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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Sprites

The day's not starting so bad: coming into work I'm accosted by an attractive young girl dressed as an elf in green leggings. She hands me a stick of rock and a leaflet.

"Look after yours ELF this Christmas!"

it says. I was just about to ask her if I looked like the sort of person who seemed to need a bit of looking after, and was she available for the job, when it occurred to me that the age difference was nearer thirty than twenty years.

5 comments:

Pat said...

Or did you not fancy the green leggings?

Macy said...

You mean she wasn't so young then....

Eddie 2-Sox said...

Age difference. Balls to it. Today we realised it is TWENTY BASTARD TWO years since The Housemartins had the Christmas number one with Caravan Of Love. Nearly a quarter of a century.

The Topiary Cow said...

What the heck is a stick of rock?

Cow thinking she needs a stiff drink, confronted, as she is, not only the the evidence of cross-oceanic differences, but the vision of a young attractive elf handing the scribe of Helminthdale a rock of some kind.

Befuddled moo--(hoisting eggnog)

Kevin Musgrove said...

Pat: actually, I was quite taken by them.

Macy: tsk!

Eddie: I'm still getting over "Classic Rock Anthems" on MTV all being stuff produced after the millennium

Ms. Cow: here you are. Spearmint's best (with "Helminthdale" written right the way through it), though it may clash with the egg nog.