Alice "seems to have a knack for persuading people to do stuff"

Like her job, presumably?

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I really can’t see why anyone would do anything for her other than put a bucket over her head.

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That wouldn’t work, o Fish: you of all people ought to realise that, that way, the water falls out.

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Not if she’s hanging upside down—though I suppose technically the bucket would then be under rather than over.

No matter, we’ll just have to fill it with something more viscous…

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Golden syrup mixed with rolled oats is fairly inclined to stay in place…

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Far too palatable, though. I was thinking of something more “second-hand” (Post- rather than pre-flapjack)

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Not if it’s frozen.

Just sayin’.

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But then one might just as well use a housebrick. Or indeed a flapjack. Or car jack. Or some tools picked up in the smithy. Shades of Mrs Joe.

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Nah, yer not gettin’ it, Gus. The head needs to be frozen into the bucket.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah,I see where you’re coming from, but unless you have access to industrial freezing units, not going to happen.

Whereas my less elegant solutions are readily achievable.

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I can get access to flash-freezing units. Plus, of course, a-la classic fiction whereby the ice later melts and no-one can work out how she died.

Let’s use sea water & do it in the Midlands. That’ll confuse Barnaby & Morse.

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You’re on, Armers.

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Costa Rican sea water.

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