Me: Dave looks exhausted.
Nell: Being the Champion of Champions is extremely tiring.
Me: I don’t know why you keep calling him that.
Nell: It’s sequinned onto his hat.
Me: What hat?
Nell: The one he’s wearing to the Winners Tea on Sunday.
Me: You mean the Easter Bonnet Parade?
Nell: Don’t talk to me about bonnets. There are corgis in bonnets everywhere I look nowadays.
Me: Are you talking about the Welsh Corgi Choir?
Nell: Obviously. They’re all up at the Big House having their bonnets trimmed by The Cat.
Me: What does trimming actually mean?
Nell: It involves satin and lace. Anyway, you won’t be seeing me in a bonnet. I had my fair share of that when I was matron at a large hospital.
Me: I’m not even going to ask.
Nell: Good. Now, my friend Dorothy says there’s been some trouble at the Cottage Hotel.
Me: Oh no.
Nell: Mottram Dimbleby was spotted walking along the terrace.
Me: Is he one of the Dimbleby brothers? I only know of Jonathan, David and Richard. Although there might be a Nicholas.
Nell: Are they otters?
Me: What an odd question.
Nell: Mottram is one of the Dimbleby otters and he wasn’t supposed to be at the Cottage Hotel.
Me: I don’t suppose he was.
Nell: He caused quite an uproar amongst the guests.
Me: I expect he did. I mean you don’t expect to see an otter at a hotel.
Nell: He shouldn’t have been up there.
Me: Poor thing. He’d probably lost his way.
Nell: His meeting was down at the harbour.
Me: His meeting?
Nell: You’re doing that repeating thing again.
Me: What meeting?
Nell: With the Beefies about the missing mackerel.
Me: Why?
Nell: He’s Minister for Fisheries. Do keep up.
Me: I see. Sorry.
