Last week’s story of someone catching a glimpse of Boris Johnson’s iPod at a summer function at his kids’ school prompted a memory from someone else there.
They remember one particular Parents Day where the Johnson family put everyone else’s picnic spreads to shame by setting up a small ground-level barbecue and grilling up some chops.
After a lot of smoke, and a few popped bottles, Boris decided he would extinguish the dying embers by stamping on them. Sadly, he didn’t do it with much grace (“a sweating jelly of a man” was the phrase used) and ended up stumbling on the hot coals, nearly toppling himself.
Other guests in attendance were then treated to the sight of the future prime minister trying to keep himself upright, while crying “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” as members of his party slapped his ankles with tea towels to stop his trouser hems from catching light. |