| HANKS' CORNER - #3 "My new phase of life" |
| Hi, I�m Tom, Hanks that is. Well, this new phase of my life is into its fourth week. Yes, I know it�s hard to believe that I�ve been living here in St.Albans with the rest of the Celia Says team for that long! I�ve also received many letters from concerned fans, worried that I�m throwing away my career in favour of an apron and a bottle of Mister Muscle so to speak. So let me take this opportunity to explain something to you: I like to think of this era as something of a �getting in touch with Tom the homemaker� era. A bit like John Lennon when little Sean was born all those years ago. I�m really enjoying it. I�m taking the time to do the things I always wanted to do but have been too busy, or scared to do in the past. I�ve started to decorate the study, and have been working my way through the baking segment of our Edmunds cookery book. The agents have also appointed me as their secretary. This is a role that I find great prestige in. I open mail, type letters, proof read, write speeches and yes, for those of you who have called the office lately, that dashing young man who answered at the other end was indeed yours truly! Upon my arrival it became very clear to me that whilst being young, successful, high flying, international agents, DeLunTrash and Pink Loose China had been neglecting what I like to call the �extra-curricular� aspects of life. Why, their idea of a good night after work was a bottle of red and a Monty Python video! So lately I�ve been dreaming up new and exciting ways for them to spend their time. As you may have heard, I�ve introduced �Sonnets by Candlelight� an idea I resurrected from my Varsity days. Even the simple Board game can be a stimulating, yet �fun� alternative to Shortland Street. The office is located on a great sized section, so I�ve built a high ropes course. Ofcourse lets not forget that I play the keyboard like a demon, and that I am a trained and fully certified expert at organising themed parties. These are all ways that I believe my new phase is one that is beneficial to others as well as myself. Sure, I�m not going to win an Oscar for it, or even a Peoples Choice award, but instead, I�ve taken two wonderful, yet overrun people. I�ve organised their lives, I provide them with three good, hearty meals a day. I clean and make their house a home, and then round it off with a jigsaw or perhaps a good serving of monopoly�and lets not forget, a sprinkling of love. And I think you�d agree, you can�t argue with that. And now? Now I�m going now to start organising next weekends murder mystery extravaganza. Celia is having a Foot-Spa and the Agents are safe and sound tucked up in bed. Then I think Celia and I may treat ourselves and open up the Tim Tams and a nice chardonnay�it's not a bad life is it? (NOTE: rhetorical question) That was Tom, Hanks that is, until next time saying goodnight. |
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