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Touring takes it out of you, man. If you want fresh fruit and veg, you’re gonna have to grow your own on a big bus cramped with sweaty dickheads.


First of all you have to remember the tomato is a vine native to South America, it likes it hot and humid. No f**kin’ euphemisms please.


Right! Make sure you’ve got the right growin’ material. Most of you lot will have set up weed farms in your mam’s loft before now, so you know where to get the shit from. If the coach driver gets a bit f**kin’ ‘5-0’ on ya, tell him they’re not actually growbags from Homebase, they’re weed cakes. He’ll be fine, coz he knows he’ll get a cut.


Now, don’t get f**kin’ poncey with your seed varieties. Gardener’s Delight is a good all-rounder, like Jackie Grealish. Little cherry tomatoes are good for snackin’, but f**kin’ rubbish for sarnies and chuckin’ at paparazzi. And your big, fat f**kin’ beefsteaks are only good for mushin’ up into pasta sauce if you’ve gat a w*nky brother that thinks he can cook, or slicin’-up to hula-hoop on your cock when you’re bored and off your t*ts.


Don’t get all weepy either if f**k all’s happenin’ ten minutes after you’ve sowed the seeds. They’ll take a week or so to germinate, so chill your boots, man. When they do, give them as much light as possible during the day, alright? Even when you spark-up, do it over the little plants, but don’t drop f**kin’ hot rocks on them, like a knobhead, yeah?


Keep the plants hydrated. If you’ve used all the water on the bus washin’ your dirty kex, use lager, but let it go flat as a f**kin’ Coldplay album first, toms don’t like their lager fizzy, ok? And don’t give ‘em none of that craft ale shit. You don’t want your beefsteaks actually tastin’ of f**kin’ beef, or whatever shit that’s made from. Trust me, I’ve been there, lol.


Use old roaches to support the stems when brittle and easily damaged, like our kid’s ego. And as the main stems grow, use the drummer’s sticks to support them, that f**ker’s always too mashed to notice. He plays with wooden spoons most gigs.


Using the soil as an ashtray is fine, there’s vital minerals in ash. Just watch out for roadies having a Jodrell in there. You don’t want any of their Neanderthal DNA mutating your crop of plum toms into lookin’ like their actual f**kin’ hairy b*stard plums, for f**k’s sake.


Enjoy your crop, man. Next week I’ll be doing spuds in the sesspit under the bog. At ease. LG out. X




Craig and Charlie Reid, the twin brothers who make up novelty pop/folk group The Proclaimers, say they’re frankly depressed by the lack of interest in their reunion tour.


'What more can we do?' asked Craig, or possibly Charlie. 'We havenae released an album since 2022, so that’s kind of like the band splitting up… sort of … and now we’re getting back together and going on tour. Why aren’t people selling their kidneys to get tickets? Though to be honest, there’s no need, they’re really quite reasonably priced…'


'That’s right,” agreed Charlie, or possibly Craig. “And we’re touring everywhere - Dundee, Ullapool, the Isle of Muck - so it’s nae like people would have to travel far.'


The brothers consulted Edinburgh-based PR consultancy Bemused Kumquat, who suggested that perhaps if their lifestyles were a bit more rock’n’roll. “Like if you two had a massive falling out, and it all got very ugly and public… any chance of that?”


The two brothers looked at each other uncertainly, until one of them said, 'There was that time we were watching telly and I finished a packet of Tunnock’s Tea Cakes without asking him if he wanted the last one. That created a pretty tense atmosphere, I can tell you. He didnae speak to me for a while. Though to be honest, I think he was engrossed in ‘Take The High Road’.'


Photo by Rob Laughter on Unsplash

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