Fly The Flag

Dear O'H dear, Lovely Tea Jenny and The Mini Princesses,

The Youngest Mini Princess and The Eldest Mini Princess’s flatmate, Helena, joined us for the night as EMP and Helena are running the Edinburgh half marathon tomorrow.

Last night The Prince and Punter were out with a whole crowd that they’ve know forever (mainly from school). There had been a lot of reminiscing and they regaled us with some of the tales over dinner.

Poppy stopped them at one point “Do all your stories start with ‘We’d had a few beers..?”.

Short answer - Yes!

They mainly seem to involve stealing things*. In their twenties, Punter, The Prince, Poodle and someone else with a random nickname decided at the end of a night out to go to a hotel where one of their friends worked to get a much needed extra drink.

Unsurprisingly they didn’t make it past the front door so in the absence of a beer, they decided to relieve the hotel flag pole of its flag! They were walking down the street with Poodle carrying their ill gotten prize when the police caught up with them.

“Where did you get that flag lads?” enquired one of the policemen.

Quick action had to be taken.

“What flag?” retorted Poodle, throwing it over a wall.

Although this cunning move didn’t fool anyone, the police found it entertaining and all was forgotten after they climbed over the wall and retrieved it.

This was the first of the stolen flags, some of which now reside in New Zealand!

C

*or poo