Fasting Friday

Good  ideas for Lent

• Giving up red meat and things from the chocolate machine (Eileen)
• Giving up red meat and port (Hnaef)
• Giving up men (Stacey Bushes - personally I'd given up on men years ago)
• Giving up dancing naked on Aspley Heath (the Beaker Fertility Folk - although I think they're just glad of the excuse not to in this weather)
• Giving up standing on Ridgmont Station taking the same train's number over and over again all day (Burton Dasset)
• Refraining from persuading people that the Great House is Woburn Abbey and selling them tickets (Young Keith)
• Giving up Death Metal (Drayton Parslow)
• Giving 10% more of your income to Community Funds - nobody's offered, but if they would like to I'll give them an extra tea light.

 

Bad ideas for Lent

• Giving up breathing (Marston Mortaine.  The good news is that every time he passes out he breaks his fast.  Still, respect for the self-control when he's conscious)
• Giving up going to work (Elbert.  That's 10% of an IT help desk operator's salary that won't be coming our way for the foreseeable future).
• Standing in the pond up to your waist while holding a bird in a nest in your hand (Oicumenika - in the first place, she's combined two different saints.  In the second place, they were both Celtic and therefore not recognised in the Beaker pantheon.  And in the third place, we had to pull her out when she went blue and her legs stopped working.
• Saving money by making tea lights out of melted-down dead badgers (Burghley).
• Eating only seal meat (Rordricka.  Again, we suspect she's done this in an attempt to be vaguely Celtic.  But it's a nightmare in the kitchen.  And the smell of roast seal just hangs over the place.