Saturday, January 17, 2009

Incredible lines from family "Round Robins"

The Guardian's Simon Hoggart gets his readers to help him build up his pension. (Mind you Wogan has been doing it for years with his listeners' letters). They send in Festive Season "Round Robin" letters which people have sent round to family, friends and, sometimes, complete strangers. Hoggart then publishes the best bits in his column, and indeed, books.

He publishes a selection today.

Some of the things people write in the Round Robins are unbelievable. One Yorkshire family wrote:

In February we bought an annual tax disc to exhibit on our car.

Thanks for telling us. Did you also remember to put your clocks back...and forward?

And this excerpt from one family's bulletin tickled me:

Poor Harry has had an awful year. He got bronchitis which he left too long; he needed two lots of antibiotics and steroids to clear it up. This in turn gave him piles, and the creams he used gave him peri-anal dermatitis and it all turned into a chronic anal fissure. I would like to say that his troubles are behind him....

Boom! Boom!

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