The Therapy Zone

No.6...... Doing As The Caveman Did!

    I have found it quite curious how easily No.6 is able to fell a fully grown tree out in the woods during The Chimes of Big Ben, with a stone axe of all things! And more, because once the tree has been felled the trunk has to be cleared of all branches, and then to set about carving out the hull of the boat out of the trunk with a stone chisel!! No.6 might have said to No.2 "I'm doing as the caveman did, I've made my own tools." That's as maybe, but the caveman used tools crafted out of flint, not stone. No one is actually going to chop a tree down using a stone axe, realistically it would take forever, if you didn't break your back first that is. And look at No.6's hands, not a sigh of any calluses on his hands, and there should have been. And any such broken skin should have been wrapped up in cloth or bandage.

    As for actually taking to sea aboard that rickety, un-seaworthy craft, was just as much a leap of faith as it was when No.6 put out to sea aboard his raft during Many Happy Returns, because No.6 had no idea where the village was, well he knew it wasn't on the Baltic, but he could have been setting sail for anywhere. But then perhaps anywhere was more preferable to that of the village.

Curiosity Killed The Cat!

     During the episode Many Happy Returns No.6 constructs a raft and sets out to sea upon it to escape the village. As the village appears to be completely deserted the only creature on hand to see No.6 off is the village cat. A singular and quite curious moment indeed in this episode, as the question arises as to how a cat is able to break both the cup and saucer set upon the table next to the cat as watches No.6 who is about to launch his raft. Trouble is there was not a soul about at the time, save for the cat and No.6, and we know No.6 didn't smash the cup and saucer, although he's upset one or two in his time. Soon that evidence it really does only leave the cat!

    What is even more curious, it that as No.6 floats down to the beach below, having been ejected from the Gloster Meteor jet aircraft, that very same black village cat seems to be waiting the arrival of No.6. Its even sat on that table amid the broken pieces of crockery! 

    Really, I cannot believe that the village cat has been sat upon that table all the time No.6 has been away from the village, sat there simply awaiting his return. Other than that it can only question how it was that the creature knew that No.6 was on his return. But that would be impossible wouldn't it. So someone would have had to physically place the cat upon the table, and the broken crockery too.....I wonder!!!

   And whose cat was it? Mrs Butterworth’s, or No.2 of ‘Dance of the Dead,’ who said it was her cat.

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