Think of the hooting, man. Do you really want that 24 hours a day?
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…well, oi just “…couldn’t swaller fer larfin’¹”, as one character might put it!
¹ aksherly, I think I meant choking, as in 
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Anyone moved by the heart-to-heart between David and his mummy?
Thought not. Brace yerselves for the proposal, folks, which Jill will turn down, making Leonard feel a right idiot. Which he partly deserves for letting Jill be the last to know. Only partly, because no one deserves the ghastly Brookfield Archers.
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My stomach lurched a bit, Janie: does that count?
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Yes, same here. The only thing to be thankful for is that it wasn’t David-and-Pip.
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Crikey, yes. We got off lightly.
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I am hoping she will turn down marriage but say she’d be delighted if he asked her to move in with him.
It will be a vain hope though, I’m afraid.
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So far…
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I don’t believe 18th birthdays were a Thing 72 years ago; the age of majority was 21 until 1970. It may have been a purely coincidental photo of an entirely random birthday that the hooting old fool had found - and no doubt that is what tbtb would claim if confronted - but the dialogue about ‘beginning’ suggested otherwise.
What DO the SWs know anything about?
How different in essentials is a really good cream tea from a foam party anyway?
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They absolutely were not. Not even when I had one they were not.
And anyhow, why would Jill not already have been the person who had her old photographs?
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The booze is much better.
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Not sure whether you’ve been going to the wrong cream teas or the wrong foam parties, Sparrer darlin’.
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Oh! It was foam parties they were talking about. I’d never heard of such a thing so I thought they were talking about phone parties and I couldn’t make sense of that.
Now I just have to wonder about foam parties, and I suspect my imagination may turn them into more than the reality.
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But… just…
Why?
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So the boys can grope the girls and not be seen doing it, I expect.
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Hmm, in my day we just turned the lights off. That way you could drink and grope, I should think drinking is trickier in all that foam.
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I applaud your priorities, me dear ;- )
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Does anyone believe Jill would have said anything like ‘just being in a space with people’? Because I do bluddy not.
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Maybe it was “I’d like all of you people just to be in space” and got slightly garbled on the way out?
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