Car trouble
A RATHER rum tale recently appeared in the populist press, shining an unforgiving spotlight on a couple who were fined after being caught breaking lockdown rules while engaged in a tempestuous manoeuvre of the non-monastic variety. (In a motorcar, no less.)
This amorous activity was described in the newspaper, utilising the very highest of literary styles, as a bit of “rumpy-pumpy”.
Which surprised reader David Donaldson, who says: “I thought rumpy-pumpy was a term that had fallen out of use. Though maybe that’s because I’ve reached the stage of life where it’s all mumpy-grumpy.”