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poppy

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  1. take the cake! You're supposed to have sold all those valuable books you claim to have. What's happening about that, for goodness sakes?' Rosie certainly wasn't the pushover I took her for when I first met her. What had happened to my sweet, agreeable, biddable wee girl? In retrospect, after a time, this seemed to happen with all my girlfriends. I really felt it was a major flaw in the female of the species. No constancy, a tendency to develop an unattractive firmness of the jaw, along with a digging in of the toes. 'Dearheart, as you've left me to single-handedly run our demanding business, all by myself, alone, on my tod, I have absolutely no time for any outside business deals.' 'Don't be ridiculous, Johnny, you have ...
  2. Have You Ever Seen the Rain? ~ CCR (I wish! We have a drought at present ☹️)
  3. that for once I'd get my own way. 'Darling,' I said, in my most syrupy voice, 'to use dear Daddy's parlance, there's been a little convexity in life's thoroughfare, I'm afraid.' 'What are you talking about, Johnny? Daddy would never speak like that!' 'Well, to put it bluntly, not putting too fine a point on it, things being as they are... the nitty gritty of the situation is ...' 'Johhny, get to the point, I'm nearly out of minutes.' 'We haven't got the readies to donate to Daddy's gallivants.' 'Whatever do you mean? Our account had a very healthy balance when I left! Where has it all gone?'
  4. in this instance broke a habit of a lifetime, and went completely along with my wishes. 'Let me make it patently clear, Mr Revolting, that under no circumstances can anyone, including yourself, withdraw any funds, whatsoever, from your account. In fact we've written to you on numerous occasions to apprise you of the fact that your balance is critically overdrawn and this must be rectified forthwith. We would like to see you in our office first thing Monday morning.' Well, one silver lining, at least, in life's little stratocumuli ...
  5. standing on end and instantaneously going grey, 'I wasn't agreeing to anything for your father!' 'Sorry, Johnny, ...fttzz ...skpppt ... you're breaking ....jtwak ...up again. I'll ring Daddy and ... ybbber ...him.' 'Nooooooo!!' I shouted, but too late. She'd hung up. There was only one thing to do ...
  6. Very nice banjo playing!
  7. From Here You Can Almost See the Sea ~ David Gray
  8. away in his offshore bank accounts? Not to mention the pile of readies he keeps under his mattress, he can bloody well afford to finance his own trips!' 'Johnny! Please don't use profanities. After all Daddy's done for us! And how do you know about his money under the mattress??' Because, dear reader, I'd had a good fossick around the old fossils premises on several occasions and helped myself to the odd tenner or three, but I certainly wasn't going to tell Rosie about that! 'Just a wild stab in the dark, precious, it's the kind of thing dear Daddy would do. I'm really hurt that you'd rather have Daddy or Fiona as your travel companion, than me.' 'Well, Johnny, I've just been feeling lately that ...
  9. Fanfare For the Common Man ~ Emerson, Lake and Palmer
  10. my little attempt at jocoseness. 'I don't think she mentioned sushi at all,' Rosie sounded perplexed. 'No, it was a play on words, dear, a kind of ... oh never mind. So what are you thinking of doing now?' I asked, hoping she'd say she was coming home. 'We're all missing you terribly.' 'I'm missing you too, Johnny. And all the moggies. And of course Daddy. I thought I'd...
  11. her to do things ... unmentionable things. Do you think the white slavers have got her? I wish you'd come with me instead, this never would have happened, ' she sobbed. I entirely agreed, but now wasn't the time to tut tut and say 'I told you so' and 'now let this be a lesson for you!' 'I'm sure nothing like that has happened, darling. She's always struck me as flighty and unreliable. Are you sure she hasn't just gone off with the Americans? Have you checked her room?' 'I hadn't thought of that! I'll go now. Just hang on a minute.' About five minutes later, ' Guess what?? ...
  12. managed to contact her. She looked like the wiggly lines on an old out of focus TV set but I could hear most of what she was saying. 'Fiona has disappeared,' she wailed, 'and I don't know what to do!' Personally I would have been relieved to get rid of the annoying little blister, and got on with my life, but Rosie obviously thought otherwise. 'Calm down, darling and tell me when you saw her last.' 'Well we went ...
  13. finished our tea and it was swiftly back to work for me. I still suffered from panic attacks when recalling my traumatic experiences with Pythagoas and the ex-Missus. I wasn't going to risk a repeat from 'Little Miss Mischievous Fiery Dark Eyes' no matter how cute. I was hard at it in the office, catching up on the latest news in The Sun, when the phone rang. 'Darling, is that you? I have a problem ...
  14. Friends and Lovers ~ Bread (songs can suddenly transport you back years. I've been listening to a nostalgia paylist I've made on Spotify today 🙂 )
  15. her custard creams. She managed to extricate her hand holding at least half a dozen. I couldn't help admiring her talent but I was concerned there wouldn't be any left for me! 'Hoy! You better not have eaten them all!' But it was too late, she'd crammed every last one into her mouth and all that was left were a few boring, rather soggy, water crackers. I sighed and put the kettle on, it didn't look like Dolly had any intention of ...
  16. a very wet and bedraggled looking feather duster in one hand and a plunger in the other. 'Yes, I'm sure a few custard creams are the order of the day. I've been hard at it, so put the kettle on sweetie and make us both a nice cup of tea. Strong, hot and sweet for me. And then you can tell me all about what you've been doing.' I was actually a bit worried about what she'd been doing, given the equipment she was carrying. 'I'm sorry Mr Revolting, but ...
  17. You're not supposed to, but some people do. I've never had one myself.
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