THE BOY WANTS A PAIR OF TROUSERS THAT HE DOESN’T HAVE TO SHARE, A HUGE MEAT PIE, A SUGAR MOUSE, ‘A LOT OF TOYS’ AND A PUPPY CALLED SCRUFF.
‘Ah, sweet,’ said Albert. ‘I shall wipe away a tear, ‘cos what he’s gettin’, see, is this little wooden toy and an apple.’ He held them out.
BUT THE LETTER CLEARLY -
‘Yes, well, it’s socio-economic factors again, right?’ said Albert ‘The world’d be in a right mess if everyone got what they asked for, eh?.. What good’s a god who gives you everything you want?’
YOU HAVE ME THERE.
‘It’s the hope that’s important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they’ll just sit and eat it. jam tomorrow, now - that’ll keep them going for ever.’
AND YOU MEAN THAT BECAUSE OF THIS THE POOR GET POOR THINGS AND THE RICH GET RICH THINGS?

• Sir Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

I have an instrumental playlist for this because lyrics distract me.

I became best friends with my ex after we broke up and we lived together for years.

Nothing over PG (and sometimes it even that) and only allowed to play 1 hour a day at most.

Get a job
Move somewhere far away with my partner
Start T
Go low contact with my family
Be happy
Make friends
Add to my tattoo sleeve

Nando’s’ double cheese and bacon burger with added pineapple and hot basting

Haha, apparently the original saying is “Home, James, and don’t spare the horses”. My mum told me it’s because a lot of carriage drivers were called James, and don’t spare the horses means to be quick about it. I don’t know if your parents said it differently because it amused them that way or some other reason, but I suppose the idea is there’s no time to feed the horses since we’re in a hurry.

Mum had a few:

“Home, James”

“Lead on, McDuff”

“You’re lucky I love you”

“You’re big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself”

Pepsi Max

Diet Dr Pepper if I’m visiting America