George had moved to King Street because
of his obsession with all things connected with space and aliens, in fact it
was this obsession that led to him painting his wife Mavis green. She did not
object too much although she did say later that she would have preferred to
have been warned in advance rather than wake up in the morning covered in green
paint. George himself said that he had
never entirely understood Mavis and by painting her green she made a very good Martian,
and he was working on a Martian Phrase book. Although Mavis was convinced she was
speaking English and told George that everyone else understood her perfectly
well.
It was rather ironic then
that several weeks later George received a text message from Mavis to tell him
she had been abducted by humans who were planning to do terrible experiments on
her. In reality she had run off with Mr
Clark the librarian to Spain
because the stress of being a Martian had become to much and as she told Mr
Clark, George was completely mad.
Several houses along King Street at No24
lived Harold Beckman famous as the first British man in space, who spent
several weeks on the International Space Station until the accident where he
uttered those famed words HOuston we have
a problem. . . . Again? Since
then Harold always kept a small can of oil about his person and insisted that
his door hinges were oiled once a week. As he told the postman on many occasions as he
oiled the hinges of his front door . . . Nobody
wants a squeaky door on the air lock. . . He often referred to the front porch as the
air lock. It was his four days trapped in the airlock of the International
Space Station that had brought this way of thinking about, and his early
retirement was finally thought for the best after he started to wrap his head
in Kitchen foil and was found oiling the wrong end of the cat.
After Mavis was abducted
(ran off) George spent many hours discussing this with Harold who said the
Aliens were everywhere sabotaging all the critical doors around the world so
that one day when they invaded folk would find they were immobilized by jammed
doors making mankind useless and unable to defend themselves.
Their friendship however
came to an abrupt halt when a young assistant at Boots the Chemist handed over
some photographs he had developed for Mr Harold Beckman of them (George and
Harold) both dressed as Penguins in a state of arousal. It was a great scoop
for the local press but not so good for Harold, George or the assistant at
Boots the Chemist who was sacked for breach of confidentiality. Harold kept his front door locked after that
and George ran off to Spain
to escape from sniggering neighbours, where he found Mavis working in a tapas
bar. She told George that her mind had been wiped by men in white coats so she
had forgotten about him. They got back together after a bit and are now often
seen scampering along the Spanish beaches wearing Penguin suits and giggling.
I hate Writers Block. . .
When will it finally go. . . .AAAAuuuuuggghhhhh.
...And they all lived happily ever after. I admit that the part about George and Harold dressed as Penguins in a state of arousal, did make me chuckle fairly loudly. In fact, I think I even guffawed.
ReplyDeleteYou do know that people with persistent writer's block, do not write persistently Mr Z?
Thats a bit odd Miss Lily your blog has vanished off my list what happened there.
DeleteNo it appears to be that the latest post has not shown up. . . .I will investigate tomorrow I most go to sleep as work looms in the morning in the grey office . . . and I have managed to avoid it for a while too..
DeleteWe have oiled the wrong end of the cat... I have fallen in love with this phrase and endeavour to use it daily.
ReplyDeleteHello Mr H . . . I think I have oiled the wrong end of the cat a few times in my life or it certainly feels like it from time to time.
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