This story is available in the "Season One" collection FLIGHT (The Owl Wood) - ASIN B00GC5C0DW.Fourth in the Owl Wood series. A salty volume telling of the dodgy social interactions of the two feral ninja hens Rosemary & Fenugreek, a pheasant called Eric and with an above-average IQ, an RAF Wing Commander goose near retirement age and the inimitable gourmand dog Pipsqueak. Reality briefly takes a back seat, just as it once did in similar circumstances back in Poonah in '43... moreThis story is available in the "Season One" collection FLIGHT (The Owl Wood) - ASIN B00GC5C0DW.Fourth in the Owl Wood series. A salty volume telling of the dodgy social interactions of the two feral ninja hens Rosemary & Fenugreek, a pheasant called Eric and with an above-average IQ, an RAF Wing Commander goose near retirement age and the inimitable gourmand dog Pipsqueak. Reality briefly takes a back seat, just as it once did in similar circumstances back in Poonah in '43.13,750½ words, roughly speaking, or some such similar figure, and suitable for human ages 0 - 108. No sex, blooming little in the way of violence (mayhap the odd clip around the ear) and cussing limited to nothing that would make a vicar blush or break out in genuflections. Not the vicars I know, anyway.This "the plot" then, such as it is, briefly thickens towards the middle of the story but is then swept aside in favour of dealing with the re-appearance of Amelia Earhart, of the USS Cyclops and the remains of Elvis - plus the urgent need to find a chip shop that is still open for lunch. The fog mentioned in the title and text, in a rather cunning literary manoeuvre, is fog.As near blathering stuff and nonsense as you can get from the electrical interweb without an Idiot Licence. If this short story were a wine it would be suitable for laying down and avoiding. If it were a car you'd put a rug over it and leave it in a barn somewhere to sleep. Splendid nonsense. less
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