ANOTHER CHRISTMAS GAME

ended until some of the senior ones branched out and formed a ring to do the Okey, Cokey. You put your left foot in, your right foot in, your left foot in, and shake...

it all about...do the Okey, Cokey and turn around and ooops adaisy...

there seem to be quite a few casualties strewn about, what with all this unaccustomed exuberant frivolity! Cliff appears to be positively comatose and people keep tripping over him...

...as for the handsome young chappie playing the bagpipes...

his kilt seems to be becoming dangerously adrift...!

...and as for his sporran...

it's got a life of its own!

At the height of the frivolities, when everyone was exceedingly jolly, Cliff was still lying on the floor and the bagpipe player was hitting a high note, there was a loud BANG and the lights went out. The sound of the bagpipes trailed off and..............

there was complete silence then a hoarse, whispering voice was heard to say .......

'Good evening everyone, I'm Dobbin the pantomime horse and I seem to have lost my way. Can one of you please point me in the direction of.....

a decent dressing room. It appears that my tail has become tangled up with...

someone's crinoline. At once,....

the naughty gremlins thought that it would be a "good laff" if they were to...

volunteer to help the donkey. In fact, they planned to surprise Cliff by ....

...turning the donkey back into a pantomime horse who did a little tap dance with relief and galloped off to find the....

rosy-nosed man in red who was waiting somewhat impatiently to...

...pack up his sleigh so that he could start his long journey round the world to deliver all the presents. 'Thank goodness you are here, it's getting very late' said Jack 'and look who's waiting over there, it's......

Father Christmas who is quickly getting his jolly red robe on, over that teeny-weeny red bikini.

No, that was not Father Christmas, it was a hen night stripper who'd missed the last bus home!

They sent him packing and waited for the real Santa, who was having trouble with his

reindeers' nosebags before setting out to ......

....visit all the Gransnetters and dished out coal to the naughty ones and lovely presents to those who were nice.......

which meant that there were lots of lovely, cosy homes with crackling firesides to which a multitude of Gransnetters headed bearing armfuls of goodies...

Who sniffed the shadow soop? And why?

OOps! Sorry! Was re-reading from the beginning. Obviously not well enough.