even taught celebrated artist Terrence Cuneo where place to his signature mouse which appears in many of his paintings. Such a clever cat. 

Rumbling through is the morning goods hauled by what appears to be another borrowed engine, which today is an ex Great Eastern Railway J15 number 65356. Some time last week it went missing from 31B March shed in rural Cambridgeshire, but the Eastern Region of British Railways are keen to get rid of all steam, so it’s unlikely they’ll be looking for it. And indeed it does fit in so well here, even though the crews prefer an engine with an enclosed cab when running tender first. 

Deidre Dinkle, former darling of the butter blending department at Hemyock is now head of sales within Terry and Barry’s moonshine empire. She’s chatting to Douglas, who used to be known as Doug before he lost his shovel. Douglas’ body language suggests that he rather fancies Deidre, but as we know she’s very much spoken for these days, but she will use her charms to sell him plenty of moonshine. 

Meanwhile, Waving Wayne has just arrived with a fresh consignment of illicit hooch from the moonshine plant on the tiny island of Steep Holm in the middle of the Bristol Channel. Wayne as we know never stops waving, he even waves when sleeping by all accounts. 

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