“There I was, a-digging this hole..

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(Courtesy of Bernard Cribbens [opens YouTube])

“Hole in the ground, so big and sort of round it was
And there was I, digging it deep
It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep
When along comes this bloke in a bowler which he lifted and scratched his head
Well he looked down the hole, poor demented soul and he said

Do you mind if I make a suggestion?

Don’t dig there, dig it elsewhere
Your digging it round and it ought to be square
The shape of it’s wrong, it’s much much too long
And you can’t put hole where a hole don’t belong”

“I ask, what a liberty eh?
Nearly bashed him right in the bowler

Well there was I, stood in me hole
Shovelling earth for all that I was worth I was
And there was him, standing up there
So grand and official with his nose in the air
So I gave him a look sort of sideways and I leaned on me shovel and sighed
Well I lit me a fag and having took a drag I replied

I just couldn’t bear, to dig it elsewhere
I’m digging it round cos I don’t want it square
And if you disagree it doesn’t bother me
That’s the place where the holes gonna be”

“Well there we were, discussing this hole
Hole in the groud so big and sort of round it was
It’s not there now, the ground’s all flat
And beneath it is the bloke in the bowler hat
And that’s that”

Heehee

The hole is still there really (we haven’t had the man with the bowler hat round yet – honest!) but a whole load of brambles:

now aren’t:

And, although I enjoyed building what will be our Beltane bonfire with them:

– they poked me in the eye, by way of retaliation! So I’m kind of painfully squinting at the screen today. Hmm. It will be a good bonfire!

A few more hole shots:

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