Sunday, 13 April 2008

I didnt like it

I used to work picking berries in the berry fields when I was a kid, many young folk of my generation did. I was mostly a raspberry man myself, at Ballindean in the Sidlaws I did strawberries occasionally but I didn't like it. Ballindean was great, steep dreels running up and down the hill, always hot, oh yes. Linteys, redpolls.
I remember once this other kid (other than me) saying, "hey what kind of jeans are these you've got on?" I'm thinking what are you talking about, I thought just jeans was good enough. Anyway he had Levis and when I looked at them they did look quite cool, a rich blue faded at the knee,and that was original cool before cool became uncool and then became hot again. Latterly I wore Levis for quite a long time and then at some stage, post psychadelia, went to Wrangler, then for some reason (cheapness) to lee; I'm not awarding you a capital L, lee.although perfectly servicable pair of strides you were, for a long time protecting my legs from the strafing of the shrill North Easterly and the hairs from unflattering wind ruffle. I used to get them from Burton's, boot cut.
Much later I decided , quite without encouragement, that Levis were Rangers and Wranglers, Celtic, lee would be partick thistle. The reason I'm asking is because I've just noticed my oldest boy, 16 is wearing Levis and the 14 year old Wranglers. That's enough of that.
The lights just went out there, could be mice, memo must get a qualified electrician to raise that switch tomorrow.
What is a memo anyway is it like a wee note? Have you noticed "operational", this must be buzzword of the day or operational buzzword du jour, just so as not to repeat myself even partially. How did we manage before without using it much. It has an important ring about it with maybe a hint of danger.
Your voice would need to drop a bit, it certainly wouldn't go up, oh deary me no. Just imagine that, a shrill "He's on operational duties right now" You see? It's probably migrated from the military into the council via the police force and heading for a private sector near you soon and when everyone's finished with it the clergy will start using it.
What else,no that's it.If you've got a word that you've noticed send it in to the guestbook and we can examine it together.

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