Episode 102

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

Jazzer:  Hey, Ed - whit’s this aboot yer maw no bein weel ?

Ed:  Nice of you to ask, Jazz, but she’s fine.

Jazzer:  Susan telt me that Clarrie wis hangin oot wi some new folk ower by Penny Hassett an she wis takin seek.

Ed:  Oi don’t know where all this talk is comin from.  Mum’s just the same as ever.

Jazzer:  Is it no strange she meets some new pals an then she’s got the trots ?  Ah mean, that’s nae guid at her age.

Ed:  Mum’s been tryin to get rid of the trots all ‘er life but she’s kept it quiet til now.

Jazzer:  Ah’m no surprised, ye widnae waant every Tom, Dick an Sandy findin oot aboot it.  Real embarrassin.

Ed:  She’s never been embarrassed about it, really.  Started when she was a gel and she saw how things worked out for people like ‘er.

Jazzer:  Has she been tae see a doctor ?  Ah mean, ye cannae spend yer life tryin tae get rid o somethin like that, it’s no healthy.

Ed:  Yeah, but she’s also fightin the post-colonial populism which is gainin ground as a result of violent dispossession, exploitation and impoverishment.

Jazzer:  Funny ye should say that, there wis somethin aboot it in the Borchester Echo last week. Ah could hae a blether wi yer maw.

Ed:  That would be amazin !  Would you really ?

Jazzer:  Dinnae be daft !  Let’s go fur a pint, Lilian’s still buyin.

Ed:  Great - lay on, MacDuff.

Jazzer:  Onyways, if Clarrie waants tae start a revolution she needs to sign up the WI.  Thae wimmin cannae tak no fur an answer.  You should see the state o my ...

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum...

(Ed.  And I thought the lemon drizzle cake was surreal.)

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