Thanks to Rochelle, the wonderful, for hosting this menagerie of misfits, from what I’ve read anyway! There are some superbly talented people playing this game, and I really don’t know if I can keep up, but read, read and read as many as you can, I think I did about 50 last week, the rule of 10; (10 before yours, 10 after didn’t work as so many folk have so much to offer and it’s only another couple of minutes, that’s what I tell Mrs T anyway when I’m meant to be going to bed!)
Thanks to Prior for allowing the FF crew to interpret your photograph, it’s a belter this week and I had a thought as soon as I saw it, which i’m going to run with so here goes.
Polly was working her tits off to make the “Tealicious Cafe” a success, but “that Bitch” was contriving to cause chaos; thwarting her efforts.
Polly would set the kettle to boil and come out to dress the silver trays; a doily, cups some milk and a treasury of biscuits; Jammy Dodgers, Custard Creams, Malted Milk, Jaffa Cakes.
Sukey, would switch off the kettle, pour the tea pot, Polly would then serve, pouring tepid tea to the customers. The partnership was on a knife edge.
“When did a Jaffa Cake become a fucking biscuit?” Sukey hissed, swapping them for Pink Wafers.
There we are, 100 words exactly! Hope you all like it!
The Count Of North Clifton 
A glimpse behind the innocent children’s rhyme. They only stay together because they wouldn’t have a career on their own!
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I think you’re right Iain, they are a sum of their parts and apart they are useless.
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Oh, Mr. T (since you mention a Mrs. T… one can assume…)!
First of all… you caved and here you are on a Wednesday!
Second of all… I am still laughing at this wonderful take.. Oh man. You have made later afternoon.
Good for you, on reading 50 of them. I almost always read them all… then slowly drop those who don’t participate, either by even responding to comments, or bothering to read mine… I give them a few weeks..
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There is a Mrs T, she is at an aromatherapy evening tonight with a load of ladies all armed with bottles of wine. I said I’d pick her up, but wasn’t expecting it to be this late, on a school night!! She’s going to be trouble!!
Thanks for reading
Just as I thought, she’s just called me to pick her up 10;54 pm!!
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I was just noting because there is no reference to your real name anywhere, and this is the first time we even have a clue of one of your initials 😉
Fun story, as per…
Off you go then! Wild woman that she is…
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I try to keep it anonymous due to my company being vigilante over social media, I don’t want my name to be searchable, you can call me DT if you want!!
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No worries. I totally respect that. To us, you’re Shrawley!
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Ha!! Okay dokay
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Polly put the kettle on, thank for the memory recall.
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No probs!!
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I had to read it twice before I got the clever reference
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Clever reference? The nursery rhyme bastardised? That’s how I fly on the FF’s!!
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Not exactly the best working relationship. But then, neither was the nursery rhyme.
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Polly and Sukey, an age-old “partnership”! I haven’t had a Jammy Dodger in years, maybe I’ll just pop to Tesco 🙂
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The description of biscuits made me hungry.
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Get stuck in!!
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Jammy Dodgers with tea, nice. I think Polly needs to relax a bit, they’ve all gone away.
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I hear the word “Fired” very loudly… of course, if it’s her ‘other’ personality there may be some difficulty in that. Good writing! 🙂
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That’s a good point, do you ever see them in the same room together?!
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Oh, I hope not… can you imagine what would happen…LOL!
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Well I’m afraid that the nursery rhyme was lost on me, but I did enjoy your story. I like that you placed the facts there and let the reader figure things out. I shall listen to the nursery rhyme now…something new to the repertoire. 🙂
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Give it one listen, then put on something else, maybe Uncertain Smile by The The, that’s a splendid song
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Well, this just goes to show how much time a person can lose on youtube. I’ve listened to the nursery rhyme and then four different versions of Uncertain Smile. I am probably a heretic but I liked the one on the Jools Holland show the best. It was pared down and extremely listenable. Thanks! 🙂
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That’s my funeral song! Just to lighten the mood!
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Erm. Sure. That lightens the mood right up. And completely understandable as a funeral song……erm….but no.
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Ah, the great Jaffa Cake debate! Nice one
Click to read my FriFic tale!
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Dear Shrawley (Yeah, that works for me. 😉 )
Once more you’ve taken a child’s nursery rhyme and turned it into something else. You had me falling off my chair. And look at you. Number 37 this week! Love it. And my regards to the longsuffering Mrs. T. My husband can certainly feel her pain. 😉 Bravo on your story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Oh Mr T
You had me cackling at your line about Jaffa Cakes. The animosity evoked by such an innocent comestible! Wonderful!
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Thank you Penny, I slept on it before I wrote it and dreamt of biscuits
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Polly put the kettle on, we’ll all have tea 🙂
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Cold tea!!
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Now I feel like a few biscuits! Great job!
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Thanks, biscuits good!!!
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I never dreamt that Polly might be serving cold tea. Very amusing.
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They’ve been at each other for years!
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Love this retelling of the old song. Most successful businesses have a bit of friction behind the scenes to help them keep their edge!
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Alas I had missed the reference to the Nursery Rhyme… but thanks to the comment I could find it… excellent way to find a story… methinks the business partnership is going south,
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I knew what you were doing straight away because that is what you do and I loved it. There is so much tension I reckon the kettle itself might explode with frustration. Brilliant. Such fun!!!
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Thanks so much! It means a lot, this one came pretty quickly, most don’t!
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Haha this is brilliant! I always had a feeling that Sukey was a right cow!
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Absolutely right, constantly making Polly’s working life a misery
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I love Jaffa Cakes! That was a fun read. 🙂
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Thanks, each week I try to bastardise a children’s nursery character, written like that it sounds awful, but as Stuart Lee would say,”It’s just a joke!”
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