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Excellent RJ.
Then again she could have been "Eaten in Ethiopia" as was Miss Marple's Aunt who was a missionary there in the 1930's.

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I still try to force a square peg into a round hole, tell Sweetie on my behalf.

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Aunt Phythians fame spread far and wide.

Below is a piece from GRANSNET, whatever that is

Just to put you in the picture, our dear Aunt Phythian will be 100 years of age next month.
She has not enjoyed good health in recent years .
This is due to a rare bronchial reaction to mites.
We think she picked them up from the exhibition long haired Angora rabbits which she kept for so many years. Many of us still have Tam O Shanters made by her with hand spun wool from the spinning wheel of her older sister Agnes .
Her life has been one of unselfish service to the community.
Made even more worthy of congratulations when you consider she had to bring up 17 children, on her own.
7 of them after the early and unfortunate death of her beloved husband Will.
As president and life member of the FARNHAM FAREHAM & FULHAM rabbit club she was an enthusiastic supporter
Always full of fun, she reacted with typical pragmatism when her hair fell out during the war.
The simple answer was typical of her no nonsense attitude to life. She simply trained long haired Peruvian guinea pigs to sit motionless on her head.
No one spotted this harmless deception and you have to give her credit for stopping when she discovered her pets suffered from vertigo.

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

the devil is in the detail Paul.

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That was jolly rude of me my chum.
I was thinking logically, something which us oldsters abandoned in 2012.

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One can never stop thinking logically old chap. One just has to accept the parameters on which the logic is based, get updated, once in a while.

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Ah-I see a bit of a competition has emerged,in which the provider of the longest multisyllabic single word is presented with a pair of Sweetie's laciest knic...er...gloves. Yes-I meant gloves! Honest!

Ok...so,I present you with ''Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia'' which is a medical term for a certain condition and is a word I learned by heart at the age of just twelve summers. To this day,I have no rational explanation why,other than,the word fascinated my young mind....

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Twelve summers eh?
Precocious little bugga weren't you!

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Thanks for that word Pugster, me lad, its priceless.

Save us all from having to google it & shock with the actual meaning SVP











Oh and , this predeliction towards ladies undies reminds me of that irascible journalist and general misery, John Junor (sic)
quote PASS THE SICK BAG ALICE unquote

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Robert be a devil and chuck pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis into the ring. That should cause social phobia or a fit of coughing at least