Dramatis Personae
BY - a very persistant diety with a lot of experience in making archangels toe the line
Micky - who'se ambitions rather exceed his capacity
Joan - a busy girl who is keen to meet Fluffy
Rafe - who is being bothered both by Joan and a passing tractor
Gabi - who is sent to find the ice
Harry - who is let down by his allies
Freyja - a diety with a taste for new handbags
Scene 1: Harry is upstairs reading his emails
and smells the very special coffee being roasted for the evening's end of Nineteenth Century Party.
Harry wanders down to prepare for the party and finds he's out of ice. Gabi is reading the culture pages of the Sunday newspapers.
"You got nothing to do ... go and get us some ice then"
Later on, just before the guests arrive a delegation of staff demand to see Harry
"look we want a fair wage, this is not in our contracts"
"or"
"or we don't work tonight"
Scene 2: The Party has started, most of the guests have arrived
Just as the party becomes busy, the waitresses find out that the waiters got a pay rise earlier.
"or"
"or we don't work any more"
In some frustration, Harry wanders up to the Big Yin
"seems as if no one wants to fight for you"
Spotting that Gabi is back with the ice, he tells him the tale of the great naval victory
"and you should have seen their faces when the croc attacked"
Fluffy and Thumper are regaling the guests with their tales from the recent war
as Joan bursts in
"oh Fluffy, I'm so glad I could make it"
later on, the Big Yin comes up to Harry
"your latest crocodile"
"yes"
"it lost"
Freyja wanders past
Harry looks at her new handbag
"was that ... "
"yes ... nice or what"
Very unhappy by now (and drunk) Harry spots Micky and the Big Yin talking
"hi Micky ... you making any more demands?"
"well not really"
"no he's agreed to surrender ... I suggest you do too"
Numerous petty fights break out as everyone becomes more drunk
Rafe turns up late, and flustered
"this place, so much noise, not like Rome, I was almost run down outside"
Scene 3: The morning after, Harry has a hangover
"any aspirin"
"Sire, last night, were you sure you wanted to do this?"
[So will Harry win his new war with the BY? Why does he want Nicaragua when he has so much coffee already?]