Just had a few laughs - albeit rather hollow laughs - at a piece on the Guardian website by Ed Cumming, who announces that, thanks to all the shortages, Christmas has been as good as cancelled.
“There will be no PlayStation 5 under where the Christmas tree used to be. There will be no jokes in Mrs Brown’s Boys, as usual, but none in the Christmas crackers either. There’s no petrol or HGV drivers, of course, but correspondents also report shortages of tennis balls, merlot, white bread, sardines, M&S chicken kievs, fish sauce, frozen apple strudel, tinned sardines, spring onions, fire alarms, an effective opposition, chocolate Hobnobs, cat vaccines, cat worming pills, bubble bath, Leon fish-finger wraps, marmalade, butter beans, dog-poo bags, goats, crisps, decaf coffee, bulbs (plant), bulbs (light), pigs, blankets, pigs-in-blankets, roofing lead and Harry Potter merchandise, especially wands”.
Licenced last week: a pub sign at Rye harbour, in East Sussex, which reveals that in a brief cessation of hostilities during the Battle of Hastings, the adversaries were able to fraternise over a glass or two of the local ale...
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