Samantha's Broken Heart

I did a few jobs and got in around 8.30pm
" there's been a few phone calls for you" Chris muttered
" flower show queries and some woman called Kate about a goose"
He harrumphed
" more waifs and strays , I suppose"
I rang "Kate" back. She sounded frail and worried.
She and her husband had been looking after a couple of her daughter's geese for a few years. The gander had recently died leaving a terribly distraught goose following family members around , constantly distressed , anxious and searching.
The woman sounded at her wits end.
I described my set up here, and although geese are notoriously fickle when it comes to new members of a flock , I offered to take the goose in.
Kate sounded unsure, so I left the ball in her court and told her to visit the field if and when she was passing...the goose, she told me, was called Samantha....and I laughed
" you must be  film fan" I said "or at lease a fan of the film Friendly Persuasion?" I told her
The woman was surprised
"You're the first person to ever guess that" she said
( for those that don't know Friendly Persuasion was a 1956 film about a family of Quakers living in the shadow of the American civil war . It starred Dorothy McGuire who had a pet goose called Samantha)

Dorothy McGuire saving Samantha from those damm Yankies

We will see if Samantha arrives...pining animals are notoriously difficult to care for..And I have enough on my plate this week....I am, however,  reminded of a story I read a couple of days ago, about an elderly couple who passed away four hours apart after 62 years together...the visual of their last time together is a powerful one

Don & Maxine Simpson

Oh dear

Anyhow I will leave you on a brighter note

Here is the latest entry in the novelty veg

It's from kitty Jamison

And is a cracker!