This morning turned out fine just like the George Formby song of yesteryear,(a favourite of my old journalist friend Moshe,)so fine that I cycled to the CooP in Mablethorpe for a paper,this being the sticks it did not open until 10am,giving me the opportunity to cycle along the sea wall just in time to watch them launching the lifeboat,though I think it was routine and not a call out as the sea was calm,I never got to see the lifeboat at pitsmoor en route pour le papier,on the other hand you can't get a Daily Jang down here for luv ner money.
I clocked 74 mph on the return journey and would have been quicker if it was not for the wind resistance created by my Roy Cropper bag,and the flapping of my fluorescent yellow waistcoat.
This afternoon I trimmed one of the willows in the front garden to allow the eucaliptus chance to get more light as willows grow at a tremendous rate and hog all the space,which reminds me I need to get some cuttings from Le Blade Vegas's laveteria before he departs for the loxley valley, laveteria grow well here, and would make a nice splash of colour in front of the dyke.
Yesterday was coffee morning at the village hall and report back time from the Benidorm duet Vegas,little was said about the environs ,probably just as well but it seems the weather was kind to them,but no sign of a tan in evidence?it seems Ricki Tomlinson was in the same hotel adding a little scouse culture to the resort,I introduced a little terminological inexactitude by telling all and sundry that the holiday cost nothing ,as their appearances as extras in the Benidorm Comedy TV show paid for everything,this will now be circulating the village as an absolute fact, I should have been a journalist,me and cockney lil's husband had an amusing ten minutes or so discussing made up stories in the rags,he used to be a press photographer so is wise to the wiles of that profession,and of course my background as a cartoonist and partner in crime to Moshe when he was an editor I worked closely with gave us some common ground,we agreed that the whole of the News of the World was made up by inventive journalists,I will finish with Moshe's old saying,"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story".
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You mean 7.4 mph?
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