You're History.

No Good for me, sang the chanteuses of Shakespear's Sister.

 

This  sonnet writer's sibling group consisted of a well known former Bananarama "singer" and ex-wife of Dave Stewart, Siobhan Fahey paired with the less well known moody looking other one.

They soon parted ways after a couple of hit singles.

Shakespeare's real sister lasted considerably longer, with Joan living until she was 77, remarkable for the early seventeenth century.

And so this week it is also time to say goodbye,

Good bye to a pair of three quarter length shorts. I bought these pantaloon inspired clothes way back in  2003, in readiness for our move to New Zealand. I think I was the only person buying summer gear in the middle of an English winter in Reading. Certainly I remember feeling conspicuous as I approached the till in Topman. (Yes Topman in the Oracle at Reading, alas as far removed from the classical temple as Troilus was to Cressida. Tragic really)

And tragic too is the tale of these fair shorts.

I wore them quite proudly for several months. They were flaunted in Fiji, an Englishman abroad and enjoying the heat.

Back in NZ I wore them for a while, until alas I spied them for sale in a discount warehouse chain.

Here they were priced considerably less than I paid for them in Reading, and now had the knowledge that they were for sale in the Warehouse. Horrors! My expensive UK branded shorts were for sale, and on sale, for $5 at The Warehouse!!

And so they languished in the bottom of a drawer, occasionally being dragged out for odd occasions, and stays in hospital (as they are quite comfortable.)

But now they dont expand as much as I have expanded, and out they go!

You're history, no good to me, my waist has gone beyond your maximum 33.