In Competition No. 2538 you were invited to submit an extract from one of the following books: What to Say When You Talk to Yourself; Nuclear War: What’s in it For You; The Joys of Cataloguing. These are all genuine titles taken from the hugely entertaining Bizarre Books by Russell Ash and Brian Lake.
I’m with W.J. Webster, who accompanied his entry about talking to yourself with a heartfelt note: ‘This is all horribly close to home!’. As many of you acknowledged, the advent of mobile phones has been a godsend to those of us who are in the habit of chatting animatedly to ourselves in public. I don’t go as far as to clutch a pretend handset to my ear (an oft-suggested tactic in the entry) hoping instead that fellow pedestrians will assume the presence of a low-visibility earpiece.
It was a very strong field this week, difficult to hone down to just five.
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