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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Bit drastic I suppose but a better excuse than " I forgot (aka couldn't be bothered "  ;)
    A chap I used to work for observed that 'I forgot' and 'I overslept' are actually genuine excuses and they're the ones you're least likely to be allowed to get away with
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    There is a kind of dignity in "sorry, I forgot".
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My husband says that all the time. Dignity is not the word that springs to mind - ever. I sometimes don't even get the sorry bit.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Thanks @Fire for sharing that, I was thinking of my son as I was reading it.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    There used to be a character in East Enders nicknamed Minty (the same chap who plays Fred Buckle in Call the Midwife). He earned this soubriquet because he was always late for work, always arriving After Eight.
    Rutland, England
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    @BenCotto - I always thought I would use the name Sue Brickay if I ever wrote a column for a music paper.  In the end I did write articles for a music magazine but used my real name as I was trying to get more freelance work at the time.  Gave it all up because it didn't pay!
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Which music mag @didyw? A good friend of ours worked for the NME for some years in the 90s 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I wrote for Sounds International and International Musician @Dovefromabove which were aimed at musicians rather than punters.  This was after I split from my then husband, who wrote for Melody Maker. This was in the 70s and another life!
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ah, probably a bit before Jody was writing … although she seemed then to have been doing it for ever …  I bought the NME back in the 60s and my friend bought Melody Maker and we read each other’s 😎 and then I had babies …

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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