It’s like a curse, it’s just meant to be. For some reason my Mum, bless her (love you Mum :)) has got it into her head that I like Michael Palin.
Don’t get me wrong, I like his ‘Marching Up and Down the Square’ sketch, and some Python, but this is the third Christmas I’ve had a Palin book. Pole to Pole and Full Circle are both on my shelf and this Christamas she’s given me all five volumes!
Does anyone else get unwanted Michael Palin books from well meaning Mums?
By: Seafuryfan - 24th December 2009 at 11:11
Just grin and bear it… enjoy your Mothers gifts while you can …because one day in the distant future she’ll be gone and you’ll only have these memories to look back on
Yeh of course Steve, it’s all very tongue in cheek, a sort of black humour. It was just like my Granny decided one year I liked Dick Francis (sp?) novels, so every year…
By: Rocketeer - 23rd December 2009 at 20:37
It’s like a curse, it’s just meant to be. For some reason my Mum, bless her (love you Mum :)) has got it into her head that I like Michael Palin.
Don’t get me wrong, I like his ‘Marching Up and Down the Square’ sketch, and some Python, but this is the third Christmas I’ve had a Palin book. Pole to Pole and Full Circle are both on my shelf and this Christamas she’s given me all five volumes!
Does anyone else get unwanted Michael Palin books from well meaning Mums?
you’ve been a bad boy SFF and opened your pressies early??!!
By: BSG-75 - 23rd December 2009 at 14:14
It could be far worse. Somehow my Mum got the idea I was a James Last fan! That was a CD that went straight to the charity shop!
I can do you a nice line in high necked button collar wolly jumpers….
then again Steve has a point, besides, my old mum still loves telling people of the time when I was about 7 and I bought her a REAL gold bracelet as it was the best thing for sale at the RSPCA jumble sale, so I guess we are even !
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd December 2009 at 14:03
Does anyone else get unwanted Michael Palin books from well meaning Mums?
It could be far worse. Somehow my Mum got the idea I was a James Last fan! That was a CD that went straight to the charity shop!
By: Sky High - 23rd December 2009 at 08:13
Palin – Python – Ripping Yarns – The Missionary etc etc. Brilliant, but Palin and travel do not go together, for me. Celebrity travel is tedious and seldom informative, except at an “armchair level”.
By: Ren Frew - 23rd December 2009 at 02:42
He’s been interviewed on ‘Hardtalk’ on the BBC News channel right now. Very entertaining !
By: steve rowell - 22nd December 2009 at 22:38
It’s like a curse, it’s just meant to be. For some reason my Mum, bless her (love you Mum :)) has got it into her head that I like Michael Palin.
Don’t get me wrong, I like his ‘Marching Up and Down the Square’ sketch, and some Python, but this is the third Christmas I’ve had a Palin book. Pole to Pole and Full Circle are both on my shelf and this Christamas she’s given me all five volumes!
Does anyone else get unwanted Michael Palin books from well meaning Mums?
Just grin and bear it… enjoy your Mothers gifts while you can …because one day in the distant future she’ll be gone and you’ll only have these memories to look back on
By: tenthije - 22nd December 2009 at 21:59
Does anyone else get unwanted Michael Palin books from well meaning Mums?
Just be glad it ain’t the Sarah Palin book. 😀
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