Laugh and the World Laughs At You
There is one thing, above all, that separates us Brits from the rest of the world - the ability to laugh at ourselves. This blog takes a tongue-in-cheek look back across the pond from the Great White North of Canada.
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Blog headquarters at Blighty's Tuck Store in Orangeville, Ontario is the nerve centre of an International network of correspondents. Renowned writers such as Cliff Whitedover in Kent, Carna Bystreet and Elizabeth Scorgis in London, file regular reports from their office in Whopping Lye, England.
Help, Help the Paranoids Are Chasing Us!
Doom-mongers, stiff upper lippers, politicians and mindless bureaucrats will be lampooned, or maybe even harpooned, without mercy. Smile and enjoy.
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Blighty's Blog recently spent a fortnight in the United Queendom. We came back with some great "tales from the trip". Here's another one.
I was handed this itinerary for a day out at York races while I was in the UK. The identity of "the pub" has been removed to protect the innocent (that's me actually. These blog posts are cross-posted to Blighty's Facebook page and the landlord of "the pub" is a Blighty's Facebook fan).
As you can see, the itinerary is fairly "liquid". But, whose itinerary is it? None other than the police in a Manchester suburb! I understand that the coach driver was teetotal.
08:30 Meet at the pub
08:35 A Pint
09:00 Breakfast with a pint
09:30 Have a bet with Keith, and a pint
10:00 Try the quiz, with a pint
10:30 On the coach
11:30 Stop for a couple of pints
12:30 On the coach to York
13:00 Enter the racecourse
Enjoy the races and have a few pints
18:00 Back on coach after last race
Back to the pub for a curry and a few pints
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