Thing were now looking black for Spode (and we don't just mean his shorts). There was nothing to do but 'fight it out' with the few troops left under his command. But his intended "glorious last stand" was interrupted by the sound of rapidly descending Anglican shells:
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| "Steady men!" Spode resolves to sell his life dearly in the cause... |
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| ...until a well aimed Anglican barrage blows up his "Spodemobile" and sends him flying into the roadway. Has Spode met his end? The last of the BUF Armour (homemade) is tasked to investigate... |
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| as Spode (bottom right) remains insensible to the clattering tracks.... |
LATE NEWS : Spode is most definitely not dead. While the above battlefield pictures suggest he came close to meeting his maker, Spode's PR men have put out that he was merely "feigning injury" (his enemies, of course, have suggested he was instead lying in the roadway, kicking and screaming, in the middle of a 'childish tantrum'). There is no doubt, however, that Spode has retired to Leominster itself, and re-started his 'speaking tour' of Herefordshire:
while the Bishop of Lichfield, victor of the battle, has the luxury of surveying the scene of his triumph:
On to the Spring Big Game 2022 ("Assault on Leominster")!
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