Male Possessive / December 5 2008
‘The wife does all that for me, Steve.’
‘What, even when you haven’t washed it for a few weeks?’
‘Especially then.’ He pointed to his jeans and laughed. ‘I made her get out of bed at four o’clock this morning to iron these before I opened the shop.’
‘You don’t iron jeans, surely.’
‘No, she does.’ Mr Mishri pointed [...]
The Men Who Loved Women / March 7 2008
I bumped into arch joker Reg and his diminutive, three-legged Jack Russell terrier Hercules in the park earlier today.
Hercules is so small, he looks like a tiny guinea pig as Audrey chases him around the flower beds. Although he does his very best to keep up with her, she is much too quick for him [...]
Crash Landings / September 20 2007
Nelson rang last night. He asked how I was.
‘I’m feeling lonely,’ I told him.
‘Think yourself lucky,’ he said. ‘At least you got rid of that mad French woman you were married to. She was anybody’s for a tin of beans and a Martini. Small price to pay, being lonesome, if you ask me. You got [...]
Final Reminders / August 9 2007
I am very divorced now, but looking for some old photographs to throw away last night, I was reminded of my marriage ceremony.
My wedding day was a gas.
True to form, I was completely drunk when I took my wife up the aisle, so to speak.
Months later, she revealed to me that she was ‘a bit [...]
