The Blue Carbuncle: Covent Garden Market

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Blue Carbuncle
Title: Covent Garden Market (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

This year’s experiment of selling poultry in Covent Garden market will not be repeated.  The tendency of the live fowl to eat the fruit and vegetables belonging to other traders resulted in a number of arguments leading on occasion to unacceptable brawls.  The magistrates have therefore ruled that next year all poultry will again only be sold in Smithfield Market.

Comments

[debriswoman]

A sensible decision.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[debriswoman]

In fact, quite a sensible newspaper...
Do you run a Christmas goose club, by any chance?

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

As it happens, we do. Would you like to sign up for next Christmas.

[debriswoman]

Oh, please:-)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Turkeys do tend to gobble, of course ^^

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

And the smaller chickens were on the hunt for anything going cheap.

[debriswoman]

*rolls eyes*

[morelindo.livejournal.com]

Of all the preposterous things in BLUE, this one is probably my favourite. Thanks, that made me smile :)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I know, it's such an obvious thing to get wrong and no reason for it.

Delighted to have made you smile :)