Stopped 25 pages from the end. Savouring it. What an absolute delight of a book this is. A mysterious bit of play. Anyway, I'll come back to this when I'm done but I've no doubt it'll stick the landing
You left your passport in the taxi!' 'Well, I left it there for safety. Don't worry,' Lise says. 'It's taken care of.'
Unreal brilliance
She puts the bunch of keys in her hand-bag, picks up her paperback book and goes out, locking the door behind her. Who knows her thoughts? Who can tell?
Sheer mastery
You almost won me round
Night of the Living Kids
Kids III: Schrödinger's Choice.
Kids II: Dead or Alive
Ok I'm like 40 pages in (my edition is 102 pages) and what the fuck - this is amazing
Wanted to make this post so I could performatively quote it back to you at a later date and I hadn't, yet, made a post with just that so far
You Bet!
A poster hanging up in a frame outside a building. The poster is for a show or drop in for kids called Kids Alive! Which has a kid in bright clothes on a green skateboard
Looking forward to the sequel "Kids Dead!"
Oh Teddy’s a moaning minny. Also selfish. Just go alone, storms notwithstanding.
Spends his days on the laptop doing “mathematical modelling” 🤔
It’s boobs, Jen, boobies.
I love them both and think Jenny should find a pal to go to Madeira with. Teddy will be happy for let's say a week with his mathematical models and some snacks. I think they're beating themselves up unnecessarily. Everthing will come out in the wash one way or another
Swiss/French border? Sounds to me like he doesn’t like leaving all his hoarded stolen Nazi gold behind, and it’s a lot of hassle flying it about.
His reply has the weary vibe of someone who has said all this many times before
It's a big one lmao
It's been a good week this one where
Tempers flaired and arguments are stewing
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Maybe he's one of those types who's super blunt to other people but purely monosyllabic to his wife. This may be the first time she's heard any of this
We've all got our kinks, I suppose
I was expecting to side with Janny from the outset, but as Teddy's "I don't want to do it so tough shit, wife" has sealed the deal. 73 year old women can still leave their husbands, Teds. Get over your "I had such a high powered job I simply can no longer fly" bullshit or say goodbye to your wife
Maybe bad weather follows them wherever they go - maybe they don't travel because they Know it's coming for them, they can't escape it
Yeah, she admits she goes on planes about four times more often than me already, and that's without me even trying to limit it. The rest of the time she spends agonising about holidays, telling off her friends for travelling and massively misunderstanding her husband's reasons for avoiding Madeira
you're talking about guardian readers - that is literally as far as they'll go, and they'll feel uncomfortable going that far unless someone else does the haranguing for them!
jenny is miserable and she doesn't want a holiday so much as she wants to be commended on her misery. also flying once a year isn't rarely flying. that's just flying.
if there's anyone in YBTJ history who has obviously been radicalised by Facebook, it's Teddy
I reckon mathematical models means ogling rachel riley pics on facebook
if i was inventing a boomer to get mad at i would struggle to do a better job than this guy
they're bad communicators that'd be my take - even though Teddy is super blunt, something's clearly gone awry here
Why is she projecting the environmental stuff onto him? Teddy's literally like 'I'm 70, babe, I can't get faffed'
cartoon of a couple on a bench in a snowy glad with trees before them looking up at a silhouette of a plane in the sky
Could we not at least have some carbon footprints bigfoot style on the group before them??
