Norfolk Abroad

As the Regulars struggled to coordinate their holidays to arrange a boating trip on the Norfolk Broads to rival their previous hugely successful attempt on the water, see Ahoy, the following exchange down the Local between Billy Idle and Hamish didn't really help towards a solution:

"And we need to go to South Africa."

"We only get so much diesel!!!"

Irony

Admittedly Gobby could generally find more pressing (wait for it) matters with which to occupy her time but would, on occasions, deign to cautiously approach the precarious ironing pile.

Nonetheless, these crease-filled steam-free interludes were in no way lengthy enough to warrant Billy Idle’s recent response of:

“Shirts!! Long time no see!!”
“Can you remember where they go?!”



Not to mention every woman, though hating to admit it, knows the awful truth:

Bankers

Gobby felt the need to share with the rest of the world, or at least the handful of 'Barton Lives' followers, what now classes for a bank when you live in the Shire.

Im-peared

Gobby never felt one of her favourite pastimes of gardening to be one of the most complicated of processes.

A simple matter of removing any windfall fruit before mowing was, she would have thought, intuitive and self-explanatory.

Until she came home from work to view the lawn of pear puree.

And Billy Idle's aftercare advice of:

"You might want to clean that up".

Customer Service

Gobby was enlightened to realise she was not alone in her approach to dealing with customers at the Leisure Centre of Delights: