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The number called was: N41

My card and prompt was:
Economy: Redistribution

Gatherers and Sharers

"Even in the Shire there are some as like minding other folk's business and talking big."
Robin Smallburrow, “The Scouring of the Shire”, RotK

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“There’s a few carrots and some good onions,” said Gaffer Goodchild, “and a sack of parsnips behind the hedge. I daresay your Marigold’ll find a use for ’em in her kitchen.”

“She will that,” said Daddy Brown.

Little Robin Noakes, ears flapping, trotted down the lane.

“Give her a minute,” muttered Daddy Brown, but it was half that before Asphodel Bracegirdle, cape flapping, came bustling up. “Now Gaffer,” she said, “what’s this I hear? The Rules say it’s best if we gather and share.”

“Daresay you’re right there, missus,” said the Gaffer. He hadn’t mentioned the taters in the shed.

Date: 2012-03-08 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Good for Gaffer Goodchild!

Date: 2012-03-08 09:33 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-03-09 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aliana1.livejournal.com
Hee! How very hobbity. Well done.

Date: 2012-03-09 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
Mmm, potatoes!

The Scouring of the Shire always makes me think of Carrie's War even more than the immediate connection of troubled small community in which events play out against the backdrop of the world-shattering ones.

Date: 2012-03-09 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! :-)

Date: 2012-03-09 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Om nom nom...

I hadn't thought of connections with Carrie's War. The first part of the chapter is very funny, when Our Heroes are taking the piss out of the Shirriffs, but then it rapidly becomes very sad.

Date: 2012-03-09 06:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
I think it might be to do with loss of innocence and relationships to home, that home and travellers have both irrecvoably changed, as well. Thank you for writing and provoking FI-COAT thoughts, which makes me happy, as do secret stashes of potatoes - good for the Gaffer. May his vegetables proliferate, and be shared out of the shadow of Rules!

Date: 2012-03-11 11:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
secret stashes of potatoes

A most happy-making thought!

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