Lord Clarence Blunderbuss was a hard man who, due to his parents’ inflexible nature, filled the lake with cement and allocated 20% of the manor budget to eliminating the geese who lived around the edge of the shore.

Downton Abbey was built in 984 by Clovis Blunderbuss, the barbarian king who pacified the region of Sureshirecire by chopping off heads and hanging things from spikes.  Clovis’ third wife decided that her husband should get good with the Lord, and build a nice and godly summer home on the shore of Blood Lake.  Downton Abbey was constructed in just under 77 years, and although that was a good pace, Clovis never saw the manor in it’s wonder and glory, having been chopped into pieces by Viking raiders and fed to chickens. 

The Abbey anchored the quaint English town of Little Englandtown for 1000 years.  900 years in however, the geese at Loch Bloomers ruined the annual Summer Solstice Festival and Lord Clarence destroyed the lake to save face for his wife Jemima.  It’s a complicated story involving a May pole, a thunderstorm,  a baker’s dozen of lady fingers, and a standard dozen of lady’s underpants, but the resulting spectacle involved a flock of geese dressed in lace and defecating into the Solstice Feast.  Also, Jemima became barren as a result, and the proud blunderbuss line was eliminated.

In the 100 years since, the concrete lake became home to England’s first basketball court.  It is also a favorite spot of local artists to paint still life, and capture the majestic image of the courts standing tall, outlined in shadow against the setting English sun, much like that scene in Joe vs. The Volcano.  Here he find Sir Barty Monster painting, and Vivienne St. Loopy who has undertaken a constitutional along the shores of the basketball court and encountered young Mister Monster.