My God, they've surrounded the place with Anona Wynn

There's always some poor bugger worse off than yourself. A colleague's just updated me on the building work on their new library.

"They had the official turning of the first sod this morning. Press and everything. Three of us have just gone over to have a look and we can't find any sign of digging whatsoever. The publican from the Duck & Pullet joined us to try and find out what had been going on.

'Ah... It's your typical English. A load of high-paid idiots stand around pretending to get something done then it'll be us poor bloody Irish will have to come and do the proper digging.'"