Sir Magnus Ramping-Fumitory

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

I wonder what would have happened if an Indian army had returned the compliment and invaded England-'right, you lot, you're all Indian now.'

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

It's the word Soviet; it's such a prosaic, utilitarian, PC word, both in sound and meaning. Workers-Council Asia ? How dull is that ? Of course, for all I know, Cameroon may be the Cameroon word for something similar.

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Louisa van der Luyden says

Defender of the defenseless - I see! Such a good read, I can't imagine why this has gone out of print.

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

Well, I can't say that you'd never be asked them here, but it's highly unlikely-I never have been. I don't know why this should be. A hangover from the colonial era, I think.

I hope that you don't have a Gollum haircut. It's a look that...well, it's not a very flattering one, even as a cool summer style.

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Louisa van der Luyden says

That he is! I'm sure he has all the best intentions, and he must have looked splendid in that maharaja outfit. I've arrived at the Unicorn and Harp, we're looking into Rosy's past lives. Wonderful to be back in Durrell's animal world!

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

(eavesreading) Yes, in NZ it would be considered an unwarrantable intrusion, almost like asking someone how old they are or what they earn or how much they have in the bank.

It is quite acceptable to tell someone that they've lost weight if they were fat to begin with, even someone you hardly know. But not that they've put it on.

Why would you look like Gollum ?

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Lord Manleigh says

I suppose so, but it's usually tacky if the person is heavy, not slender. But I take you are looking like Gollum these days?

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Lord Manleigh says

How are those tests and trials going, dear Friend?

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Lord Manleigh says

Ooo! Don't forget your Bart.!

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Louisa van der Luyden says

Lord Fenneltree, is it? I've just made his acquaintance! Any messages for this ancestor of yours?

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

Uzbekistan ??? I assumed it to be Arabian, a desert oasis.Old stone buildings and souks and hookahs.Geography was never my best subject. (remembers the history mistress comingh into a geog class to request an atlas 'to convince my 6th form girls that Israel's in Africa.' Maybe it's a girl thing.)

Remember in Absent in the Spring when the heroine is surprised that mirage is just that illusion of shimmering water-we have that, forsooth-and not an optical illusion of an oasis with wells and trees and even buildings ? Not that I ever thought that it was THAT (cough)

Have you read The Sheik ? If one has to live in the desert, a silk-hung tent with its own bathroom and library and such luxuries would be the way to do it.

J says it's in Soviet Asia; how prosaic that sounds. Soviet is such a utility sounding word, somehow. Like Leningrad instead of St Petersburg. In one of Iris Murdoch's books, she imagines Natasha Rostov walking down the Nevsky Prospekt. Possible, I suppose.

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

Shoe pastry (dies laughing at own wit)

Laced with....(can't continue)

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Lord Manleigh says

I've also become obsessed with genealogy. Not my own - Lord Manleigh's. I have been working on a very surprising family tree that has amused me to no end and will you, too, when I share it with you. Cousin.

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

Sole food.

Did you google the readings ? They did sound good, very mellifluous.

I don't know if Flecker invented the saying 'The Golden Road to Samarkand', but doesn't it make you want to drop everything and go on it ? In a caravan, of course-I mean a Hassan-type caravan, not what we mean. 'We take the golden road to Samarkand.' Was there ever such an evocative phrase ?

I don't even know where Samarkand is, but I want to go there ! It's like Mark Twain and the spring-fever.

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Lord Manleigh says

Stressed, my dear, terribly stressed. And yet not seeming to be able to go to bed. Dreadful pattern.

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Dame Lady Hermione ffotheringhay-ffeatherstonehaugh DCA ,RAC etc says

Remember the glittering Oriental shoes that you said you'd eat if a modern production of Hassan was made-or words to that effect ?

I don't remember your actually doing so. These are not Oriental, but they're glittering.

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Fantasy Fan 23 says

Saw your mention of Dodger, have you read it? It's next on my list of Artful Dodger books to read. The sample on Amazon looks encouraging.

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Lord Manleigh says

Quait exotic!

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Lord Manleigh says

Oh, you've got your 'fro on again.

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Lord Manleigh says

Oh, you've got your 'fro on again.

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