What a Sunday surprise!
As I relax in my garden on this lazy Sunday afternoon, I ponder which of the week’s news events has been of most significance.
Was it the EU, which came out in support of police firing on Spanish voters? Was it the spectacle of Theresa May at the UK Conservative Party conference, disintegrating into a heap of phlegm while the stage backdrop fell apart behind her? Or was it the heart-rending account of Horace Beasley’s love affair with his right hand?
No. These incidents, momentous as they were, pale into insignificance against the truly jaw-dropping event that played out right here in “Have Your Say” when the two arch-ranters, JC Wilcox and Eric Bahrt, announced that they agreed with each other.
My dear wife, delivering my afternoon cup of tea, asks me why I am staring intently at the sky, but I refrain from answering. Sometimes I express an opinion to her and the next minute I find myself surrounded by Men in White Coats. We have a pig farm up the road, you see, and my wife is of the view that pigs are land-bound animals, no more capable of flight than the Thai military airship. But the pigs are untethered, uncaged, and Wilcox and Bahrt have spoken. I anticipate with excitement the spectacle of a flock of aerial pork soaring into the heavens above my house. It can only be a matter of time...
Nigel Pike
Phang Nga
