Once upon a time

[Sheneval]

[trust you to bring ... into the picture]

chocolate eggs, which it seems from the shelves of stores that will be nameless, breed at an alarming rate - expect to find they have been contaminated by horse DNA at any time now.............

[veggiechicken]

....and will be renamed Cadpony's Chocolate eggs...........

[Sheneval]

advertised as a remedy if you are a little ho[a]rse.............

[veggiechicken]

............or not fillying your best.........

[Madasafish]

and galloping on to better things..........

[veggiechicken]

.......than having the trots...........

[Sheneval]

taking that as a suggestion, Shen trots off to the allotment to spend an hour or two contemplating nature's wonders and, feeling a little smug, (whilst watching other allotment holders breaking their backs to get their plots in order before spring is sprung), offering bad advice by the ton like: put your back into it and you've missed a bit etc etc. which, for some strange reason is treated with laughter rather than rage - perhaps it is the 'have a slug of this whisky' from the proferred hip flask that turneth away wrath hmmm.......

[veggiechicken]

........Slugs, did someone mention slugs in a flask .........where will they be found next...........

[Madasafish]

slugs can often be found in your shower climbing up the inside of the drain pipe in order to have a better view iof those showering or....

[Sheneval]

even climbing up the outside of drainpipes for the same purpose but I don't know anyone who does that except the Barmaid at the GR.........

[Aberdeenplotter]

who probably also leaves a .......................

[Sheneval]

trail of woe behind her..........................

[mothhawk]

...garden fence, which is rather rickety owing to...

[Sheneval]

Trip leaning on it with tongue hanging out whilst he waits....................

[veggiechicken]

......for a sight of his favourite barmaid, bearing...........