[kj] [Fwd: [STORMCOCK] OFF: Prescott's Pot Plants]

[madani07 at fuse.net]

Here's an off-topic and strange but apparently true posting courtesy the Roy & Nick Harper list.

Couldn't help reading it and thinking of Youth.  For some reason.

 
> I quote:
> (Filed: 27/01/2005 by Craig Brown)
> 
> "Mrs Patricia Tabram, a very merry-looking, 66-year-old grandmother, may
> face a spell in prison after police who raided her cottage in Northumberland
> discovered a number of cannabis plants in the loft.
> 
> Mrs Tabram, who says she is writing a book called Grandma Eats Cannabis,
> prefers not to smoke the drug, but to eat it mixed into a special cannabis
> chocolate cake. More recently, she has developed recipes such as lemon and
> lime and cannabis cheesecake and chicken and cannabis and leek pie.
> 
> Mrs Tabram, who once ran a restaurant with the hippy name of Zodiac, is a
> good example of how Sixties people are now, indeed, in their sixties. It
> seems silly that we should still need to feign surprise at a 66-year-old
> having a taste for cannabis. The Rolling Stones, who have experienced
> similar trouble with the police over the years, are now all in their
> sixties, and so are the two remaining Beatles. Far more peculiar is a man of
> Mr Blair's generation (b. 1953) claiming never to have smoked it.
> 
> By a strange coincidence, yesterday's newspapers carried the headline,
> "Prescott spends £49,000 on pot plants". Mr Prescott (b. 1938) is, by my
> calculation, a year older than Mrs Tabram, but exactly the same age as the
> retired Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman.
> 
> My first reaction to the headline was that spending so much on pot plants at
> least serves as an explanation for Mr Prescott's spaced-out way with the
> English language. Mr Simon Hoggart gathered many of Mr Prescott's wackiest
> sayings together in a marvellous little book called Punch Lines.
> 
> They include: "Some you it succeed, some you don't." "All have a
> contributory contribution to congestion." On being asked how much the
> firefighters had been offered: "In regard to the 4 per cent wage increase,
> that of course was for the first year, which was generally offered by the
> employers and indeed was referred to by the Bain inquiry. The 11 per cent,
> the 1.3, later the 7.3, to which you refer, added to the 4 per cent... the
> overall part of the pay bill is the 7.4 per cent."
> 
> On being asked whether the firefighters might be willing to adopt new
> working practices: "I personally have always had that to my mind, and in
> particular for the consequences of fire service. I visited my fire stations.
> They posed the question of what is the work of the firefighter, and that
> precisely what we have to dress ourselves to this. That should be the front
> of every one of us. It's certainly to the front in my intentions, and I
> intend to see we can achieve it." On a closer reading, it emerges that Mr
> Prescott spent his £49,000 on hiring potted plants for his offices. There is
> no suggestion that he has smoked any of them, or baked them in chocolate
> cookies or seasonal puddings. So the question must remain: what is he
> taking?
> 
> Or, to make the question easier for him to understand: is taking he what?"
> 
> It's a larf, innit?
> 
> Nick
> 
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