‘La la laaaa’ hollers Clive in a relatively quiet moment of our latest party, or ‘soiree’ as dad likes to call it. “Oh no here he goes again!”
Hi my name is Charlotte and I am the daughter of Clive and Kim and little sister of Ben and Tom, I say little sister I am 18 and the boys are 23 and 25 respectively and are six foot two bookends.
‘La la la, la la la la laaaa’ comes the drunken reply from six or seven of the party. ‘You'd better come home speedy Gonzales, away from Canary Row. Stop all of your drinking with that floozy named Flo.’ It’s not a good noise. Thankfully no-one knows the whole song except my dad, and mum is now giving him an earful to keep the noise down because of the little kids next door who have gone to bed. It is another episode in the saga that is SELMA(South East London Mooning Association).
My dad has always said if you sing the first three notes of the ‘classic’ (dad's words not mine) ‘Speedy Gonzales’, then someone will always reply with the rest of the opening phrase. Under the influence of a few gin and tonics I tried it once in a bar on the South Bank of the Thames on a girls’ night out, the whole place went quiet and everyone turned and stared, I haven't tried it since and have no intention of ever doing so again.
I don't quite know why we are having a party (‘soiree’); it is a spur of the moment thing by mum. “We haven't seen Ray and Chris for a while” was her casual throwaway line.
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