“I’m going campaigning, Grandad.”

“Camping are ya? It’s a mite parky for that in’t it?”

“No Grandad, campaigning.”

“Oh, yer joinin’ t’military then?”

“What’s military got to do with campaigning?”

“That’s what they do, armies, they have campaigns, war and such.”

“Oh that’s not like my campaign. My campaign is potstickical.”

“Potstickical?”

“Yeah, I’m going to a potstician.”

“A Potstician, eh?”

“Yeah like you see on the tele. I’m going to be on the tele and I’m going to stand up and shout at other people and have no manners.”

“Oh you’ll be going out on the stump then, I suppose.”

“I don’t think trees have anything to do with it, Grandad. You never see trees when they shout at people.”

“You’ll see ‘em if ya go campin’.”

“Campaigning, Grandad.  I’m going to run.”

“Where you runnin’ to?”

“I don’t know where ever they tell me.”

“Not many voters when yuh go campin’”

“Grandad!”

“Alright so what are you campaigning for then, if it’s potstickical?”

“I’m going to be President of the Not Very United States or Prime Minister of Not Very Great Britain.”

“I see, and ‘ow do you think you qualify for those jobs, then?”

“Well, Daddy said the President had the mental age of a six year old and Mummy said the Prime Minister had the mental of a six year old and I’m six nearly seven so I think I would be qua…qua…qualifilled for whichever job they wanted me for.”

“Yes, yes, I get your point. You’d certainly be a vast improvement on what we ‘ave now.”

Clo Carey – October 2020

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