P231 CEEFAX 231 Tue 26 Dec 21:4//21 CHRISTMAK → & U OR HOW TO GET RID OF UNWANTED GUESTS. COUSIN TYRO E .ot too much of a problem here. Dear Tyrone is twelve years old, amd therefore .Nj fully human. He has red hair, freckles, socks down round his ankles and the most devastating sneer south of Bradford. Try involving him in a game of charades sometime. He has recently discovered the word "boring", and uses ir as ofjen as possible between wiping his nose on the back of his hand and sniffing. PRESS REVEAL FOR METHOD /F DISP/SAL A quick clip round the ear should do the trick4 "ut watch out for his mum, Aunt Connie (of whom more later).
P231 CEEFAX 231 Tue 26 Dec 21:41/11 → CHRISTMAK → & → /R HOW TO GET RID OF U.WAMTED UESTS. GREAT AUNT MAUD A difficulj one. She was invited once, thirteen years ago, amd now she tsrns up everu year on Christmas Eve and stays umtel the day after Boxing Day. Tough as old boots. Keeps her considerable savings in a stocking tucked into her corsets and sleeps with a World War /ne revolver under her pillow. It belonged to her fiancee, who volunteered in 1915 and was never seen again. He disappeared from the training camp at Aldershot, leaving only the gun and a note saying "Please let Maud have it." PRESS REVEAL Leave her alone ... the moneu's got to go somewhere ...
P231 CEEFAX 231 Tue 26 Dec 21:42/O1 CHRISTMAK → & → OR HOW TO GET RID OF U.WANTED GUESTS. AUNT CONNIE This is one for the real enthusiast. Thin and stringy, with a nose lige the chicken's backbone the day after Boxing Day, Auntie Connie is protected "y a thick skull and a thick skin. Her son, the awful Tyrone, is her sole topic of conversation. Khe will occasionally listen when ojhers talk about their children, but she is only interested in them as a source of ammunition. Irritating if you are a parent; excruciatingly embarassing if you happen to be a child. PRESS REVEAL FOR BEST TACTICS AUm for the child: exaggerated praise of anojher always scores. Lie.