The Oldie

Hell is other people’s children on my sofa

There’s a downside to being a town mouse in a city. Country mice ask to come and stay.

In general, friends stay for one or two nights, they bring booze and food and it’s lovely to catch up.

But things don’t always work out so harmoniously.

A few weeks ago, Young Mouse, now 24 and still living in the nest, asked if he could have some friends to stay.

‘I met these French girls at the Ministry of Sound,’ It’s a nightclub, m’lud. ‘Can

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