At the street party on Saturday we were just ambling along when we came across this pleasant, well-spoken, charismatic young man.
Imagine the scene… he is standing there holding a plastic glove aloft …
He tells us that he will put the glove on his head ….
Surely this pleasant young man can’t want to do anything quite so, well, silly? Well yes, he does and, not only that, he informs us that once the glove is upon his head he will inflate it using only his nostrils … and he does! Do you need super-hero lungs for this? Does it hurt? Well he keeps on inflating the glove until it explodes with an almighty bang, leaving a puny elastic band around his neck.
Thankfully the shock of that has made him realise he must be sensible now as he has picked up a tennis racquet. He must be about to do something much less crazy …. balance it on his chin whilst uni-cycling perhaps?
OH NO – he is going to put his whole body through it! Yikes! Looking at him I really don’t think he is going to be able to do this one. There must be a catch. Er, but there isn’t. He throws one arm into the air and kind of holds it in a frightening position, with it swinging loosely and aimlessly and then the squeezing and writhing begins. At one point (possibly this one) he announces “Congratulations, it’s a boy!”
Like this lady, I can hardly bear to watch him …
He seems to be quite calm about the whole thing and is not phased by the heckling of this young man … At the point where he has the racquet around his waist, I am panicking … what if he can’t get it off?
Needless to say, he gets out of it, with a bit of pushing, adjustment and squirming … and then is ready for his next feat – aided and abetted by Oscar, a young onlooker from the crowd…
Helped by two sturdy men, Tom mounts the unicycle and pleads with Oscar to throw him the juggling club … only Oscar is really quite small and has to make several repeated attempts to fling it into the air high enough.
At last he does it and, after much tension and hilarity, Tom is juggling on a uni-cycle (on a slope!) amidst a completely enthralled crowd.
… including this small corner spotted this morning.
