Gas, wind, farting, flatulence, guffing, letting rip, blowing off, letting off, coughing in your rompers, tearing the sheets, cutting the cheese, giving a Bronx cheer, call it what you like, I know what I calls it - a Scouse hippie filling my boat with abdominally produced methane and making my eyes burn for the best part of a week. And do you know what the lummox presented him with for tea one night? Go on, have a guess. No? Well I'll tell you - a big plateful of sprouts. What on earth was he thinking? He may as well have forced hard boiled duck eggs down his throat, it couldn't have been any worse. The effects, as you can no doubt guess, were quite, quite shocking, almost paralysing. Particularly to someone of my refined and gentle disposition. Honestly, it'll take weeks for the miasma to clear. And then they laughed like a pair of naughty schoolboys about it the following morning. I rose above it all of course and treated them both with the contempt they fully deserved. The lummox should've known better and will pay for his indiscretion in due course (I left him a little gift last night - hee hee!).
And the noise!!! I didn't get a wink of sleep at night and had to make up for it by lying in bed until six in the evening to catch up. Honestly, he was rasping and trumpeting away all through the wee small hours, tossing and turning on the couch and grunting with subliminal pleasure at each tremendous, great blast. How there's any glass left in the windows I'll never know. I mean, it's bad enough when the lummox farts himself awake and makes me jump but this was taking it to dizzy new heights.
Fair's fair though, the Scouse hippie (I believe his name begins with R, to be honest I wasn't paying much attention) has worked very hard and where the lummox has failed he succeeded and there is now a healthy and ample store of firewood to keep me cosy throughout the coming months. So thanks hippie I shan't forget it but then I shan't forget the brass band impressions either. Next time lay off the sprouts or better still tell the lummox to not even buy any, you have been warned
P x