HI Graeme me mate,and Danielle
I am going back to bed when I ad this tea and toast, MY shaking hands used to spill things out of the cup when I used to have tea and toast in bed so I decided to take that bedside cabinet out of the bedroom so I don’t walk over the white carpet spilling cocoa and stuff. I gotta get out of bed for a drink now.
A bit draconian but it worked in Columbus’s day when water was scarce they took the water barrel dipper up into the topmast shrouds and to get a drink one had to climb all the up there ,get the dipper (like a big ladle) and climb down
Dip one dipper full or water of half or whatever had been decided was the ration. for that day,. and then after a drink take the empty dipper it all the way back up.
Woe betide anyone passing a drinking ladle round, back it went when you’ve finished it and remember the officer of the watch had some midshipman told off to watch the procedure was carried out.
Anyway when I got the water meter bill I wrote to the water board and suggested if they put it up much more maybe they would like to go the whole party and take a dipper up onto my chimney top. for their much used drinking water, why do we get charged for using NEW FRESH drinking water when its about 200 customers down the line when we get it. They were somewhat careful with their reply pointing out that if I fell off the chimney they would feel the loss of a much valued customer. So someone there has a sense of humour, I suppose if you are selling second hand water you would need a humorous side to your nature
Would you pay new price for a “pre used car” :200 not so careful owners and full of farm chemicals and chlorine
NO! I figure the water in the indoors council swimming pool is more drinkable,
Well it would be if we had a weee free zone in the pool, or just one lane for the desperate and uncaring among us I’ve noticed that sometimes one of the group of “talkers not swimmers” which usually hangs on the splash rail like a perch full of damp wet buggies, chivying up and down the perch, one or two bobbing just within toe bouncing depth in order to chatters to some more fancied oldie of the opposing sex
They disappear off occasionally “for a length or two” which mysteriously will add up to the daily belief that they have swum “one hundred” of em, I believe this is a personal and enforced nature trip so to speak. Later they will climb out up the ladder ,demonstrating that the march of time on their lower regions has not been kind and cannot be hidden with lippy gloss and other means of hidden support however craftily tried. Im afraid the revengeful act of a wet cossie sold to some golden oldie is to show through all the slings and arrows that have first been slung up
under the tarpaulin thick cossie. That end of the pool is not a place to be just before contemplating dinner at the café, a rump steak will lose its appeal.
I say Opposing cos that is how I see it played out there, the sagging orrible bits of late anatomy are hidden beneath the waves so to speak and the visible bits are enhanced with huge costly amounts of lippy gloss eye liner and teeth that have drowned in a huge jug of water overnight with added chemicals, that bubble and snarl all night long ,as two large white pills dissolve the days grunge I personal would soak em in malt whisky taking note of ARISTOTOL
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“Malt does more than Milton can to justify gods ways to man”
That’s If i were myself needing these services , hardly likely since during my school days I had em mostly removed by various attempts to improve my fighting skills; and losing.. Constantly trying by never turning down a chance to practice this skill that evaded me for many years and proved the misnomer “that practice makes perfect”
Had I not grown a defensive fighting stance I would have run out teeth for my school chums and brothers to target, therefore losing them the will to go on hitting me in packs and taking me on one at a time.
Much of their pleasure would have been lost by this ploy though and some personal risk to themselves more than using the team game . You can imagine the scenario !”have you just our kid “ , YEA “ well im going to hit you now”! Try it then an ‘ll it you!.
Only later did I realize this remark was not the best I could have used in the circumstances’, bigger brother , built like a brick garage, obviously not suffer from food rationing .probably pinching his brothers grub in order to defend his bolshiness’ and stupidity. followed by his OTHER BIGGER sibling just to uneven the odds a bit. Of course they had not got time to wait awhile I fought one of them and then begin with the other, NO we’ll both fight you Pete together loke!. Wessies always say LOKE when they mean LIKE, it’s a wessie thing I expect.
Anyway being attacked by three now ; cos the first one wants revenge for his busted beak and the loss of a bit of gravy down the chin and shirt sleeve which he has used to wipe his leaking ;snitch another Wessie trait I believe, A practice I found makes ones shirt sleeve stiffen up a bit .and I only ad one shirt ; that been reserved for chapel and ruthlessly removed by mother as one retuned to the family nest so to speak
all this ;while my group of happy brothers would sit on the school wall swing their bare feet against the brickwork and shouting how I should av belted the little one harder in the first place but not climbing down of their acquired grandstand positions and giving me a hand in the uneven battle in the stated belief that “our Pete can take them Crawfords lads with one and behind his back mother ”, which did nothing to explain why a visit to Woolworths specs counter, like a pick and mix for spectacles, was now required so I could carry on with the dreaded music lessons tomorrow. well ive drunk me tea and eaten my cold toast.
So I will leave you both with this bloody and wet battlefield of my past with profound apologies to my right leg which has shown me this morning during the daily anointing, that in fact it is my left leg that took the blows so to speak and my right leg is still in reasonable fettle though somewhat swollen. Having done exactly the same mileage as the left leg .
Let me say that this is not the leg of my youth being travelled over much territory in the years but it is only damaged by time and not like the left one from receiving Arab or American ballistics, one can never be sure when our American cousins are assisting in the armed struggles of the world. They have a need to use the gun they were given by the President : however senile he has been; and shoot something : anything: as long as its something or someone. They will get a medal for discharging the weapon in battlefield conditions ,the success of that action is not on the citation, a patch on the sleeve marking them out as a sniper and a medal as big as a scrap yard weighing machine from where it should be donated.
I once in a fit of blood pressure after watching the news wrote to the white house suggesting it would greatly help the environment if all these medals were melted down for the scrap metal contained therein , to date I have had no reply they probable don’t have a department for answering comments from LIMEY BUMS our partners in crime around the world..
Get a bit better every day my little one, the lord is with you, his staff is offered to you with his blessing . I know you may not feel so at the moment but his ways are not ours or for us to be party to, but be assured whatever others may tell you he is with you all and loves you dearly.
Read the book of JOB in the St James bible, did he get some stick, and wasn’t a happy bunny with the Lord for allowing it , it turned out ok in the end.
I going to get dressed now the sun ,such as it is” over the yardarm” so bed may not be a good option I might just lay on top and read a book or somat.
Bye for now remember we are all still here for you and your family at ANYTIME.
Pete skipper
