Saturday 21 December 2019

And the winner is...

Our elder daughter made a passing reference to her father in the national press about his efforts to retrieve the bucket that he'd dropped down the well. She mentioned his various 'Heath Robinson' attempts at retrieval. (The man does have form!) He had exhausted the grappling hook and the large magnet loaned by our neighbours. (He had also exhausted the patience of his wife.) The letters editor of the paper was amused by the response that came from readers offering a variety of novel suggestions.

Himself set to work and taped one of our mole traps to a long pole.

Was he successful?

Sadly the answer was no.

I'd been seeing this headless body for weeks!
(What would Freud have to say?)


Back to the drawing board, or, more correctly, back o the garage to construct a 'well creeper'. He made it from a cast iron ring that is a spare part from the wood burning stove, an old meat hook, five more hooks made from an old coat hanger, all attached with various bits of string.
 And GUESS WHAT? It worked!

Thank you, Georgina Wragg!

Just look at that bucket. What a wreck! And it has a hole in it, but he was determined not to leave it down the well.
Just to round the year off well his letter of thanks was printed  in the Times.

13 comments:

  1. Yay!! You now can claim your very own Christmas miracle 😊

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    1. More importantly I don't have to listen to a conversation about buckets ever again!

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  2. There's a hole in the bucket, dear Rosemary, dear Rosemary ... now that would try your patience even further.

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    1. There's a hole in HIS bucket. dear Tasker, dear Tasker.
      There's a hole in HIS bucket - no business of mine!

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  3. Now this will be a Christmas to remember! What will the village menfolk do with themselves with all this spare time?

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    1. Happily it's the month when we do little more than eat, drink and enjoy ourselves. There's bound to be another diversion before too long!

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  4. Wells always liked the look of them but i guess i've seen to many murder shows where the tip the body down the well.
    Merle..........

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  5. How much do buckets cost these days?

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    1. Exactly, Tom, I hear you. Buckets cost diddly squat, but I'm married to a man who can't resist a challenge.

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    2. I understand. I'm like that too.

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