Absolutely the last bit of TEFL Xmas cheer
Sunday, December 30th, 2007We’re down to curried TEFL Xmas now, so it’s very nearly the end…
“We were at the end of Christmas lunch. The turkey and the pudding were settling nicely and the wine had rendered us conversational in that idling way in which nothing said is of any great significance. My son Brian mentioned that he ought to find a new hobby; I replied that he might try steel engraving. He and my wife stared at me in utter confusion and amazement. “Why would anybody want to do that?” she demanded. “Well,” I replied, “It came to my mind because I’ve just been reading about a nineteenth-century artist who did it.” Brian shook his head in puzzled exasperation. “Stealing gravy?”