OK - so what happened to the candied peel ?

Pat dropped me off at the tram stop and drove away. It was 15h50. The English Class starts at 16h30. Easy.

"Next tram in 56 minutes, after that more than an hour", said the board. What ? Oh, the board's telling lies again. Hang on, the tannoy is saying something.

"Because of a demonstration in the centre of town there are no trams and no replacement buses."

OK. I phoned the centre, then phoned Pat, then settled down in the drizzle to wait for her return to pick me up.

No candied peel in the fruitcake of this weekend.

Comments

minternational said…
Is that a competition you have every week, 'fruitcake of the weekend'? And what did you do to earn the accolade? I think we ought to be told.
10:42 am
Alan said…
We all know who'd win, don't we children !
8:54 am
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