Musical Mice 1st half.

"Hallo dear, do come in. Make yourself comfortable while I make a pot of tea. I've even got some biscuits, assorted ones! So you are the reporter from the Mouse Times come to do an interview about our group "The Musical Mice." I do hope that you have a photographer. I had my hair done on purpose at Salon Mouse yesterday so
I'd look my best. I think it looks rather nice, don't you? He's coming later is he?

What would you like to know dear? By the way, I'm Marcia, lead singer, producer, arranger, booker of concerts, everything. Someone had to take them in hand or they'd be totally disorganised. I'll get the tea, please make yourself at home.

Right, here I am. How did we start? That's easy. The world crisis dear. Everyone is suffering from it one way or the other and we were no exception. We were a band of mice living in the basement of a big house. Up until the crisis the portions of cheese left for us were quite a generous size. Mind you, you had to be careful how you took it, nasty accidents have happened in the past. Suddenly the pieces of cheese became so small you needed a magnifying glass to find them. Other pickings disappeared too. No more cake crumbs fell through the cracks in the floor, no more anything, really. I decided something had to be done!

You may have noticed that mice tend to squeak as they move about. Some squeak high, some squeak low. It gave me the idea that we could form a musical group. We could hire ourselves out for gigs, and functions, get a disc cut, appear on variety shows on the Mouse TV Channels, in other words, become famous!