The Busker

Like most towns and cities across the world, my town has it's fair share of buskers on the street.

The ones here are mostly guitar players, and none of them can play very well, but outside our store, for the last few Saturdays, we've had a violin player. This guy can really play and he's earning stacks of money, but it's not his violin playing that's making him successful, it's the fact that he's got a puppet of a devil strapped to his knee. All he has to do is jiggle his leg up and down and the devil dances in time to his fiddle. Of course, any little kid walking past loves him and Mum or Dad feels obliged to chuck a few coins in his hat. Quite frankly, he's coining it.

I asked him today if he's going to replace the devil with a Santa in the next few weeks.

"Naw," he replied. " Santas too nice, it'll have to be Scrooge!"

He's got a mean streak has that one, just like me....

I haven't put anything in his hat yet!