So they’ve upped the age limit for buying cigarettes to 18 years of age. That’ll stop them. When I was at school there was an ice cream van parked outside the school gates every day for four years, selling single cigarettes to 11 year olds and upwards at 10p a fag. I admire the ice cream man’s enterepeneurialism. If he wasn’t selling them then they’d only have nicked them from their mothers. In many ways he was reducing criminal behaviour.
Many years ago I used to pass a garage on my way to work every morning. Every single day there was an employee outside, smoking a fag and presumably waiting for his employer to turn up with the key and open up the garage. Said employee was a dwarf. A little person. I always wanted to shout “They’ll stunt your growth” out of the bus window. Cruel but funny. Or so I thought at the time. With the benefit of an older and wiser head I realise that it would have been a nasty thing to do but nonetheless I used to chuckle about it all the way to work in the old days.
Still no baby. Three days to go until the due date so we could theoretically have two and a half weeks to go yet before he appears. I’m just praying it’s sooner rather than later. I’m desperate to see him. I’ll probably rue those words when I’ve had no sleep for 6 weeks but there you go.
On the music front, I note with interest that Warrior Soul have reformed. I was a huge Warrior Soul fan the first time round. Sadly they just didn’t seem to break the mainstream. I don’t think the world was ready for an alternative metal band from Detroit with an unhealthy obsession with Joy Division. I hope it is now and that Kory Clarke and co’s reunion isn’t a flash in the pan.
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