Cow Island

'Do you think he'll be OK?' asked Captain Bill. 'He's big enough to take care of himself,' replied Bertha. 'Must have been a shock though,' said Captain Bill. 'You can see he's upset.' 'It's very kind of you,' gasped Horace, 'but I'll be fine.' 'Actually we were talking about Cyril,' replied Bertha. 'Annie beat him to the cupcake!' 'Oh my!' muttered Horace and he turned a little pale. 'You know...I think he might have let her,' suggested Norma. Everyone looked at Norma. 'Well it's possible!' she mooed. 'Anyway if we could return to things closer to hoof. I think we've got more important things to concentrate on.' 'True,' said Bertha. 'Indeed,' agreed Captain Bill, 'we aught to get our priorities right...........where did you find it?' 'I meant about Horace!' said Norma. 'Oh right,' replied Captain...

'So what's the hold up?' asked Bertha. 'He's just finishing a sonnet,' replied Norma. 'Now?' asked Bertha. 'It just came to him,' replied Norma. 'He won't be a minute.' 'Well actually!' called up Horace. 'He won't be long,' repeated Norma. Bertha ran up to the top of the rise and back again. 'Geraldine can't hold him much longer. He can smell the icing already,' she pointed out. 'A minute, two at the most,' said Norma with a smile. 'Perhaps I could be of more use back there?' suggested Captain Bill. 'You stay just where you are!' mooed Bertha. 'Can I remind you who's captain,' said Captain Bill. 'I could soon make some more confetti,' replied Bertha. 'Oooooooooooooh!' said Annie. 'Is there going to be another wedding? Could I be best man? Does Captain Eyepatch have to divorce the tree first? Only they've not been t...

'And so,' said Bertha,'we place a warped twisty plank on the ramp like this and then Cyril rolls down the ramp thus flattening and straightening the plank and then collects his reward, of one little cake, when he gets to the bottom. I got the idea from when he was skiing.' 'Interesting!' said Captain Bill,'but surely you've placed the cake too close to the end of the ramp, Cyril forward momentum will simply result in him rolling over that as well!' 'Well now,' replied Bertha,'that's where it gets really interesting. By varying the distance and angle of the cake to the ramp we can dramatically increase the difficulty rating.' 'Ahem!' interrupted Cyril,'if I might enquire as to the icing?' Bertha consulted her record sheet. 'This will be number 37, so that makes it lemon and ginger,' she replied. 'And the wind speed?' asked Cyril. '7mph, East and West,' said Bertha. 'In which case,' sa...