It would be highly unusual to find a seagull in a water tank after a cyclone, but even more unusual to find two seagulls, a Little Penguin and, if you looked very carefully, a ladybird in a water tank all together. Especially if, on one particular occasion, one also happened to find inside the water tank, a thong.

Now the thong is not the type you pull up, nor is it the type that may be attached to anything other than one’s foot, and this was a left-footed thong, that our friend Paul the Little Penguin, had flown on, surfed on, and landed on, quite speckily I might add, when he arrived inside the water tank.

It had been the safest place to be at the time he arrived, for when he arrived there had been a great deal of commotion going on. Ambrosia, whom he spotted almost immediately despite her size, was holding one little front leg up to her nose, Aargh was floating around in a circle swearing quite a lot, and Pepe was looking very embarrassed….