Cow Island

'Which is why there's never been a better time to get into diesel powered chickens,' said Cyril. 'I'm in!' mooed Annie and she did a little dance and two of her hats fell off. 'So how much would you like to invest?' asked Cyril as he helped to put the hats back on. Annie thought VERY hard. 'Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....this much!' she replied and held hers hooves apart. 'Tell you what,' said Cyril, 'come in for twice that and I'll throw in 5,000 copies of String World for free.' 'Yippee!' shouted Annie and two of her hats fell off. 'That keeps happening!' she said. 'So it does,' agreed Cyril as he put them back on again. 'Perhaps I should nail them on?' 'Possibly,' replied Cyril and he was just about to explain rather more about motorised chickens in general and a start up venture with solar powered Buff Orpingtons when Norma arrived. 'Oh

'Oh go on!' pleaded Captain Bill. 'Sign up now and get issue one for free!' 'Hmmmmm,' said Norma. 'Rope Monthly,' continued Captain Bill, 'for all your monthly rope news and information ...would make an ideal Christmas present!' 'But Christmas has gone!' replied Norma. 'New Year then!'  'I can't think of anyone that I could give one to as a present.' 'Horace?' 'Is there any poetry in it?' 'There's a crossword.' 'That's not the same thing at all.' 'And it incorporates String World,' added Captain Bill. 'That never really took off for you did it?' said Norma. 'I had a problem with the distributor,' replied Captain Bill. 'Did you ever get any money back from Cyril?' 'My legal team advised against taking any action.' 'And your legal team consisted of...?' asked Norma. 'Cyril!' replied Capta