salmi galva (un kajas) - stuffed with straw

Having surprised Tante Stinky and cousin Aka with a flying visit to Flanders fields, Mudzuks and Papuks were themselves surprised to return to Blighty and find the place had been taken over by a bunch of stuffed shirts - not Gordon Brown's new cabinet, but surely the highest concentration of scarecrows that the crow population of England has ever had the misfortune to come across. That's right, it was the Tollertonian scarecrow festival (or something like that).

There were construction workers...


































and potato/grass-heads...





















and scottish widows....




















and pirates of the midlands...(is that a telescope in your pocket or are you just looking for something?)




















and their erstwhile pursuers...















and broom jockeys (?!)















and one scarecrow unwisely taking a bath















...and, oops, this one must have slipped in by accident...




















Needless to say, there were no people. Weird.