Did anyone else have a book of six short stories for ‘O’ level (late sixties)? My problem is I cannot figure out which of the following seven was not one of them!
Odour of Chrysanthemums - DH Lawrence
The Lumber Room - Saki
The Daughters of the Late Colonel - Katherine Mansfield
The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster
A Horseman in the Sky - Ambrose Bierce
The Stolen Cigar Case - Bret Harte
David Swan - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which reminds me of
“I’ve been married six months. She looks like a million dollars, but she only knows a hundred and twenty words and she’s only got two ideas in her head. The other one’s hats.”
And I got to go home. I got to go right home. I got to go right home this very minute. And there’s nothing new about it now. It’s just dull. Everything you got to do over and over again is dull. And life is just doing things over and over again. It’s dull, see? Awful dull.
I offer you also “With heavy steps Sir Matthew left the room and spent the morning designing mausoleums for his enemies.”
Spongeless trifle made
No ducks cake or sherry
However a bit of port was accidentally splashed into the fruit to help it defrost!
Did the poor fellow not have a chainsaw?
Seems not; this was in pre-clipper days.
No, the ships!
Your modern one-person chainsaw really only happens in the late 1940s. Before that they’re baroque and extremely heavy.
Am going outside to sweep up any remaining broken glass. I have telephoned the relevant department at the Town Hall, & am assured that, under the latest regulations, it can go in the Recycling box.
I may be some time…
Carinthia.xx
Good luck!
Am back, just as itizz starting to rain again.
I couldn’t get the car out until I had checked it again.
Carinthia.xx
Chinese style chicken breast here tonight wiv onions & mushrooms.
Don’t tell The Oaf…
Carinthia.xx
Or the bee - oops, you did.
\____/ <----me plate.
Soo xx
\______/ <----- Here’s one I made earlier… 
Carinthia.xx
A Beely glow
How lovely
Carinthia.xx
Harrumph
My trifle has been spurned
That means the Bull is on a diet of low fat high fibre low sugar food
And the freezer will be emptied of ice lollies and ice cream
I will larn him to spurn a treat wot I made
I’ll help!
Selfless, me.
What was the reason for the experiment with the trifle, Twellsy?
I swear that wars have been fought over Fambly Recipes forrit, rather like the allegiance to a particular Butcher fer Porky Pie
My Mother used trifle sponges. Some spread them with jam, but not at our house, not never.
I could keep the discussion going for hours with my late friend Jeannie… 
Carinthia.xx
My Mother used (just the once) plain flour sponge in a trifle. She had made this in error and simply couldn’t waste it.
Time forra bee bed. Best nights, cellarites.
Soo xx
