A member of the Little Darwin team went along to a family Christmas party and behaved like a glutton when the help yourself spread was uncovered : pork, ham, turkey, a variety of salads, tasty condiments. He piled a plate as high as an elephant's eye , and sat in a chair chomping away , salivating.
Earlier in the day , a three year old great- granddaughter , wearing a bright party dress and large ribbons, dancing about on her dainty toes , had been playing with a bubble gun she got from Santa , spraying the house with a barrage.
Her brother, five, emerged from a bedroom , where he had been sleeping, and instantly tried to disarm his sister , take over the beaut shooting iron .
She refused to part with the bubble gun . He was given a kind of bubble fluid filled container with something like a wand which when withdrawn and waved about unleashed a shower of bubbles .
Eventually, he was given his sister's bubble gun and became so trigger happy he was ordered to go outside and play with it because the floor was becoming wet and slippery .
By this stage , our glutton was well into his second plate of tucker , even thinking of going back for thirds .
While he was munching away , the bubble gun , running hot by now, seemed to jam or run out of bubbles .
Keen to reload as soon as posible, the youngster sought the urgent help of our munching man to reload the weapon.
In the hurried process, bubble gun fluid was accidently poured onto the part consumed second dinner plate serving of succulent food. To have continued eating it would have turned him into the guy who used to sing he was forever blowing bubbles .
Anyway, our burping glutton went home with a large bag of viands and gifts which included soap ( not to be eaten ) , a Mona Lisa shopping bag ,Thunderbox, a book of poems by Graham Rushworth in which Curlews , Magnetic Island , a warning against taking ice and the outback dunny are mentioned , plus Mindless, a colouring in book for every political tragic by cartoonist David Rowe-bought from an op shop by a member of royalty.
