An Excitement of Winners!!

little no-name and Priceless Deliver the Goods

A relief of winners, a startle of winners, a glee of winners ….. the collective adjectives of animate objects really has no limits.

My ‘husk’ of grey hares are now fast asleep after sprinting the whole way to the finish line in the biggest race of their lives and I don’t want to disturb them so I asked around for helpers in choosing the two winners of my Grey Hare Card give-away.

Priceless piped up to say he would love to help me and immediately got busy with tearing the names out. Thank goodness as this saved me about 20 minutes work.

When they were all done he called me over and we were about to start scrunching them into tiny balls when I noticed something strange. Priceless looked at me warily, smiling wanly.

It was then I realised that 10 names had to be disqualified! Scrawled in large, unfamiliar rabbity-writing were the names Priceless (five times!) Arabella (three times!) and Wesley (two times!) tsk tsk !!

This was to be a fair draw!!
Priceless was already behind the rabbit treat-ball busying himself with the ball scrunching.

163 scrunched lumps later and we were ready for the stars of the show – Arabella and Wesley – to choose a winner each!

I had it all planned out, but - it was not to be!

Arabella, on seeing the huge blue egg shaped ball with the chunk of organic oatcake on top, immediately attacked it! Then she ran off, furious, that her rest time had been invaded. (I gave her the chunk of oatcake to pacify her).

So I carried the ball thru to Wesley, and he just ignored it.

He had a blocked nose and was having a hard time breathing properly and couldn’t smell the oatcake – his favourite treat!. So I gave him a cuddle, and the oatcake, and tucked him in.

I was wondering who could help me choose the names. I had no idea where Priceless had gone either. After the last lump had been put inside he had disappeared. Strange.

Then I heard a small noise. It was Arabella's toy bunny little no-name calling me. No-name wanted to do the choosing and I was delighted!

The ball is a heavy thing but little no-name managed to give it a shove with the nose.

It rocked back and fro wildly and

a tiny ball flew out! We had our first winner!!

...but not only that –there was Priceless being rocked around in the lumps!

No-name dashed over to the lump and stretched it open.

Then with another shove and more shoogling another bit flew out! (Priceless wasn’t impressed – he had been having a doze and was now trying to get out of the ball.)

Quickly no-name ran to the second lump and pulled it open aswell!! How exciting!

Arabella wanted no part of this ‘fun’ and was fast asleep, digesting her morsel of oatcake.
Ooops, I nearly forgot! – the winners are ..…. at the end of this link ……

Many thanks to all the participants! The house is now filled with lots of tiny snoozing noises…….