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Fordyce Maxwell
Fordyce Maxwell: On Apollo 13 they weren’t still having to use central heating in May
YOU can have too much information, and I’ve just switched off an example of that. Nothing to do with a DVD in questionable taste or a website called up by mistake. All to do with the good intentions of our gas and electricity supplier.
Fordyce Maxwell: The car washer and inveterate grass cutter might think the same about me
MOST of us have chores to do to keep house and home ticking over. Some we don’t mind, some we dislike, a few we might rather enjoy.
Fordyce Maxwell: The words ‘easily assembled’ in a flat pack can produce a cold sweat
‘THE cheque’s in the post” and “I was just thinking about you” are usually quoted as examples of great lies. I think that “easily assembled” tops them both. Opening a flat pack to find those words on the instruction leaflet can produce a cold sweat and mild hyperventilation.
1 commentFordyce Maxwell: They would learn that being smarter than you look is the best policy
I SPENT three hours in a bus with several dozen teenagers last week and thought: what’s modern youth coming to? No shouting, dubious chants, exaggerated laughter or bad language, and I couldn’t even get a sing-song under way.
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