Wednesday 17 April 2013

Ceremony of Watching the International Space Station go Over

Beaker Folk shuffle out into the Darkness

Archdruid: Will you shut those torches down!

All: And also with yours.

Archdruid: Yes, but my phone's got Google Sky on it.

All: Fair enough, let's watch!

Burton: Is that it?

All: No. That's a plane.

Burton: Is that it?

All: No. That's Aldebaran.

Burton: Is that it?

All: No. That's someone's security light.


Burton: Is that it?


All: No. That's the Amazon warehouse.

Burton: Is that it?

Archdruid: No. That's a badger.

All: A badger????

All may scream and run around. A thud rings out.

Marston: I've run into a tree! I've run into a tree! I've gone blind!

Someone may remove Marston's cap, which has fallen over his face.

Burton: Is that it?

All: No. That's the Air Ambulance, coming for Marston.

Hnaef: Oh, wait. It's British Summer Time, isn't it? I've used GMT to work it out. Still, there's a lot of cloud about anyway. We were lucky to see that star...


The Beaker Folk retreat, defeated yet again.

4 comments :

  1. No such ceremony here tonight, just me looking out my bedroom window.....clouds parted and thrre she was.....skimming past the moon.

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    1. I'd congratulate you more fully, but we're still fighting off this badger.

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  2. Tis indeed the time of badger rampaging when wary folk do well to not wander abroad arter sunfall.

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  3. Should be able to hear the sound of a Canadian made Larrivée parlour guitar coming from the space station, played by Chris Hadfield...

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