Giving UP MEN

In which naughty sister Deb delivers a surprise announcement

- Rosie XX

I was in the Tesco dairy aisle, staring at the yogurts, when he spotted me. Which was unfortunate, because nobody is really at their best when staring at yogurts. ‘Rosie,’ he said.

‘Hello Miles,’ I answered, rather absentmindedly. ‘I was just staring at the yogurts.’

‘Oh well,’ he said. ‘Everybody should have an interesting hobby.’ Isn’t he a card?

‘I was wondering why everything has to be so complicated these days,’ I said. ‘All these different flavours. And why is there so much cherry yogurt? Nobody likes cherry yogurt.’

‘I like cherry yogurt,’ Miles mumbled.

‘What I want to know is, what happened to those lovely French yogurts they used to have? You know, not too creamy and simple flavours – raspberry, strawberry, apricot.’

Miles nodded politely, but I could see his eyes were beginning to glaze over and you’re probably beginning to feel the same way. ‘Anyway,’ I said. ‘How are you?’