It's pretty clear we're heading into another period of belt-tightening, sock-pulling, sleeve-rolling, penny-counting austerity.
Already the news bulletins are full of talk of "prices" in a way not seen since what can casually be referred to as The Entire 1970s. Shirley Williams's "three-shilling loaf" has given way to Harriet Harman's thirty-shilling French stick. Shortages are going to become the norm. Fights will return to corner shops over ownership of the last banana in the parish. And the cost of operating a three-bar fire will soon reach the equivalent of that legendary benchmark of exaggeration, a trip to Timbuktu.
Hence it's high time to revive this memorable initiative:
3 weeks ago
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Chops and bangers!? Bit much isn't it? Or are the sassies for the kids while mom and dad have the chops? We need to be told. And what about poepl e who don;t want peas mixed in with their carrots? My mom used to get around that problem with a segments you could insert into the pressure cooker.
Errr, nice cardy! And I notice they don't suggest turning the TV to save usage either. "Just one episode of Poldark is equivalent to seventeen thousand spot welds in this Trident submarine"
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