Every child took part and members of the PTA served refreshments afterwards. Extract from the Ragley School Logbook: Thursday, 20 December 1979 THE TURKEY WAS definitely limping. It hopped forward on its left leg and then dragged its right leg behind it. I peered out through the frozen windscreen of my car and stared at the strange scene. Jimmy Poole, his ginger curls hidden under a huge hand-knitted balaclava, had made a lead out of a length of orange baling twine and was guiding a limping turkey across the village green towards school. I decided to ask him about it later. It was Wednesday, 19 December, the day before our Christmas concert and a busy day was in store. In the entrance hall, Jo Hunter was in conversation with Mrs Audrey Bustard, mother of seven-year-old Harold. ‘ ’E’s a proper little angel is my ’Arold,’ announced Mrs Bustard proudly. ‘Ah’ve made ’im this pair o’ wings,’ and she handed over a pair of wings that would have looked more at home on Batman.
