* Usually your nearest and dearest, in my thirteen years of experience … unless it’s Gypsy, and she ain’t near or dear to me.
† That’ll be ten guitars, so! Ay, thank you, ay’m here all day … and the next weeks too, if the lads get through.
‡ The guy is in his forties, for goodness sake!
б He does like it, though; you can tell just looking at him.
§ Call it perpetual, never-ending, forever – there are many great words that could be used here.
** Dixie says actual snogging is a wet business and I SO do not like the sound of that. Uggs has no real opinion on it and I suspect that, like me, he has never had more than a peck, either on the lips or simply on the cheek.