Garden group, just 7 miles from my home, had an outdoor meeting set up. Halfway through, heavy rain stopped play and lasted long enough to make it impossible to return outside (but not long enough to do anything but slightly freshen the air). At home, nada.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I had and Auntie Fanny. She called herself Fiona when Fanny became a rude word. She never married and lived until she was 107. I do recall that she gave me some very saucy books when I was about 14 and when Mum found out and tackled her about it she chuckled and said one has to "gather ye pleasures while ye may, never mind rosebuds"😂
I think it was the Two Ronnies, in one of their News Desk sketches, who said that due to an electrical failure and the need to use alternative lighting, 'Hair' will be known as 'Fanny by Gaslight'.
A football commentator was giving his views on the fact that referees have been told to permit more physical challenges. He had the nerve to say that we'd got 'the man's game back' or words to that effect. You'd think he'd committed mass murder from the reaction. I think everybody knows exactly what he meant, but the usual suspects immediately take offence.
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Is it like believing in fairies? Is it all my fault?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Those Victorians ... WARNING: look away now if of a nervous disposition
- Fanny Blows, born Cambridge 1860
- Fanny Diver, born Suffolk 1838
- Fanny Eater, Hampstead 1841
- Henrietta Fanny, Cheshire 1871
- Nora Fanny, Essex 1901
- Fanny Lick, Hastings 1891
- Fanny Gush, Devon 1871