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straight towards a brick wall and it was best he didn't see what was coming. Luckily, at the last minute ....

Find this band quite intriguing

' 'cuse me,' he said politely, 'nature calls.' Locking the door of the gents, he climbed out the window and right into the arms of .........

if he'd ever been out of the country. 'South Africa,' replied Dex, 'would you like me to tell you about it?' It sounded a bit more exciting than football, and crime novels would really just be a busman's holiday for a PI. 'Sure. Did you fly?'

so preoccupied that instead of a bowl of peanuts, he handed her an ashtray. Petrel looked at him a little strangely and shook her head, 'No thanks, I don't.' Dex took a butt and chewed on it abstractedly, thinking he'd have a quiet word with the bartender later about the staleness of his peanuts. Places like this appreciated a little helpful feedback he always thought. Dragging himself back into the here and now he asked Petrel, 'So what do you like to do for ............

it rather has the effect of making names go clean out of one's mind. So tell me Petrel, what do you do back home? A model perhaps?' Petrel laughed that laugh that Dex found so attractive. 'No, you flatter me, I'm a private investigator.' It was Dex's turn to ...........

Dex .....meek??? Poppy staggered back a couple of steps and only narrowly missed standing on Shanti's tail. Her mouth gaped in a way rather reminiscent of a goldfish out of water. 'Well, all will be forgiven if you shout me a couple of Margarita's or don't you have something called Sex on the Beach?' asked Petrel innocently. "Ahem, bit cold for that tonight, m'dear, perhaps some other time.' 'They use a lot of ice do they?' Dex was beginning to lose the thread of the conversation.

'Yes, I know Petrel, it sucks to be stood up, but maybe something happened. He could have had an accident, he might have stepped out in front of a double decker or fallen down a manhole or been abducted by slave traders. You'd never know these days!' 'You're right!! I think we should check the local hospitals, he may have amnesia!' Petrel rushed out the door crashing straight into Dex. As they were of similar height, their heads collided with a rather sickening thunk kind of noise rendering them both ............

Long Ago ~ Herbs (a bit of Kiwiana)

Petrel's arrival with barely supressed impatience. Glancing at his watch at about 30 second intervals, the time drags on. Still no Petrel and it's getting very cold now. Dex shivers in his trench coat and unsuccessfully tries to pull his fedora over his numb ears. His thoughts about the reliability of women again take on a cynical and pessimistic turn. At 9.03 pm he decides .............

'Why, hello Dex, nice to meet you,' and she held out her hand to shake his. Dex pulled a fluff covered sausage roll from his pocket and plonked it in her hand. ' Petrel laughed, it was such a lovely melodic laugh, so unlike Trixie's donkey bray, Dex thought. 'I think you'll find that's called a sausage roll, Dex, a sausage has no pastry .....circumcised as it were.' Dex tried to ....

slathered in marg.' He surreptitiously pocketed a couple for afters and thought with relief how there was no Bertrand now to be sniffing round his pockets, growling menacingly and generally making a darned nuisance of himself. He rather missed the little blighter .....and the delightful Tints. 'Ah women,' he mused, 'can't live with them, can't .....' In sashayed Petrel. Dex's jaw dropped .....

only a violation of established contextual, social or cultural norms. I hypothesize that crime varies in it's acceptance depending on one's socio-economic background. Take for instance .....' 'Grub's up,' interrupted Poppy, Itsme threw her a grateful look. 'Looks appetising,' Dex sounded surprised. 'What is it exactly?'

Come Down In Time ~ Elton John

Peaceful Easy Feeling ~ The Eagles

a woman. He mused over this thought for quite some time and felt that there must be a flaw in his logic somewhere, but he was getting tired now and his usually razor-sharp mental faculties were not in tip-top working order. Luckily, he wasn't far from Itsme's. He'd ask him. He pulled into his drive and .......

Cadbury and Whitakers chocolate. After all, Whitakers was started by those down under upstarts but you had to admit that that Creamy Milk of theirs was pretty damned good. Even the sexy Nigella waxed lyrical http://youtu.be/J2xkc07SczA With chocolate uppermost on his mind, and all thoughts of spoiling his appetite for supper dismissed, he pulled into the next store and bought a pile of .........

Let Me Down Easy ~ Paolo Nutini

or his favourite maxim, 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder .....so get lost for a while!' If he put his foot down, he thought, he could make it in a couple of hours, just in time for supper. He hoped it wouldn't be all that humbug and carrot stick stuff or whatever it was called, hum something anyway, that Itsme liked. He stuck a Paradise Lost CD in the player to cheer himself up and .........

Very nice! I guess a warm jacket or coat is really important in the US, especially the colder parts. It rarely gets below -7 C or 20 F where I live and that's only after a good frost and then the day warms up.

Yorkshire is a hotbed of gruesome serial killers, rapists, arsonists and indecent exposure cases ....purely in the literary sense, of course. Auntie Maud went straight out and booked a holiday there, bless her heart.' Seemingly a penchant for the macabre was a hereditary thing. With that, Dex adjusted his fedora to a fetching angle, pulled on his trenchcoat and ........

Friday, you've got all weekend to find out who decapitated the victim and hid his severed head amongst the .........

Show Me The Place ~ Leonard Cohen

Pneumonia's no trifling matter Calexa, take care and give yourself time to get over it. As far as the date goes .....what have you got to lose? I think it would be a very uncommon person who didn't find you interesting Hope your cold doesn't come to anything Muggles. That must have been a very special jacket you were after

Itsme. However Dex had never fully recovered from his favourite café taking the all day breakfast off the menu. 'Do you think we should invite Dex around? Cheer him up after Trixie's decamping? You never know, he might hit it off with one of the new girls. Give him a ring.' Itsme ......