You Should Pardon the Expression - 50 of the Best !

Len Watkins has collected more than 50 of his hilarious columns (from Sportsnotes and You Should Pardon the Expression) written by him over three decades and published weekly in the North Renfrew Times and the IAEA’s ECHO magazine.

Do you remember the Loyal Opposition, (his wife) Junior Barnes (the cat), Shagnaster and the Hair Apparent (his sons) and the Outlaws (his In-laws) including Big Mac and Aunt Anonymous?

If you don’t, you’ll soon meet them again. They’re all here, in Len’s larger than life stories covering such weighty topics as:

• The strain of being Irish

• The art and perils of whooping crane insemination

• Why it is great to feel miserable

• The role of jelly beans in a successful marriage

• Getting as good a fine dining table as a dog in Vienna

• Planning your own funeral

• the methane gas threat and the coming Whiz Bam catastrophe

• the stock market and his stockbrokers, Mendacious and Lout

• the crusade to protect horny toads

Plus……reverent and irreverent comments on golf, southerners, sex and religion. 

Such a gleeful sense of humour leaves me in awe and wonder...I owe Len an awful lot of laughs.” - Joan Melvin, author and historian, contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Len Watkins lives in Deep River, Ontario, with his loyal wife Charlotte, who apparently approved of all Len’s comments about her!

Proceeds from sales of this book go to the Rotary Club of North Renfrew (Deep River) for local projects.

On sale at the Loon's Nest in Deep River, Ontario: $18.95