Ben Cottam (@TheCottam) posted this statement on Twitter today: 'When you're growing up, no one ever tells you how much of your adult life will be spent pushing tumbling Tupperware into cupboards.' I know, right? Why does no one say? And what else does no one tell you about adult life, particularly later adult life? I have made a list. 1. That one day you will say, 'They'll freeze, dressed like that,' and 'Let's go home. It's nearly 10pm,' and think nothing of it. 2. That a summer will come when you will start the days dressed in cardigan and socks and only take them off when it's warm enough to leave the kitchen door open. 3. That police officers, teachers and nurses, rather than getting older, get younger, birthday by birthday, and that one day you will be burgled and then visited by a seven year old with a notebook and a helmet. 4. That the music in pubs and clubs becomes louder, brasher and more sweary, year on year, so that
Guten jour, come esta you
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ReplyDeleteHah!
ReplyDeleteGreetings!
ReplyDeleteLane - I don't speak whatever language that is, but I hope it means, 'There'll be a cheque in the post for a million quid tomorrow morning.'
ReplyDeleteDeborah - ...................... (beat you)
ReplyDeleteSharon - Indeed!
ReplyDeleteMartin - Konnichiwa (Japanese - are you impressed?)
ReplyDeleteSilence is supposed to be golden, but single words are purgatory - where have all your others gone? Here's to verbal diarrhoea, says I! x
ReplyDeleteSo you got the free Guardian booklet of rudimentary Japanese too, did you?
ReplyDeleteI have to say, jinksy, I guess I'd rather have verbal diarrhoea than any other type ... mind you, with the number of liquorice allsorts I've eaten today, who knows?
ReplyDeleteLizzie Love - no, I didn't, though I wish I'd known about it. Daughter at uni studying Japanese. Husband at home studying Japanese. I only know the one word. Not that I feel inadequate or anything ...
ReplyDeleteHey guys - I'm loving this string of comments on my one-word blog post. It appeals to the sense of the ridiculous in me (which seems to be my dominant feature ... something went wrong there).
ReplyDeleteBut your sense of ridiculous is why we're all here in the first place! Well, speaking for myself, at least.
ReplyDeleteDeborah - thanks so much! Stay around then. I can't see things getting sensible anytime soon.
ReplyDelete"Far too short. 's not fair!" said Moptop darkly ...
ReplyDelete"Goodness, I'm glad you turned around before they snapped your photo, Moptop" said Lesley brightly ...
ReplyDelete(tee hee - just keeping the ridiculous string going)
Let idiocy rule! It's irresistible - just like liquorice allsorts...
ReplyDeleteMoptop - 'Sorry about the shortness of it,' she said, briefly.
ReplyDeleteLesley - that's right, just keep it going. It's what makes the world go round.
Jinksy - let it rule, yay! Man the barricades. Hoist the mainsail.
Hi-gher!
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