An Untimely Visit

After much planning, preparation and anticipation the evening finally arrived when Evil Twin and her husband (whose self-chosen Barton Lives name will not be repeated, see the corresponding episode: http://barton-lives.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-2007.html) arrived in the Shire for their long-awaited inaugural visit to the Local and for their eagerly awaited participation in Pub Quiz.

Suitable words cannot be rendered to describe the bitterness of their disappointment when, by some bitter and cruel twist of fate and coincidence, Evil Twin and nameless husband's visit coincided with a freak disruption of the one power cable that wends its way from the National Grid to the Shire thus rendering the Local plus Barton's one currently remaining grocery outlet inoperable in one fell swoop.

In a desperate bid to salvage something of the soiree they roamed the streets until spotting a dimly flickering light in an alternative drinking establishment that someone had informed them had reopened, although they were now not so sure (and which, incidentally, Billy Idle did declare to be far further from the Local than he remembered from the rare occasions he had ever ventured any further in the past.)

Inside this hive of inactivity they huddled for warmth and solace in a corner with their fellow inhabitants, largely comprising other refugees from the Local who subsequently praised Evil Twin and the nameless one for surviving a night in 'the Morgue'.

The entire evening's entertainment was not lost, however, as on leaving 'the Morgue' a large and excited crowd had gathered in the Market Place to admire the midnight floodlit display incorporating a freshly appeared large hole in which a troupe of performers in hard hats and costumes which, in the Shire, passes for 'Street Theatre'.