Scenes north of the border as the Scots wait for Sports Direct to open this morning to buy a Spain shirt.
Not even a joke, for last 20 years I’ve kept track of who we’re playing next by the football tops being worn by operators at my work. The number of people I know who went across for the craic this year without a ticket is phenomenal. If it was purely a fan competition they’d walk it.
As a young 11 year old I would sometimes ‘peruse’ my aunties Brian Mills catalogue when I went to visit my cousins in Ryhope. As a 16 year old in 1983 I was on a YTS working for Littlewoods in Hendon where their catalogue stuff was administered from. Even though I went out with a girl who worked there I was very disappointed to find that 99.9% of the predominantly female workforce didn’t look anything like the lasses in their catalogue.
I’ll have you know that cross-dressing septuagenarian women of short stature and who prefer non-monogamous relationships can be very alluring.
I've just finished reading a book called 'How to end sentences with Beatles song titles' That's 2 hours of my life that I won't get back ! The author was a paperback writer
A servant asked the lady of the house for a pay rise. ”Give me three reasons why I should give you a rise” said the lady. ”I can iron better than you” said the servant girl. ”Who told you that” asked the lady. ”Your husband” she replied. “Secondly, I can cook better than you” ”Who told you that” asked the lady. ”Your husband” she replied. ”Thirdly, I can make love better than you” said the servant. ”I suppose that my husband told you that” said the lady, angrily. ”No, it was the gardener” said the servant. ”How much do you want ?” asked the lady.