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they get the old heave-ho.' 'Do you mind if I take them then? I asked. 'It seems a waste to throw them away.' 'What do you want them for?' she asked suspiciously, 'you're not going to try and sell them are you?' 'Well, we could ...

That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be ~ Carly Simon

Looks great, Luna! 😍

she should be safe from any unwanted overtures. When Bunty returned huffing and puffing from taking the cats for their constitutionals, and we got stuck into a couple of baked spuds each with lashings of butter and chopped chives (Bunty managed three), I enquired why she was discarding the likes of Dickens and Hardy. There were also some D.H.Lawrence and Hemingway in the rubbish bucket. 'It's simple really,' she replied, ...

I Can't Dance ~ Genesis

find the Cosy Book Nook's key under the back door mat. Can you put half a dozen potatoes in the microwave too? I've only had a few nibbles tonight. I'm starving!' Bunty's prodigious appetite was impressive. I did as she asked, made a large mug of tea, grabbed a handful of shortbread biscuits and and started going through the book bucket discards. To my surprise ...

Save Your Kisses for Me ~ Brotherhood of Man

that, she tossed her cape in a manner that would have made Puss in Boots proud. 'Do you want a hand? I'd be glad to escape all these earnest wannabe highbrows,' I said. Anything to get out of cleaning up after they'd stuffed their self-opinionated faces. 'Come along then, come along. You can help me with ...

Gunner Gibbs. 'I'm neither your bruv or your luv, but I share your disappointment with the absence of any animal protein in the fare provided. Just look at the motley assemblage here tonight! Skinny, washed-out looking lot. Probably go round hugging trees and talking to their pot plants. There's a definite whiff of pot plants about them,' Bunty sniffed. I had to laugh. 'How did you come to be here tonight, Bunty? I thought you always went to ...

I Say a Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick

pretentious looking. Since Felicia had joined us, she'd been organising these 'intellectual lectures,' as she called them. I called them something quite different but since they attracted a large number of paying patrons, I kept my thoughts to myself. He waded straight into some spurious pseudo-science theory that the audience appeared to be lapping up. I snuck away and headed for ...

Oliver's Army. They said they didn't know that one and started singing ABBA's Dancing Queen instead. I rolled my eyes in disgust and went off to ...

A Little Good News ~ Anne Murray (good to see you back Muggles 🥰 When I was little, a friend wanted me to sing this song with her. I thought it was just a jumble of nonsense words, it wasn't until much later I deciphered it 😂)

Let the Rain Come Down ~ Toni Childs

undivided attention. I hoped she wasn't going to become a problem. I could do without Rosie doing her green-eyed monster impersonation all over again. But at this point, I needn't have worried. Rosie and new recruit Felicia were busy putting ...

Who'll Stop The Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival

the lengths some people will go to get a bacon sarnie. Some heartless person even observed, 'Let them eat cake! Pensioners were dropping like flies! It was at least two hours since their last cuppa. That was what the problem was. I could have told them!' It was pointless to argue with Bunty, she had one of those overbearing personalities. But for all that, you couldn't help ...

Don't Stop The Dance ~ Bryan Ferry

tamaryokucha and cherry blossoms? Full of antioxidants and Vitamins A, C and E and other health benefits.' 'I'm more of a builder's brew, myself, but each to their own,' Barnaby grinned. 'I'll try one of your cherry blothum and tamakucthery onth, Johnny,' said Petunia, fluttering her eyelashes at me, 'Thounds heavenly!' 'Load of nonsense!' declared Bunty, 'Good old strong black tea is all a body needs! Stand a spoon in it. Britain was built on it, gives a fellow a backbone, don't you know. Builds character. Can't be doing with all this namby pamby ...

Heart Of Gold ~ Neil Young

many literary pontifications one mere mortal can take.' Now here was a chap after my own heart. I thrust out my hand (which had almost recovered from Siegfreid's punishment ) and introduced myself as new employee, thoroughly sympathetic with his views and a fellow brew addict. 'Delighted to have a kindred spirit along,' he grinned. 'Biccie anyone?' I nodded, 'What exactly,' ...

Perhaps they feature more in the TV series than the book ( I haven't read the book).

Anyone Who Had a Heart ~ Dionne Warwick

flyers advertising a literary event to be held at The Cozy Book Nook and featuring Professor Pompillius Omicron, who was going to give a lecture titled Psychoanalytic Criticism of Post-structural Literary Contexts. 'Could you hand theth out to patherth by and pathe them on wallth pleath?' 'Do you think there'll be much ...

Gone To Earth by Mary Webb