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Actually, I was the one who clambered in and out of the loft last week, but the view wouldn’t have been as interesting. I should have asked Emma to take her panties off, so I could use the title “Quote. Nice beaver. Unquote.“ [From?] Emma and I spent most of yesterday taking empty cardboard boxes from the loft and breaking them down so that the refuse-collector would take them away. (Incidentally, they were far more accommodating when they were called bin-men.) You know how it is, whenever a new piece of equipment is delivered, you keep the box or boxes it came in, in case it needs to be returned while still under warrantee. Emma and I have been in our cottage for nineteen years. Consequently we have collected a whole loftful of boxes. Looking around, it’s hard to imagine that we possess even half as many pieces of equipment as we have boxes. I can only assume that dozens of items have been disposed of - a tribute to the modern science of built-in obsolescence. Nothing is made to last any more. Not even marriage - with some notable exceptions.
Actually, I was the one who clambered in and out of the loft last week, but the view wouldn’t have been as interesting. I should have asked Emma to take her panties off, so I could use the title “Quote. Nice beaver. Unquote.“ [From?] Emma and I spent most of yesterday taking empty cardboard boxes from the loft and breaking them down so that the refuse-collector would take them away. (Incidentally, they were far more accommodating when they were called bin-men.) You know how it is, whenever a new piece of equipment is delivered, you keep the box or boxes it came in, in case it needs to be returned while still under warrantee. Emma and I have been in our cottage for nineteen years. Consequently we have collected a whole loftful of boxes. Looking around, it’s hard to imagine that we possess even half as many pieces of equipment as we have boxes. I can only assume that dozens of items have been disposed of - a tribute to the modern science of built-in obsolescence. Nothing is made to last any more. Not even marriage - with some notable exceptions.
