This Is This

There’s bitter wind blowing through west London this morning, but it’s OK because at the end of the day I’m getting on a plane and flying south towards the sun.

Technically, at the end of the day I’d be flying west towards the sun, but I was using artistic licence, which is often 90 degrees of course.

So the next few days’ posts are scheduled ahead, because I don’t know if I’ll get online while I’m gone. The weekend song tomorrow, and it’s a good one. I was singing it this morning on the walk to Marks & Spencer to buy breakfast and lunch, which was 1 3 bean wrap, 4 all-butter croissants, chocolate covered peanuts. (mmm - fats, carbs and sugars) That’s one three bean wrap, not a thirteen bean wrap. That would just be fussy. Surely that was obvious, otherwise I would have counted the peanuts and posted the total here - scary!

Anyway, I was singing the impending song and as I walked towards the door when noticed there was a lady walking behind me. I panicked and wondered if I would pretend I had not actually been singing and was on my phone or even an unseen mobile headset, halfway through a conversation. I considered doing this:

“ (singing) ‘We can be happy, we can be happy, we can be…’ (talking, though in a slightly singing way at first just to ease in and demonstrate not-madness) Yes… Um… croissants. Or pains au chocolat, which ever you prefer. No, it’s pains au chocolat, not pain au chocolats. Like courts martial. And I love you.”

That last sentence was a masterstroke, because not only would it prove that I was not mad, but it would suggest I was in a stable relationship. The kind where I actually sing and do the shopping for us. Oh, I was a catch all right. Don’t you mind me. Meal for one, is it? Tra-la-laaa.

But I realised she was too close and saw me not on the phone and singing so I didn’t do that. Ah well.

So I guess what I’m saying that today I will eat a lot of junk food and then go on holiday.

OKthen,haveagoodweekendbyeeee!

Filed under: Slacking, Alienating Readers, Pedantry

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