The new Ladybird guide to laughs
How It Works: The Husband
HE CAN remember football scores, all his old car number plates and most of the film Withnail And I. But he cannot remember what his wife asked him to bring back from the shops. This is because his brain is full up, not because he was not listening.
How It Works: The Wife
WIVES like to be right. Sara has been waiting for her husband, Tom, to arrive. He is half an hour late. Sara is delighted. She knew this would happen.
Book Of The Mid-Life Crisis
JOE’S body used to agree with him. It used to agree that his shirt fitted, that he could manage another pint, that he would be awake when the train reached his station, and that he had finished relieving himself. Now Joe’s body disagrees with him on all these things.
Book Of Dating
LONELY people know ‘the one’ is out there somewhere. They will search the whole world for them. It is surprising how often that soulmate turns out not to be on the other side of the world, but fairly nearby and reasonably drunk. The perfect match.
Book Of Mindfulness
‘THERE is more wisdom in a waterfall than there is in a hundred men,’ says Jake. Jake is always saying things like this. His ex-wife’s sister calls him Jerk.
Book Of The Hangover
WHAT a confusing world it can seem with a hangover. Sit as still as you can. Do not attempt to make any decisions. Look out of the window. Can you recognise simple shapes or colours? Is there a moon or sun in the sky? What sort of name might you have? Where might there be bacon?