Moments

Some pre-Christmas moments....

• Customer in Highbury's snootiest cheese shop: "Have you got any Stilton with cranberries ?" . The listening queue is clearly (internally) aghast. The French shop assistant: "Sir, none of our cheese 'as fruit in it. You could try a supermarket".
• At home, kitten number 2 discovers she likes porridge while I'm not looking. The night before, she discovered she likes mince pies.
• On the Victoria Line, c1030am, a six-foot tall scouse pensioner, wearing a flaxen "syrup" and powder-blue blazer, with one large case and a giant pink hat box, enters a surly and silent tube carriage at Euston. "Hiya, everybody, I'm from Liverpool". Silence. "Worra you lot like ?". Silence. "I'm going to St Lucia". Let's hope he can keep the alcohol in balance for the rest of a long day.... I wish the same to all my readers !