Woody wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:29 pm
Reminiscent of Alan Coren's
A Short Life but a Happy One, in which he learns to live with austerity.
The family sits in their car, which has flat tyres and no petrol, fantasizes about touring, and tries to recall the sensations experienced.
They picnic on "...peppered Ryvita and mushrooms newly scraped from the fractured damp course. How we both have profited physically from the shortage of everything edible! No overweight problems for us, and what a saving in clothes! ..."
They find some excitement in looking at the neighbour's dried-egg packet...
The whole thing is very funny.