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Jenna Walker: Summer . . . bingo wings, tennis skirts and festivals
Valentine's Day is brilliant. If you have a partner, it's obviously good. If you don't, the stores are rammed with way more wine and chocolate than they are usually, so it's a win-win in my opinion.
Valentine's Day is brilliant. If you have a partner, it's obviously good. If you don't, the stores are rammed with way more wine and chocolate than they are usually, so it's a win-win in my opinion.If you're a promiscuous toe rag, there's bound to be some crappy club in the area promoting a singletons disco or whatever, where you're
guaranteed a lay.
If you're a Tawny Owl leader at Brownies, then Channel 4 usually sticks on a Bridget Jones-type film with Ready Brek intent, which actually just leaves you with the realisation of what a sad case with cats you've become.
But mainly, Valentine's Day means spring is just around the corner and that means summer is within sight. Cue English "summers", where the slightest rise in temperature invites all the girls to get out their bingo wings and tennis skirts.
And I can't decide whether I'm looking forward to summer this year. Even rumours of Radiohead, Kings of Leon and the Verve playing Glasto this year couldn't tempt me back after last year's boot camp experience.
And Reading festival – a place that was once for people who actually knew the words to the headliners' songs – is now loaded with bandwagon chavs who think that being able to play four chords on a guitar to comprise a couple of Kooks' tracks around the campfire makes them the Indie king.
Even my little brother wants to go, now he's grown his hair and tapered his jeans. It's not as funny as much as it is annoying. Yay for
Carling.
Heck, the Hawley Arms in Camden is now burning down in protest at having Peaches Geldof and her boyfriends invade.
That used to be a pretty good pub, until people heard that bands hung there, and dragged their Topshop "vintage" behinds to the bar for a cherry 7UP.
Meanwhile, insurers have been warned that the cost of replacing part of Camden could run into the tens of pounds, and we've all been forced to take afternoon tea at the Ritz for a bit of actual rock 'n' roll.
Wino's out of rehab soon and even she's in for a shock, according to her acceptance speech at the Grammys: "This is fuh maaa Blaaiike. And fuh Laaahhhndaaahnn. Cause Caaaamdiin tarn ain't burrrnin' darrrn…"
Except it is, Amy dear. It is and it has.
Hmm... On second thoughts, let's have a little longer with winter, shall we?
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