“Oh, not you as well!? I’ve just had Lek telling me that I don’t do anything all day, by which she implied all year, and so, by extrapolation, the last decade.”
“Ah, hold on a moment! No, I didn’t mean that at all and I think you know I didn’t. I understand what office work is and the need for it. I have never been a writer, but it strikes me as being like an old-fashioned scribe, something like that? Even that sort of work has to be done by someone… just not by me…”
“Well, strictly off the top of my head, you understand, the most obvious flaw in your comparison, despite it being a load of bollocks and a wind-up, of course, is that…”
They both shook hands and laughed.
“Nice to see you again, mate.”
“Yeah, I’m told that you have to be careful around writers or they’ll put whatever you
