SAGA

My brothers have asked me to go out for a drink this evening but I feel I may have to politely decline. I have just paid my credit card bills and am scraping the bits and pieces together for next month's mortgage payment, so I dare not really spend any money as frivolously as on alcohol. Not that I mind too much as I am not much of a drinker.

I think that autumn is well and truly here now. I am not sure of mists and mellow fruitfulness, more grey skies and drizzle.

I was in a hospital waiting room yesterday - waiting, as you do in such rooms, when I happened upon the current copy of SAGA magazine. Now once I had got over the initial prejudice of even contemplating looking at an OAP magazine, which I felt belonged best in God's waiting room, and after I had waded through the 'why don't we all read the Daily Mail and denigrate young people' copy that was in truth scattered throughout the pages, I actually found a very funny comment. It was made by Spike Milligan (obviously at some time in the past I assume as even SAGA cannot interview dead people). He had once been heard to say:

"Anyone can be 52, but only a bus can be 52B"

Although that is strictly untrue on a number of levels such as people who die before attaining the age of 52, and specialist bras for fat, smallbreasted ladies, it is still very funny. It tickled me. Indeed it has set me up for the weekend to realise that the appreciation of the ridiculous is still alive and well even in SAGA magazine.

PS How insane would a 52B bra actually look, let alone the person inside it.