Boxer Shorts, Coffee & Popmaster
Yes, I am off today and please don’t insult my intelligence by saying you don’t understand the title of this blog.
3 hits by Marvin Gaye in 10 seconds. Piece of piss…ha
Yes, three days off for no other reason than it was between Summer and Old Boys. Royal Mail requires all staff to book all their holidays at least 12 months in advance and who was I to argue? You have to be careful though and keep a record yourself. Its no joke to turn up for work and be greeted with “aren’t you on holiday today?”. Its a bit like going into the kitchen at 1am and forgetting why you went there. Actually, I have now moved onto stage 2. At 37, I go to into the toilet and wonder why…
Smells
No connection obviously but I have been thinking about this for several days. I went into Superdrug on Friday to buy something for the weekend (bbq briquettes) and was greeted by the smell of Wolseley bathhouse first thing in the morning. God knows what soap it was but it was obviously one favoured by the mothers of Dukies in the 80s. My closest chums will remember the long coat I wore in my 5th and Lower 6th form. I bought it off Wayne Allen for 60p, something that I am pretty sure was more than he paid for it from the Oxfam shop. Anyhow, some female spilt perfume over it in the Stage and it smelt of strawberry forevermore. Now, when my mother plugs in one of those oh-so-natural airfresheners (summer fruits I believe) I am instantly transported back to the Dover Stage in 1985.
Still think I am nuts? About 10 years, Hooe Primary school was used as the local Polling Station. In we went to be greeted by the smell of DYRMS boot room. Klear as god is my witness.
About two jobs ago, I worked in an office next to a microfiche reader. The room smelt exactlly the same as backstage in the old Nye Hall.
Yes I am nuts.
yep , I agree.