Danskcolin: Monday June 30th 2025 "Phew what a scorcher! But don't 'send the wrong message' with an over-skimpy 'get-up' ! Just saying !!!!!"

Phew what a scorcher!!!

But in this kind of weather, it's more important than ever to dress to a minimum level of decency - you don't want to "send the wrong message" - and maybe cause friction with your spouse or current "squeeze" !!!!

a typical housewife relaxes while on of her husband's

staff cleans the couple's luxurious swimming pool.

Did you see that extraordinary outburst, under the by-line of influential local "hack" Glenda Slagg, in this morning's local Onion News for East Hampshire - if you live in this area, that is !!!! But if the outburst shows nothing else, it give a hint that "all is not well" between the Slaggs - journalist Glenda and local banking-high-flyer Gordon, the nearest thing East Hampshire's go to a "power couple" - to put it mildly!

Poor Glenda !!!!!! And let's hope she and Gordon have managed to patch things up after her article - see p.94 of the print edition! Go on, do it now haha !!!!

But let me put my cards on the table at this point, and declare a possible interest (!). You see, my medium-to-hard-pressed wife Lois and I don't have any servants, being "a humble but sweet old couple (!)", living in quiet retirement, here in nearby Liphook, Hampshire, not so very far away from the Slaggs, over in Beaulieu, as it happens

"Care for some cake?" - mine and Lois's picture that we've

put on the front page of our 16-page "welcome brochure" that

we give all our visitors and callers these days - which is nice !!!!!

And reading Glenda's open letter to her husband in today's "Onion", Lois comments this morning that she would never dress in a skimpy bikini and paint her toe-nails, even in this current heatwave that we're "blessed with" (???!), here in East Hampshire, if, say, a "workman" was coming to call - for example, local high-tech handyman Scott, or gardener Mitchell, say.

But today she's sorely tempted! Phew what a scorcher!!!

And with highs of 88F (31C) forecast, Lois says she's sorely tempted to "strip off", even though we've got a visitor coming to see us - Sarah P. who's going to "measure us up" for a new set of Venetian blinds etc. We moved into this house in Liphook just 6 months and we've "had it up to here" with the ghastly and ancient horizontal ones, that keep getting stuck.

Call us over-fussy if you like!!!

(left) my medium-to-hard-pressed wife Lois relaxing in temperatures of

up to 88F (31C) here in our living-room in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire,

and (right) blinds-salesperson Sarah P doing things on her i-Pad, or whatever,

taking down our requirements while Lois and I thumb through

Sarah's "swatch catalogue" and other "blinds literature", on the sofa

It's a pity that we've got to go out at all today, but we don't trust delivery firm Evri to drop off an online purchase to our house, so we have to pick it up this morning from local convenience store Premier in down-town" Liphook (!), and Lois had got to do a routine blood test at our doctors nearby, so we "kill two birds with one stone", and then allow ourselves to be a bit more "lightly clad" at home this afternoon, which will be a relief!!!!

flashback to this morning: we visit our local doctor's surgery

in "downtown Liphook" - Lois has an appointment for a routine blood-test

Last night we sweltered through ancient rocker Rod Stewart's set at the Glastonbury Pop Festival - Lois is a big fan, plus, he's the only singer on the bill this year that we've ever heard of, so we decide to give him a chance!

"Voice not what it was, but the showmanship still there, and in spades" - that's our verdict! And he only made one mistake with the lyrics, that we noticed, getting completely lost at one point - well, he is a bit older than us, if only by a year or so, so fair enough, we say!

Poor Rod !!!!