Day Twelve
Listen slurry head,
You have ruined our lives.
The twelve maidens dancing turned up last night and beat the living daylights out of the eight maids-a-milking, ‘cos they found them carrying on with the eleven Lords-a-leaping.
Meanwhile, the swans got out of the living-room, where they'd been hiding since the big battle, and savaged hell out of the Lords and all the Maids.
There were eight ambulances here last night, and the local Civil Defence as well.
The mother is in a home for the bewildered and I'm sitting here, up to my neck in birds' droppings, empty whiskey and Valium bottles, birds' blood and feathers, while the flaming cows eat the leaves off the pear-tree.
I'm a broken man.
(Christmas Countdown, 1982)
The song 'Twelve Days of Christmas' is an English Christmas carol first published in 1780 in England.
The standard tune now associated with the song is derived from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin.
In 1982, actor Frank Kelly released a single 'Christmas Countdown', which was a comedy song based on the well-known carol. The song reached number 8 in the Irish charts.
The Cache
The cache is hidden in Rathmichael Woods. Please be stealthy as you're close to the trail here.