Millie week 76: Mon 17 - Sat 22 Feb 1992

Responding to the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, back in the days when it was automatically assumed that anyone British would be no good at sports.

'The wrong sort of snow' line is one that has plagued British railways ever since 1991, when it tried to make an excuse for its usual inability to predict the onset of winter with the excuse that its trains couldn't move because the snow that has fallen was of the wrong type. To be honest, just for once, they were correct - it was a very rare type of powder snow that Britain's damp climate usually ensures we never receive - but by this time no-one was willing to believe them. 'The wrong type of snow' has since become a byword for lame excuses. We're all waiting for George Osborne to blame his triple dip recession on 'the wrong sort of economy'.

The last strip succinctly explains why I always wear slip-ons.