Sorry, wage slaves, I'm off to the beach!

I know, I know, it's quite intolerable when some retired old git lets you know that he's off for some sea, sun and sand whilst you remain cooped up in your coal mine or tractor factory.  Still, you can't blame me after enduring three solid months of rainfall.  Now, at last, we have some 'global warming' and I'm off to make the most of it at Chesil Beach which is otherwise known as the Jurassic Coast so it should suit an old dinasour like me!  The last time I went I tried to impress the ladies by striding manfully into the sea to demonstrate my superb swimming abilities.  The effect was somewhat marred about 0.7 secs after I had entered the water when the freezing cold hit every nerve-ending in my body sending me into severe trauma.  Whimpering with pain I staggered out onto dry land furious with our local authorities who failed in their duty to heat up the English Channel to the same luke-warm temperature as my local swimming pool!  I mean, what do we pay our taxes for?!  Anyway, as I fry gently on the beach I will try - no, really I will - to compose something half intelligent to write when I return home in the afternoon.  Perhaps the Euro will have collapsed by then.

Comments

[dearieme]

Yeah, we're gong "down the Fen" this arvo. The sea is just too ruddy far.

[dearieme]

Ah, a complication has arisen. So perhaps not after all.

[Bloggingbooks]

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[dearieme]

Who could resist publishing this comment thread, eh?

[David Duff]

Nothing serious, I trust, DM?

Dear Mr. Bloggingbooks,
Thank you for your kind letter but with the sort of drivel I produce I can barely get anyone to read it for free, let alone asking them to pay for a book version - and that is quite apart from the fact, given my level of readership, that many of them move their lips as they read! Need I say more?
Kind Regards,
David Duff

[dearieme]

It evaporated, Duffers, and we sallied forth anyway. By golly it was hot. Ooh I miss the sea breezes of my boyhood.

[David Duff]

Ah yes, those sea breezes - I understand they gave you your beautiful complexion, DM!

[Andra]

Blogging books.
Poor desperate bastards!

[David Duff]

No, no, Andra, it's simply that the excellence of my witty and intelligent prose would obviously command an enormous audience!