… part one of an occasional series of ooh, several hundred
It’s grass-cutting time on Big A-Road, there being a brief gap in the rain. We saw them out in their hi-vis outfits with their strimmers and their ride-on mowers on the way out to Notso Bigtown and also on the way back. Or rather, we saw one of them on the way back, and as we approached we could see that he was jerking up and down spasmodically beside a high stone wall. Were we about to come upon the aftermath of some dreadful strimmer accident?
And then we got closer and could see that he was in fact playing a highly energetic game of peek-a-boo with a baby on the other side of the wall.
September 2, 2008 at 4:27 pm |
Yes, in London you’d be talking about the slack, child molesting layabout who’d down tools to perv on some young child rather than getting on with the job our council tax pays him to do
September 2, 2008 at 6:17 pm |
You mean they actually have grass in london to employ slack child molesting layabouts to cut??
September 2, 2008 at 6:40 pm |
After our trip to the Lake District last week (including a drive up to Scotland) I could well believe it. People are so much nicer. Not once did I get trampled out of the way for having the temerity to be in the direct path someone had chosen to get from A to B.
September 3, 2008 at 4:20 pm |
Dom- ahh it would have been cute anywhere
Psycho – I should probably have made clear that the baby’s mother was there also
Michelle – did it rain?
September 3, 2008 at 7:35 pm |
sorry i had read doms comment and was more having a dig at londons lack of grass…
September 3, 2008 at 8:21 pm |
Ah…
September 4, 2008 at 12:09 am |
The question “Did it stop raining?” might be more appropriate. Is it always that way up there? It was still very beautiful by the way and as Billy Connolly says “There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.”, but then he’s also from your neck of the woods.
September 4, 2008 at 7:36 am |
It’s been like that more or less since we’ve been up here. It’s the price you pay for the green…