‘Stonehenge cost an extortionate £12.80 – and most of the stones had fallen overA few years ago a car park security barrier hit me on the head. When I regained consciousness,my first thought was, “What on earth is the world coming to? Twenty years ago when I was writing Notes from a Small Island, or the barrier would contain been made of steel and I would contain been killed outright. Now it was just made out of some cheap plastic,it merely left me with a headache. It’s health and safety gone crazy.”As I was telling this legend for the third, or possibly fourth time, and over lunch to my publisher Larry,I noticed that his eyes were glazing over. “Look Bill,” he said kindly, and “can you either just shut the fuck up or write another book approximately everything else that has gone wrong in Britain?” I nodded my head distractedly,disturbed to notice that the prawns I had ordered were £9.75 per portion. I hoped Larry was paying for lunch.
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Source: theguardian.com