
Reader, as you may have guessed, Old Monty was not in the best of form yesterday. Tadger found me jim-jammed in the hours sacred to lunch, disconsolately prodding at an unwelcome breaky. Yet the dice-throws of destiny don’t keep you pal downhearted. A sprightly rendition of Tadge’s latest tale, where huge jungly nig-nogs capture Miss Carol Vorderman and gloatingly compel her to ripen their bananas, had me gobbling down the rashers with the gusto of a goat.
Young Tadger lamented the prejudice of publishers: “Braless in Gaza”, his stirring account of Miss Natasha Kaplinsky in the hands of camel-shaggers, is callously rejected once again. The blow of this injustice flickered across my face and suddenly his manly hand had seized upon my knee, a gesture reminiscent of grand days of Nelson. “Monty! Oh think of the kiddies of England! You cannot sit in darkness! Chorleywood needs you!”
At this very instant it seemed the walls dissolved. I saw as in a vision nigh a million tow-haired moppets, forced to sing calypso tunes and live on Bombay Mix. “Dear Tadger!” I exclaimed, “My work begins anew!”. “Monty!” he cried “I seem to hear trumpets!”
The enormous success of our poster campaign had been greviously hindered by the perfidious Wong, who had purchased a proprietary paper remover and was now back in business selling bowls of shark-dick stew.
So. Straight down “Singh’s Sundries” for vital supplies. Tadger distracted the Cadbury-coloured coon by slapping his esteemable plonker on the cheeses, as your bold correspondant whipped a film for the Brownie and escaped in a cloud of the curses of old Cairo. By a happy chance, Emily has a photographic studio, available to gentlemen on weekday afternoons, plus an extensive collection of uniforms retained for use during national emergencies. It was but the work of moments for the lovely young patriot to devise a grand poster idea, revealing how busloads of sickly wogs threaten our cottage hospital.
Tonight we are once again plying the pastebrush and Wong shall awaken to darkness!
Pip pip, fellow patriots!