This afternoon, I walked through my door and picked up this week’s local free newspaper, The Brighton and Hove Leader. Amongst the insert spam included today was a glossy advert for Forbes TV rentals, inviting me to hire a flatscreen TV in time for the Beijing Olympics 2008 and a brochure inviting me to come along to the “Marketing Suite” this Saturday (tomorrow) for free champagne and canapés at the launch of some Barratt new-build “penthouse” two- and three-bedroom apartments in Hove.
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I shall gladly accompany you to the Barrats Home thingey… it sounds like a laugh!!
It’s been and gone, mutley—and, as so often on Saturdays, I was busy, but thanks for the offer anyway.
Shame really, given that, according to Merryn Somerset Webb of The Financial Times, “81 percent of women are stupid“, even I might have got lucky if I’d hung around for long enough: