'Red Alert'

Just back from a few days wandering round Affric with the tent and Paddy and Smudge (piccies to come). One of the highlights, though whether you could call it such, was the fact that rutting season is full underway with huge numbers of red deer stags blerting dawn and dusk ... that however had side effects of sleepless nights, not nescessarily caused by the stags but by something else .... (think Red Balloon Song :))

 

... 'You and I in a little old tent

Having kibble and a dash of milk

Ready for bed with my warm coat on

Snuggle down on my bubblewrap

Till one by one my eyes were closed

Back of my head, bugs in the software

Flash the message: "Something's out there!"

Thundering across the mountain side

Ninety-nine red deer go by

 

Panic bells, it's RED ALERT!

There's something there from somewhere else

The war machine springs to life

Opens up two eager eyes

Focusing it on the mountainside

Where ninety-nine red deer go by

 

Ninety-nine decision street

Ninety-nine brain cells meet

To worry, worry, super scurry

Call the troops out in a hurry

This is what we've waited for

This is it, boys, this is war

My Dad is now online too

As ninety-nine red deer go by

 

There's one eager pup with advid soul

A super duper jet dogo

Everyone's superhero

Everyone's Captain Smudge

With orders to 'Lie Down!'

To 'Stay and Wait' and 'Get Back Here!'

Scramble out in midnight skies

As Ninety-nine red deer go by

 

Ninety-nine dreams I have had

In every one, a red deero

It's all over and I'm standing pretty

In this dust that's on the end of my lead

If I could only go beyond

Just to prove my heart was true

And there find the red deero

Then I think of you, and let them go ......'

Done