Well, I’ve had a few days off from writing this as everything has been very busy. It was Tingle’s one hundred and twentieth birthday at the weekend so we had a party for him and what with making a cake large enough for all those candles and ensuring that none of them blew themselves up with the fireworks, there wasn’t much time left. Then the smoke set off Rhodri’s asthma, and while I was attending to him, Tingle managed to set fire to his best suit and singe his beard. Meanwhile Grumbo was busy concocting some sort of party trick that involved a full bottle of my olive oil that he helped himself to from the kitchen. Inevitably, of course, it ended up all over the floor and he slipped in it and broke his other leg (-he broke the right one a few years ago when he fell off his sleigh).
Really, they are all so accident prone and unreliable that it’s high time we girls took a hand with the business. Grumbo will be out of action for at least six weeks, and Tingle is in such a bad mood because he thinks his singed beard spoils his looks, that I can’t see how the run up to the 24th is to be managed without us. As Grumbo can’t take Rudolph out at present, I have taken advantage by offering to look after him myself, and Nick has hardly been in a position to refuse. – Not that Rudolph actually needs anyone to look after him, for a more self sufficient reindeer I have never come across, but I told Nick that he did, and he was so busy worrying about the workload that he just accepted it.
It is quite easy to persuade Rudolph to do things providing you allow him to believe that the original idea was his own. I told him that the Mother Christmases were very fed up with being indoors and after a while I drew him into suggesting that he and the other reindeer could take them out for a run. After I’ve got the MCs buttering them up for a bit and they’ve got used to the idea of girls on the sleigh, I’ll introduce him to the idea of MCs taking over some of the runs. He loves the idea of being in charge, so if he is responsible for ‘training’ the MCs, showing them their routes and organising some of the other reindeer he’ll jump at it. There should be no need for the FCs to know anything about it until we are ready.
Well, that’s the plan so far. Now I have to go and do some invisible mending on Tingle’s suit and cover the main burn marks with extra fur.
Really, they are all so accident prone and unreliable that it’s high time we girls took a hand with the business. Grumbo will be out of action for at least six weeks, and Tingle is in such a bad mood because he thinks his singed beard spoils his looks, that I can’t see how the run up to the 24th is to be managed without us. As Grumbo can’t take Rudolph out at present, I have taken advantage by offering to look after him myself, and Nick has hardly been in a position to refuse. – Not that Rudolph actually needs anyone to look after him, for a more self sufficient reindeer I have never come across, but I told Nick that he did, and he was so busy worrying about the workload that he just accepted it.
It is quite easy to persuade Rudolph to do things providing you allow him to believe that the original idea was his own. I told him that the Mother Christmases were very fed up with being indoors and after a while I drew him into suggesting that he and the other reindeer could take them out for a run. After I’ve got the MCs buttering them up for a bit and they’ve got used to the idea of girls on the sleigh, I’ll introduce him to the idea of MCs taking over some of the runs. He loves the idea of being in charge, so if he is responsible for ‘training’ the MCs, showing them their routes and organising some of the other reindeer he’ll jump at it. There should be no need for the FCs to know anything about it until we are ready.
Well, that’s the plan so far. Now I have to go and do some invisible mending on Tingle’s suit and cover the main burn marks with extra fur.