Gaz finished his song, with his eyes shut imagining the tumultuous applause he was receiving, the dog looked at him with one lazy eye and dozed off.

"Finally" - thought the dog to himself - "I can get a shut eye - that howling kept reminding me of me mum nagging the heck out of me"

Gaz however had other ideas, whilst in his drunken stupor he staggered back to Julie's house to profess his undying love for Orange tango but there was one man that stood in his way; Brian...

had decided the only way to stop Brian was to literally stand in his way holding a

pitchfork with Julies messy food splattered cooking apron hung off his shoulders (like a cape), the inflatable sheep thought he looked quite attractive and thus started to chat him up...

Fluttering it's eyelashes seductively, or as seductively as an inflatable sheep can, in a husky voice, the sheep said, "Baaaaaaaaaaaah!" Which rougly translated, meant

"Baaaaaaaaaaaah!" because we all know that sheep (inflatable or otherwise) do not communicate vocally, or in any other way for that matter.

which is why it took him totally by surprise because

he wasn't expecting it.

Only as late as yesterday...

he'd been expecting it to happen, bit after todays events it all came as a shocking bolt out of the blue.

It took a minute or two for the knowledge to sink in, but suddenly, both Gaz and Brian realised that the shocking bolt out of the blue had actually been a lightening strike, and a very accurate one at that, hitting precisely

where it hurt him most

on the end of his

hernia scar

from the hernia operation made necessary due to his tendency to

suffer from hernias.

These being caused by his continual straining to reach things that were taller than him.

like daisies, Jack Russell terriers and carpets.

and even snake's bellies

As you've probably guessed dear reader, he was shorter than a very short man who lived in shortsville.

However, his hernias gave him some height from time to time.

Especially when one of the 'tall people' accidentally stood on it and he shot through the roof.

Brian and Gaz stared at each other incredulously. There was a frisson of excitement in the air as the birds twittered from their new homes in the barn, suddenly Gaz said:

****** me! the birds are twittering!