Whoops! The pewter mug was given to me by colleagues of Coventry City
Library in 1960. The bottle of brandy which accompanied it has long
since "evaporated", but doubtless both were meant to comfort me on
returning to "The Midlands, which are sodden and unkind" (to quote
Belloc - I think) after several years in sunny Cyprus.
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Dr Edward R. Reid-Smith
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Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia
phone: +61 (02) 6921.4759
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