Metamorphosis

It is the Sunday service and the Vicar is preaching about mementos. We all gaze appreciatively at his late father's qualification from the Royal Institute of Chartered Accountants and his certificate from the Royal Life-Saving Society. Then he draws out a large framed photo of his sister's old school friend.

Note to self: find where the Vicar keeps this photo and substitute a portrait of
the new Archbishop of Canterbury.

The friend, he tells the assembled cubs and scouts, had raven hair and filmic cheekbones and, on a family trip to a fairground, he made sure that he shared a pod with her on one of the rides. Unfortunately the ride was a fast and furious one and unfortunately he had just eaten a large portion of chips. The vicar-to-be threw up all over the school friend's shapely knees.

The memory, he says, came back to haunt him last year when he saw his sister's old friend in the national newspapers - and he draws forth another framed photo:



If it hadn't been for those volatile chips, he concluded, he, not Daniel Craig, might have become Mr Rachel Weisz.

The congregation swivels to watch my reaction. I smile serenely in what I hope is a filmic fashion, but I regret the knobbled woollen tights that buffer me from the cold of the pew and I regret the used tissue that has just slithered from my sleeve.

Then, suddenly, I'm seized by joyous enlightenment. Every good man deserves to have his fantasies realised and I shall sacrifice myself to embody the Vicar's. I shall decline to make chutney for the  Christmas bazaar and leave off baking for the weekly church tea. I shall swap my M&S polyknits for Stella McCartney and bed down nightly with Dr Colbert's Facial Discs.

I'll need an allowance to fund my transformation, of course, so the Vicar will have to divert a portion of his stipend to lay in some L'Oreal. And he'll have to make other adjustments. I doubt Rachel Weisz would accommodate his afternoon nap and he'll need to clear his diary to babysit while I'm night-clubbing in Soho.

The Vicar places the two photographs back in his father's old brief case and I stuff the tissue further up my sleeve. I am agog to get back to the vicarage and Google Jimmy Choos. For I intend to start my reincarnation immediately - just as soon as I've finished Hoovering the Vicar's study.










Comments

  1. Older Mum11 November 2012 at 16:44

    Ha ha ha .... Well if you can't beat 'em, join 'em I say! Fancy throwing up over Rachel Weisz - snigger! snigger! :o).

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    1. Adventures of a Middle-aged Matron11 November 2012 at 22:09

      I might need you to give me tips on how to join 'em. Got this blessed horse manure down me nails!

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  2. Singing Angel11 November 2012 at 17:24

    I loved the sermon but I'm not sure Fr E would have made a good James Bond. You certainly don't need to change, he's lucky to have you.

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  3. Bibsey Mama11 November 2012 at 18:28

    Enjoy your wild nights in Jimmy Choos! Be careful not to puke on Daniel Craig. No, actually, do. Then you will be even.

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    1. Adventures of a Middle-aged Matron11 November 2012 at 22:10

      It won't have to involve Daniel Craig will it? He looks like Putin.

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  4. Molly11 November 2012 at 19:15

    Watch out for the Jimmy Choos, they're killers. That is some anecdote though. I think you'll need to tell remind the Vicar about that time George Clooney asked you out on a date but you were busy washing your hair...

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    1. Adventures of a Middle-aged Matron11 November 2012 at 22:11

      A man from the Berlin Philharmonic did once grab my left breast. Does that count?

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  5. Anonymous11 November 2012 at 19:56

    Suggest framed poster of suitable dishy chap (casually tucked under your arm as visual aid during conversation) and plausible scenario. Oh, the time I narrowly avoided that multiple orgasm with Colin Firth in the tesco queue...( anonymous Rach)

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  6. Kat Sighs11 November 2012 at 20:02

    Fantastic!! Brilliant post. I doubt he would swap you for the world xx

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  7. Kate12 November 2012 at 09:37

    Oh that's fabulous. I'm quite sure Ms Weisz can't rock a pair of Hunters like you do though.

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    1. Adventures of a Middle-aged Matron12 November 2012 at 09:52

      They're not looking their best at the moment. Can't get the dried horse manure off.

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  8. Iota 13 November 2012 at 12:48

    I thought you WERE Rachel Weisz, writing incognito.

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