sweet effay

As somebody who was brought up to believe that the only area of civilization in this country is contained within the borders of London, with a possible exception being made for Brighton, and that the only really civilized people dwell to the South of the Thames, I am often asked how I manage to stand it up here. Well it's because when it's hot, you can hang out on the Broads watching swans carrying their babies on their backs.


Later, as the evening draws in, you can get totally wasted and stare at the sky.



Beats Wimbledon Common any day of the week.

Living the rural idyll, as we do, I found myself having to spend a vast sum on a strimmer at the weekend. I'd been borrowing my father-in-law's, but it's a bit crap really. Anyhow, I told him about this and that he could have his electric strimmer back. After questioning me closely about the new strimmer and discovering it was a petrol one, he nodded approvingly and said "Well, if you've got a man's job to do, you need a man's tool'...