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
If you ever considered starting another blog, then maybe, 'The Flip-side of Fran'?
ReplyDeleteYes, Martin - the flip-side of flippant Fran. I do like a bit of affliperation.
ReplyDeleteGood words.
ReplyDeleteThe human herd gets it's priorities very wrong sometimes.
You are ace!
ReplyDeleteOn my way over there to take a look.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Charlotte. I like your phrase 'the human herd'. Says it all!
ReplyDeleteBB - thank you kindly. I value your opinion.
Alan - have a good journey!
That's lovely, Fran. Says it all, really. In this week's Times there was a two-page spread of the terrible famine, followed by a page devoted to the woman (who earns millions herself) who "needs" $65,000 dollars a month in her divorce settlement for chauffeurs for her one child, manicures, pedicures, clothes...It makes you weep.
ReplyDeleteYes... progress is moot point when people are still starving due to abject poverty.
ReplyDeleteOff to check it out!
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