I’m early today and totally on the ball after last weeks indiscretion so thank you to Rochelle for being so understanding and not giving me 100 lines; I can only manage 100 words, once a week on a Friday!
Also thanks to Ronda del Boccio (what a fantastic name) for this evocative picture. So with out further ado I will say
On my marks…
Get set…
GO!!!
A piper’s house is nowhere for a person with a propensity for tinnitus to live. Tom-Tom’s father’s piping was awful, so was it any wonder he was driven to a life of clandestine nocturnal husbandry.
He saw himself as a kind of Porcine Robin Hood; in the duskiness he would plunder the pigs, steal away into the woods and release them one by one into the gloaming.
Home beatings were harshly habitual but to hear the pigs snuffling and truffling in the forests was some consolation.
Local police couldn’t patch the Piping and Pignaps together, Tom was so sagaciously sapient.
Ha!! 100 words on the nose, I’m pleased with this one, and the alliteration abound! Hope you all enjoy it, see if you can guess which nursery rhyme I have bastardised today.
The Count Of North Clifton 
Tom-Tom might think it’s okay, but no crime is victimless – think of all the confused pig farmers! 🙂
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It’s the piping, made Tom Tom do odd things!!
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Dear Shrawley,
You made me dig for this one. I couldn’t for the life of me connect this with nursery rhyme. Good ole Wikipedia led me down path and to the village square with the Piper’s son and pig thief. I’ve had a good wallow now and feel much better. Fun stuff. Oink means good job in Pig Latin. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Pig Latin, we call it Platin to save time!!😉
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I may misremember, but doesn’t it go “Tom was beat and the pig was eat”? I believe the snuffling and truffling is covering up a feast
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He changed the future, released the pigs allowing them to do what they liked but still recieved a beating, what price freedom?
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Better that Tom-Tom be a porcine liberator than to go a peepin. The pigs saved his life!
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Maybe he does both?! I hadn’t thought of that!
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So that explains Tom-Tom. It all makes sense now 🙂
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Nocturnal pig-plundering. Quite a pastime!
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Bad music can make one do great things! 😉
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I’d almost forgotten that nursery rhyme.
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Hopefully rekindled your interest!!
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You captured the spirit of a fairy tale. Fun read.
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Well thank you very much, all of my FF are bastardised fairy tales or children’s stories, some better than others!! They’re on my blog somewhere if you search hard enough, the first was about may or June last year I think!
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I love the wordplay and alliterations.
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Cheers, enjoyed doing it!!
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Amazing alliteration 🙂
By the way, did you see all the videos on Facebook this week about the Silly Walk parades?
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Great fun to read, but I have no idea which nursery rhyme this refers to! 🙂
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Tom Tom the pipers son ….
Google it!
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Like Rochelle, I had to resort to Google for this one.
But of course, Shrawls, you did more than wonderfully well!
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Thanks Dale, I’m finding it harder and harder to source these damn rhymes! Thanks for reading and here’s to the weekend!! Berlin bound for me!!
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Well then… you are allowed to change genres, you know 😉
Have fun in Berlin!
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My mind is empty and I have a void of ideas
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Hah! I highly doubt it… you can always move into Disney stories 😉
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That’s a good plan, if I do you will get the credit
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Nah… it’ll be all yours! Only you can do what you do so well!
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Tom Tom’s father would release pigs in the woods. Were pigs better off in the woods compared to their owners?
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Tom-Tom the Piper’s Son, you took his tale and away you did run!
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HA! Cheers, thanks for that
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Hilarious. I know the rhyme well, and I prefer your version. Tom-Tom as a hero, not a thief. Great wordplay too.
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thank you, sorry for not replying sooner I’ve been away!
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Reminds me of two local pigs that got away from the slaughter house twice. They gain the freedom to live out their life. I enjoy how you turn rhymes up side down
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thank you very much, i think i remember the story of the escaping pigs, a few years ago now i think
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