Why is Tuppence averse to work? Why are you, you might well ask, and who are you to criticise, since you never do a hand's turn. Well, I can answer that one. It's different for me, because I'm Older, and life was different Back Then. I never had to work. In fact, we took a pride in not working, back then. We diddled along, as best we could, living on supplies stolen from the Tunnels and stuff Geoffrey found in the bins at the tourist car park. We asked for nothing and we took nothing, except what we needed plus a bit extra just in case. Of course as you know, the tourist car park has in recent years been transformed by Val and Dave Nark into an eco-friendly holiday park with yurts and 'pods' all ready with welcome packs filled with Val's hedgerow jams, nettle gin and the like. Forty pounds per person per night and that's in low season, thank you very much. I wouldn't pay that for a rat-infested glorified tent with a 'green' toilet, but lycra-clad, wet-suited, kayaking, paddle-boarding fools with a penchant for quinoa do. The bins are now lidded and labelled for recycling by the way. Any spare food goes for composting. Not that there is anything - nothing that appeals to us, at any rate. Nothing worth nicking.
No, what we need is a good old Wallace Arnold bus tour. Overfed pensioners who can't finish their crisps and chuck half-empty packets out the window, along with cheese and pickle sandwiches, cocktail sausages, Chelsea Buns and Empire biscuits. Discarded Chelsea buns would enable us to make an attempt at a five a day, not that we care about such things, with their half-dozen raisins and the glace cherry on top.
Anyway - why is Tuppence averse to work? Answer - he isn't, not in my book. Tuppence works very hard at the things he likes to do, for example playing in his band and firing his pistols at random strangers. What's wrong with that? Leaving aside the exploitation aspect, why should he have to clean toilets for three pounds fifty an hour, when he doesn't like it?
I challenged Val Nark about this the other day but she just barged past me as if I didn't exist. Perhaps I don't. I'm actually starting to wonder. They do say you become invisible when you reach a certain age. At least that's what Mrs Tupfinder-general wrote in a letter to Polly, the 'Bugle' problem page agony aunt last week. Am I invisible or am I a vampire, she asked. Because I can't see myself in the mirror. Is it me, Polly - am I yet another victim of 'male gaze syndrome'?
more on this later.
Next time - 'Polly' turns out to be none other than Bert Vickers, moonlighting taxi driver and part-time journo, who learned writing in prison.
No, what we need is a good old Wallace Arnold bus tour. Overfed pensioners who can't finish their crisps and chuck half-empty packets out the window, along with cheese and pickle sandwiches, cocktail sausages, Chelsea Buns and Empire biscuits. Discarded Chelsea buns would enable us to make an attempt at a five a day, not that we care about such things, with their half-dozen raisins and the glace cherry on top.
Anyway - why is Tuppence averse to work? Answer - he isn't, not in my book. Tuppence works very hard at the things he likes to do, for example playing in his band and firing his pistols at random strangers. What's wrong with that? Leaving aside the exploitation aspect, why should he have to clean toilets for three pounds fifty an hour, when he doesn't like it?
I challenged Val Nark about this the other day but she just barged past me as if I didn't exist. Perhaps I don't. I'm actually starting to wonder. They do say you become invisible when you reach a certain age. At least that's what Mrs Tupfinder-general wrote in a letter to Polly, the 'Bugle' problem page agony aunt last week. Am I invisible or am I a vampire, she asked. Because I can't see myself in the mirror. Is it me, Polly - am I yet another victim of 'male gaze syndrome'?
Next time - 'Polly' turns out to be none other than Bert Vickers, moonlighting taxi driver and part-time journo, who learned writing in prison.
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