"You're a bit keen, aren't you?" I ask.
"We're trying to get together a pile of photos for a branding exercise to get some inward investment into the borough. I've got to get pictures of happy smiling shopping people. You can't imagine how difficult that is. Still, third time lucky I guess."
"Not much luck?"
A flourish of the hand encompassed the street.
"Look at it. Lunchtime in the run up to Christmas."I wished him luck with his doomed exercise and made my way through the merry throng saying "How much?!" as they window-shopped the Help The Aged outlet.
"Surely, half-empty shopping streets filled with surly brutes is the Helminthdale brand?"
"That would be accurate, right enough. It would be nice to be aspirational."
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I'm surprised that, with your sense of corporate responsibility, you didn't volunteer to be one of the gurning yeoman for the photies. You'd have looked lovely.
Madame DeF: sadly, I don't show up on silver emulsion fillum
Surly brutes, eh?
Ghost of Christmas future for Cow's neighborhood, probably...
Moo!
"...I don't show up on silver emulsion fillum" I see a picture book in this called Where's Kevin?: spot the barely visible apparition... is he looking out of the window? Sitting on a park bench smoking a cigarette? Or is that his face on the cover of Spons' Builders Merchants catalogue in the Reference Library?
Of course even charity shops are ASPIRATIONAL these days...
Ms. Cow: past, present and future in Helminthdale. Hope you fare better.
Gadjo: smoking a haddock on the cover of the High School Musical Annual.
Macy: I feel uncomfortable giving to charities that are so very much more openly affluent than I could manage.
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