(prompt: 'direction' 26/6/2020)

Careful scheduling found the happy event squeezed between a never-ending list of criminal offences; accompanying thieves, car-jackers, brawlers, wife beaters.

The useless flotsam and jetsam from the junk heap of life seemed to depressingly dominate the judge's every day, until a refreshing new direction happened—legalisation of an adoption.

The new parents were ecstatic—stars in their eyes obliterating the fact their babe was actually a leprechaun. The judge shuffled through departmental recommendations earned from the couple's lifetime of rescuing the unwanted—no doubt the explanation for their total indifference to the flowing beard of their newest 'babe'.