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Sunday, 24 May 2020

Drivel From Devizes - Dateline Sunday 24th May 2020


Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 24th May 2020

Here is our weekly round-up of events from D-Town:
                                              
1.      D-Town’s mayor, Hugh Jarse, has defended his senior advisor, Dominant Cummings-and-Goings, for taking several trips from The Vize to his third, fourth and fifth houses in surrounding villages, claiming that his need to provide his child with fresh first-growth olive oil, tinned larks’ tongues and free-range artisanal muesli over-ride any mere trivial lockdown regulations.  Speaking from Doasyouretold House in Getknotted Lane, Mr Jarse pointed out that his advisor had not been visiting a lover, embezzling lockdown benefits or spitting on Col Tom Moore’s image, so he was free to use his common sense.  Everyone else should stay at home, keep 2m apart and generally shut up.

2.      Meanwhile, citizens have been advised to go to work.  Unless they can’t.  In which case don’t.  Unless they’re essential/ key workers, so they should, unless they can’t.  But don’t use public transport, unless they have to, in which case don’t lick the windows and keep 2m apart, only 3 people at a time clinging to the roof, one on the front bumper, and they must wear a mask, unless they don’t want to, in which case don’t, because it’s not provenly effective anyway.  So stay put, but go to work.  Stay home and save lives, unless you don’t feel like it, and think that a few days at the seaside is a good idea, in which case go.  Or don’t because it’s not safe.  Or drive 250 miles if you want to.  Or don’t.  But stay alert.

Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2020

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