The late Barbara Cartland's make up
L
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Bill is there anything deeper than romance ?????
P
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Could be romance, Pat, could be deeper and wider than she would like.
Bill
On 22/11/2012, at 3:23 AM, Patrick McManus
wrote:
> Cheers Bill I wonder what those wider matters were that she was
taking in?
> aha could it be romance??
> P
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> About to emerge
> through a spring-latch door
> on to the shopping street,
> he suddenly remembers;
> her muesli. Where is it?
> Wait here, he says,
> to his endearingly
> dumpy-faced, red-haired,
> trusting companion.
>
> In the street, he strides,
> retracing footsteps
> towards the upper
> milkbar on the other side.
> But he doesn't need
> to go that far.
> There the muesli is,
> untampered-with,
> in its clear plastic sheathing,
> sitting on an old postbox.
>
> Now the two walk together,
> he announcing this is East Ivanhoe,
> she nodding slowly, accepting.
> Which way should I now go,
> he wonders: past the primary school
> or up Robin Hood Road?
> They met at work in the office,
> only a week ago and now
> he's walking her home,
> the long way.
>
> Outside his house, the Catalpa,
> huge leaves bearing the marks
> of autumn; one leaf is emblem
> of all seasons, edged deep green,
> flecked with orangy-yellow
> and thorough crimson at its
> heart. See it, he says.
> She nods dumbly, she is still
> taking in wider matters.
>
> In the front yard, good,
> his promised car, is there,
> albeit leaf-covered,
> nestled under the willow tree.
>
>
> Bill Wootton
> 21November 12
>
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