His grass was greener though


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I remember a cartoon in Penthouse or Playboy, which I would have tried to reproduce here is I had any talent for drawing. It pictured two adjacent houses. In one bedroom of each house, there was a guy with binoculars looking into a bedroom of the other house, where a woman could be seen undressing at the window. The women are virtually identical. Like all the best cartoons, it had something to say about the human condition. When Emma and I were in our thirties, I would sometimes creep up to our bedroom if the sun were shining (as it used to in those days). Looking out of the window, I would lust after our next-door neighbour as she sunbathed in the garden. She was a few years older than Emma and less attractive. So what was I doing eyeing her up while Emma was downstairs? Forbidden fruit perhaps? This rather modest picture is of Emma at the time. I don’t have a picture of the neighbour.

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