Amazing Grace

Come and meet our Grace, the smut faced sheep. She's a bit shy, but she has an E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S talent so she does. We didn't really know about this talent until....
One day it went around that Physco Simon off 'Wales Got Talent', was coming to Dingley Dell. He was desperate to fill requirements for his T.V. show, so it seems.
Megan said she was going to do some magic tricks and ran off to look in the barn where she had stashed a box full of tricks. Then Anwen and Haf went off to practise their tap dancing on an old sink in the out-building where Mr Jones sometimes brews his beer. Cati said she would sing and surely get through to the finals. Grace disappeared into the farmhouse where we heard noises coming from the study where Mrs Jones also does her mending and sewing. Prrrrrrrrr prrrrrrr, thats what I heard and it wasn't no cat!.
Dingley Dell Village Hall was where the auditions were taking place. We couldn't all go as Farmer Jones would think rustlers had been if he came to check up on us. This would take some organising as Farmer Jones was in the wood just behind our field with Gyp the young pup who if you remember had taken Mrs Jones hand mirror and dumped it at the bottom of the field where the big thistle was, so she had.

The wood where Foxgloves grow.

Well now it seemed he was training her in the woods just beyond the bottom of our field. Something about truffles I had heard him saying to Mrs Jones. You dig them up once you've found them apparently. Although I like mine out of a chocolate box, see.
Anyway that's besides the point.
To get to the village we was hoping to use the trail in the woods where we have the most beautiful foxgloves growing (that's why the farm is called Foxglove Farm). It leads all the way down to the village. Eventually...I thought of a plan. Squeezing under the floppy bit of fence at the bottom of the field, like, and with a stone or two, a twig and elastic band converted into a catapult, some of the girls get ready to run. Next we spy Farmer Jones and Gyp and Haf gets a well aimed shot at Gyp, who yelps with surprise and tears off further into the woods with...guess who. Yes Farmer Jones. So all's clear and we hurriedly make our way down to the village hall. 
When us girls get there, Hercules was already doing his party bit. He was singing Mule Train, and every time he came to the whip noise in the song, he improvised by hitting himself over the head with an old metal tray ! Listen...
Mule train, yeah, yeah.
clippetty-clopping over hill and plain.
Seems as how they'll never stop.
Clippetty-clop, clippetty-clop, clippetty, clippetty,
clippetty, clippetty, clippetty-clopping along........and so on!
It made us giggle. I think he over did it because he almost knocked himself senseless so he did. Physco Simon hid his head in his hands and lamented, ' Get that stupid horse off NOW '.

Pointer a pointing 

Waiting for Chico to do......?

The Pilkingtons (who owned the adjoining farm to ours), well their dog a German Short Haired Pointer (gun dog to you and me), was buzzed off as he only pointed see. And little Chico the Chihuahua sort of froze...sitting on his cushion, so we didn't know what he was going to do. The 'twin' Shetland ponies sang about pulling a glass carriage for

Itsy & Bitsy

Cinderella, almost in tune. Then our Megan entered the stage with a fez on her head. She did some magic tricks but, Megan's tricks went all wrong just like that. We watched the acts as one by one they came onto the stage. Cati sang her little heart out but got buzzed off.
Anwin and Haf chickened out, sort of, think you call it 'stage fright'.
And then it was the turn for Grace to come on. Ahh, so that's what she was making, a beautiful pink tutu, and to our

Roses were thrown for an outstanding performance !

amazement she could dance and gave a very good rendition of 'The Sugar Plum Fairy'. Flowers were thrown onto the stage and the audience clapped loud and long.
'I'll let you know.' sighed Physo Simon.
Well we thought she was great! "That's amazing Grace." we all baa'rd. Well us sheep did anyway. Back home all of us girls related to the others what a grand time we had and Grace danced for the rest of the sheep until she fell down exhausted, so she did