A conversation at The Tethered Goat this lunchtime:
Boyo: You going to The Glade this year?
The K Man: Dunno. Weather was terrible last year. Would've have flooded my wellies if I'd had any. It was like the Somme, man. Like Stalingrad.
Boyo: I think the problem at Stalingrad wasn't the rain so much as the cold.
K Man: Ah, so it wasn't that bad after all!
Boyo: And Von Paulus and his men weren't charged £30 a head for getting in, either.
K Man: Thirty quid!?! More like £125!
All history is contemporary.
