No doubt about it when one considers my past jobs compared to others, I have been touched by the most extraordinary life.
I was musing about my shining years a window cleaner to those ignorant of cockney slang.
I worked for the largest window cleaning company in the World.
It’s name The Great International Plate Glass & Window Cleaning Company Wimbledon, affectionately known as ‘The Great Ant.
Most window cleaners are dodgy take my word for it, myself included, I came from an ability to climb and jump around roofs and have a head for heights and a few years earlier was known as ‘the cat.
Window Cleaning and me, I used to clean many places in London and even used to clean Beneneden School for Posh Girls in the countryside.
All the weird and wacky ‘old Gents Clubs around St James’s, old City boozers even Wimbledon dog track, furrieries, diamond merchants, Zetters football pools, John Lobs, Clarence Hse (we held the queen mum’s warrant) Asprey’s, Aquascutum the list was endless.
The great ant when I worked for it only had 6 shiners and were still payed Victorian wages in the days when they were great!
It’s quite amazing what one can put in a window-cleaning bucket full of water.
One day whist lying on a parapet having a fag 70ft up above Bond St, I spotted my cousin a then well known couturier, I whistled down to him he instantly & inanely started shouting at the top of his voice ‘Don’t do She’s not worth it, They never Are” he later gave all his money to some old religious order and is now a brother, Brother John.
Tales from The Shed 2.
Dwelling as one does in my shed in the water garden I was thinking!
So,a quick call to the font of all wisdom, zee german @ jj’s and started to construct a ‘punkerwhaala’ fan (for those a/c moments) Think of a daquoit kid pulling on a rope during the days of the Raj.
So an hour later I have a fully functioning water/drip punkerwhaala fan and as I have constant water it’s totally brill, except I next have to ‘motorize it..tbc...
Ps: "A busy man has time for everything a lazy time for nothing"
