Sunday 18 May 2014

The Hornet.


A loud buzzing. Very loud big buzzing. I turn round to see a gigantic hornet investigating the studio. The hornet vanishes down a tube of rolled up drawings stored in a space situated eight feet up. It disappears. Does it live there? I am gripped in terror. It is huge. I am 5 foot nine. It is two inches or thereabouts.  Silence. Menacing quiet. I return to my desk. It re-emerges a few minutes later. Patrolling the ceiling. Briefly it focusses on it's target ....me and dives and I squeal like a fifties cartoon bee-hive sporting girl. Before it changes tack and zooms back to the ceiling and into the skylight window, seizing my chance I grapple with the pole thingy that is the tool that  opens the window I fumble in panic as I lever the window open and the hornet obliges in a flash and is gone. Drama over. God that was close thing.

Then it returns.............

5 comments:

  1. I think it just wanted to see what you were drawing.

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    1. Nothing. I was drawing nothing. So I drew this ugly pictorial witness statement to prolong the agony. To delay the process further.

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  2. Also, where was your attack dog (Dexter) when you needed him?

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    1. Don't know. Dexter is an independent beast - has better fishes to fry? He loves haddock.

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  3. I like Dexter's thinking…fish and chips! mmm.

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