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Hello.
I gather that some of you are familiar with recent sordid developments in the life of my family. For those of you who are, my great nephew Alex (I mean that strictly in the legal sense - there is nothing 'great' about that boy otherwise, in my considered opinion) has now gone to Portugal in 'a last ditch effort to quit the drugs,' or, if you'd prefer, as I do, to 'try and secure an invitation to Kate Moss and Peter Doherty's wedding.'
Well that was to be expected, I suppose - I despaired of the lad years ago.
What is of more concern is the sad fate of my sister, Alex's grandmother, who has recently entered The Priory for reasons to do with 'nervous exhaustion' and so on. She was apparently having 'musical differences' with the fridge, by the end, and appeared to be lost in a world of gin during the intervention - I knew this 'new lease of life' she claimed to have discovered when the Twilight Home purchased a broadband connection would only end in tears, but I didn't expect to be proved correct (as I have been, and often, during my career as a 'stern dinner companion') in such short order.
She's frankly a shambles now, my sister. She sits there chain-smoking in the lavish gardens, her eyes pouring out black water every time anyone mentions anything to do with 'the house' - for some reason she believes that 'the little people' have 'destroyed the house finally, like termites,' but as far as I know, sitting in her three up two down in London, it's still all right. Although for those of you familiar with 'drug paraphernelia,' there seems to be a lot of it lying around.
Anyway, to introduce myself, and seeing as I seem to have 'de facto' inherited the internet user ID, along with all the other alarming evidence of lives gone to seed in this worrying place, I hold these truths to be self-evident;
1) If after a hard day at the office spent punishing other people, you feel the need to be punished in return, I've been in the trade since the early Seventies.
2) I'm fair, but firm
3) You can trust me. I'm not like the others. |
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