Sometimes mistaken for the mutual contempt of people who have spent far too long together, when actually it's probably the safety-valve that has allowed them to stay together so long.
As Nancy Banks-Smith said of my own particular role models Jack and Vera Duckworth "it works for them like the blades of a pair of scissors".
Which is a roundabout way of saying Anne's been off work this week and we've spent it in a deadlock over the ownership of our respective halves of the breakfast bar. God forbid she ever retires....
So, instead of escalating our own six day's war, we've decided to go to Dorset for a couple of days.
Tomorrow will be the first "in praise of" I will have missed in my mission so far, I'll have to do two Friday (or maybe three Saturday).
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About Me
- Gary
- In my twenties I was a failed poet. In my thirties I wrote a book on gambling which was very nearly published. In my forties I wrote a small book about moving from London to Shropshire, which remains unpublished. Into my fifties and the quest continues...
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