Pessimistic, miserable drizzling cynics. That's us, a nation of jealous, pasty complainers with bad teeth (well done you, good teeth, but fucked-up healthcare , I know what I prefer - having stained incisors over being a self-medicating trauma victim any day - I'm sorry, sir, you're not insured for involuntary decapitation, have a nice day ). We talk about the weather because we have weather (and a history). And whilst we invented concentration camps and genocide , we didn't feel righteous about it - if there was one reason the British Empire had to exist, it was to destroy the Nazis, and then fuck off into sunset obscurity. To vote (by a landslide) for the dissolution of our evil back in 1945 . But we are still envious, unpleasant snobs. We are still sanctimonious prigs. Joy is anathema to the intellectual Englishman, our forte is complaint and guilt, shame and desperation. You look up, we look at the pavement (it's not a fucking sidewalk). I have made some...
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ReplyDeletehappy ending though
ReplyDeletegood, then. Normal life resumes.
ReplyDeleteat a lower ebb
ReplyDeletenobody can maintain the high points without a monumental crash and burn.
ReplyDeletewell, it's officially over now. DIvorce looms. The shorter one is to be "no longer" in another sense.
ReplyDeleteStill can't come to terms with it (worried about the shortest ones - my boys).
Now the tone of this blog is explained.
The shit in the river was very different today. (next post title)
It's like a death, I think. I hope that you are able to stay near your boys and continue to be an active parent for them. Ah, bah. There aren't the words. . .
ReplyDeleteWell, I have to say, the bits and pieces you've left here are much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteWe're not being vindictive, we're not being fairly unfair.
Thanks.
It's a bits and pieces situation, this internet thing. So strange, sorto of 'talking' to someone so far away yet so immediate. There isn't a prescident (sheva wept, I'll never learn to spell). Just sound that one out. Unless it's spelt correctly, in which case have a good laugh.
ReplyDeleteprecedent, I think you mean, as in "we've had two Bushes in the Whitehouse, that makes the first one Precedent Bush"
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