As far as British summers go, 2013 wasn’t that bad – a nice opening, a moist middle and a glorious finish (sounds like someone I know). A few rainy days but little to write home about, apart from one late evening a few weeks ago. Mother Nature threw a hissy fit and chucked a squally storm across the flatlands – snap, crackle and pop, with water coming at us from all angles like an out of control car wash. I was busy tippy-tapping when I noticed a small dribble of water gently trickle down the wall from the corner of the ceiling, rolling behind my laptop screen. Liam and I ascended to our boudoir tucked into the eaves to investigate and, yes, you guessed it, the roof had sprung a leak. An urgent call to our landlady led to a quick inspection by a middle-aged builder sporting a beer-belly and fetching multi-coloured socks, chosen by his daughter, he told me.
Erection day came. I was minding my own business when my attention was drawn to a fella in the semi-buff with more muscles than Brussels playing with his poles right within my line of sight. Yes, him and his tools were only feet away. It was all a bit like a car crash – you know you shouldn’t look but you just can’t help it. Not a lot got done that afternoon, I can tell you, not with the steamed-up spectacles and dripping windows. It all brought back cheerful memories of my x-rated peak-time thirties and that Diet Coke Ad (the original, not the recent sequel). Who said life in Norwich was boring?
Sounds like the pepsi cola advert with the semi naked window cleaner – or was it coca cola. Great writing – made me chuckle!
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It was the Diet Coke ad, I think 🙂
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I can never keep my commercials straight if I can remember them at all.
🙂
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Only one or two lodge in my mind. I think I’m fairly impervious to advertising these days. Too stuck in my ways 🙂
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Heavens! *fans self and sits down*
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Smelling salts? 😉
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how cow–are those pics of the workers outside? Zowza. 🙂
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Alas no. I’m not so much of a perv that I snapped them in secret. In fact, mine were nicer 😉
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in that case I would have joined them on the scaffold!
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Just don’t look down 🙂
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that should have been “holy” cow–my glasses were steamed up.
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Jack. You are a past master at the ‘double entendre’.
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Yes, the past being the operative word 😉
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Two comments. Comment one: ye gods. Comment two: I remember the summer of 2013 – it was a great day. Comment three (I have little to no self-control): ye gods.
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Kept me entertained on that day of summer.
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What’s it with you and a leaking roof? I’m beginning to think they are self – inflicted.
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Now why would you say that? 😉
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Phew! As we say on Twitter… #thatisall
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😀
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I opened this at work and got the strangest looks from my fellow teachers! haha. The explanation won you several more future viewers.
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😉
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