Thursday 3 March 2011

Tweed peril!

Beware Before You Wear...
A word from the front line of public life 
  While we are all delighted for fellow Ragster, Munro Tweeder-Harris, as he racks up yet another year of illustrious life as a good Antiquarian, the photo of him happily enrobed in a good Norfolk gave me some pause for serious thought.
Just the other club night, I found myself listening to a fine, steady fellow whose nerves were well and truly jangled: indeed never was a G&T so essential for a poor chap's survival!
Only after gulping his third could the poor blighter speak - and this is no stammering curate I'm talking about, the man has taken on all comers in service of the Empire, from the Euphrates to the great Rock.
Nerves shot to pieces, a wreck.  It's lightly told, but heavy with implications of responsibility for us all.
  Heading office-ward the other morning, he narrowly avoided a nasty accident on his velocipide, while momentarily - and quite unconsciously - distracted by sight of a particularly fine Tweed.  Some chap, coming out of a small supermarket, blithely sporting some pucker wool craft as if he was in his own club!  A supermarket, I tell you, and one of the smaller, city-centre-rot variety, too.
Our man escaped a most unpleasant entangling with pedestrians of the commoner sort, by a nat's whisker and the grace of Aunty Gary.  And who knows what other moments of chaos that self centred buffoon went on to cause that morning, wandering blithely through a city centre full of innocent people?
 So have a thought, gentlemen, before you strike out, cravated & jacketed - what's good for the charabanc may be darned dangerous for the casual errand.
Major S.G. Hodgeforth (Retired)

4 comments:

  1. Editor,

    I possess a pair of Harris tweed sling-backs. They are a delight!

    Yours,
    Harriet Gudgeon
    Turret House
    Trumpington
    Cambs

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  2. Editor, The Trumpington Bugle18 March 2011 at 12:30

    My dear Miss Gudgeon,
    many thanks for your truly tantalising message & patronage of our little rag, The Bugle. The author of the piece, and many other chaps here in the office, have asked me to express to you their earnest advice that you reserve those lovely sling-backs for dancing & garden parties, and never for travel by velocipide!
    Here at the Bugle we are always interested in the pleasure of our readers, and should you wish, our Picture Desk Editor would be pleased to consider a picture of your splendid footwear for our occasional feature "Antiquarian Pagina 3 Lovelies".
    yours enraptured,
    TB Ed

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