David Thayer

Hello from Watership Down! I having to shout this fine day as we are swooping across the Salisbury Plain in a modified Hind gunship. There are three assault helicopters in our group, Friends of All Birds. Leading the formation is an Alouette, an extremely inferior craft developed by the French. The Alouette will dive when the grouse are spotted; the birds will find our approach disturbing and fly off. Our door gunner is prepared for that eventuality with a .50 calibre machine gun. Needless to say, all precautions have been taken to avoid traffic on the M-4 and ancillary roads. Think of the hue and the cry from the inky remnants of failed socialism should we ‘hose’ commuters! Endless bother.

I was quite appalled by Thayer’s Pigs on Trial post of the twelth ultimo. First of all, Thayer is a former Catholic seminarian, having spent three years in a Benedictine school of medieval repute. He was not poking fun at the Roman Church, but in a more sinister twist, he was implying that under Conservative Rule, we are entering a New Inquisition. My read is thus: his post was a thinly veiled critique of the trend away from the separation of church and state. Church and State! Twin pillars of hope, beacons of a new enlightment….

We’re fleeing toward the coast. The grouse are returning fire. My on line diary reflects our collective horror in real time. Lunch in Torquay should we survive! Anon.

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