17th June 2012, 09:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 17th June 2012, 09:26 AM by kevin wooldridge.)
Those of us unable to afford the luxury of a tent were living in a collection of concrete pig sties on a farm not so far from Cairnforth....
....one night as we staggered from the pub back to farm we were stopped by the local plod wagon and asked the who are you, where are you, why are you routine.....obviously intended to cower us into rural submission. When we told the constables we were for the time being living in pig sties behind the farm, they insisted on us giving our 'real' home addresses. One of our group (perhaps the one with the degree!!) decided he wasn't going to stand for this kind of intimidation and said 'Actually I don't have a home address. I'm peripatetic'.........To which the policeman replied,
'Yeah right. If you're peripatetic, where's your wheelchair then?'
....one night as we staggered from the pub back to farm we were stopped by the local plod wagon and asked the who are you, where are you, why are you routine.....obviously intended to cower us into rural submission. When we told the constables we were for the time being living in pig sties behind the farm, they insisted on us giving our 'real' home addresses. One of our group (perhaps the one with the degree!!) decided he wasn't going to stand for this kind of intimidation and said 'Actually I don't have a home address. I'm peripatetic'.........To which the policeman replied,
'Yeah right. If you're peripatetic, where's your wheelchair then?'
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...