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On the way in this morning I saw this

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1. At 10:33 AM on 31 Aug 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   
   Oh, Eddie, can we have a Comic Relief Day on the Blog today, do you think? It's just what I need today .....

2. At 11:06 AM on 31 Aug 2007, DI Wyman wrote:

   well judging by the 'ding' on the corner I guess it is from the last one?

   Big Sis..

   
   .....{{{{{Big Sis}}}}}......better?

   DIY

   
   

3. At 11:07 AM on 31 Aug 2007, Simon Worrall wrote:

   Ah, Comic Relief!

   Another reason for taking a foreign holiday or staying in all day with the doors locked and the curtains drawn, avoiding the plague of normally sane people dressed like court jesters or new-age travellers. All of them waving buckets like some demented pack of scouts, determined not to clean your car but empty your wallet instead.

   Si.

4. At 11:29 AM on 31 Aug 2007, wrote:

   SI (3)

   re.All of them waving buckets like some demented pack of scouts..

   just so that you know....generally, scouts come in troops....cub scouts in packs...and beaver scouts in colonies....

   DIY (A Gilwell Scout!)

5. At 11:30 AM on 31 Aug 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   Thanks, DIY. All frugs gratefully received. xx

6. At 11:30 AM on 31 Aug 2007, wrote:

   Harriet Cass - was she looking very spiritual?

   She's one of the two senior ones you know! - but who is the other?

7. At 12:22 PM on 31 Aug 2007, Simon Worrall wrote:

   DIY;
   Hmmm. I think some subconcious and unrealised vision I had of feral packs of charity collectors intervened, all wearing either rictus grins or unspeakably grumpy faces, rattling their tins/buckets, urging you to dig even deeper into your pocket to hand over yet larger sums of cash for some cause which, in all honesty you've never heard of or could care less about. But you do it because you get the sticker which leaves an adhesive mess on your clothes, but which stops all the others pestering you throughout your shopping trip.

   If the one outside M&S doesn't get you you've still got to dodge the ones at WHSmith, Boots, BHS, Waterstones and the picket lines of them across the pedestrianised shopping area, between the charity shops which now dominate the high street.

   I have waking nightmares about this sort of thing.

   Any wonder that I prefer to make a quick lightning raid on the out-of-town Tossco, with its acres of free car parking and lack of ill-dressed charity types.

   Besides, most charities can't get volunteers for the can-rattling. So they have to employ commercial companies to do it for them, on a percentage or a fixed fee. So a slice of what you give goes straight to someone's profits. How many would give if they knew that.

   The other scary thing about Comic Relief is the continued appearances of Terry Wogan, who we recently learnt is paid for his work on the show. Time to pension the genial old duffer off and find a younger genial duffer instead.

   Si.

8. At 12:44 PM on 31 Aug 2007, wrote:

   SI (7)

   no problem..I agree.

   and Wogan, swop him for Adrian Chiles I say!

   DIY

9. At 04:40 PM on 31 Aug 2007, wrote:

   I thought it wasn't till Spring time usually? Surely Children in Need's the next thing, in November?

   How depressing, on the last day of August..

   Big Sis: (((mutual frugs!)))

   Fifi x