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AMBASSADRESS: Losing a few feathers

09.00 and I'm careeririg distributes tlie guide book trained heads swivelling to bly have been written by
down the stairs tmee at a (laboriously written by for- left and right. Not a hat in Gei'mans? I appreciate that it
time, late as risual, i'essed mer ambassadors seeking sight. Black sunglasses will is on occasion easier to
from head to toe in fiuyereal their place in the annals of be worn instead, this year. rhyme a verb than otl'ier
black. Beliatted and beglo- literature), knocks them sen- This being suriunertime, tlie fonns of speech, but coinci-
ved. Hat shedding fake seless with dates and useless Italians all resplendent in dental is this not? "He
ostrich feathers all the way anecdotes, then sends them white. Feel like a moulting Maketh me down to Lie" is
to tlie ground floor. Beagle off with a warm glow occa- crow. not tl'ie smoothest syntax in
in liot prirsuit-since when sioned by the consumption the book. Nor, for that mat-
are beagles supposed to hunt of a large glass of something The problem about sitting in ter, does "Tlie King of Love
ostriches? In this day and and a selection of cook's the front row is that rinless my Shepherd Is" trip parti-
age of aniinal and political delicacies. you have a particularly cularly lightly off the ton-
correctness, I suppose the rmderstanding priest or par- gue.
genes have had to adapt to 09.02. Suitably restrained son person you cannot rely
anything they can get. Even stniles (I am on my way to a on the inevitable little odd With such profound reflec-
dead (and fake) osti'iches. funeral, after all) exchan- lady singing falsetto in front tions did I engage my mind
09.01 and I slam straiglit ged, I hit the front door and of you wlio always knows during what little remained
into a group of visitors from huttle off to the first funeral exactly when to stand, sit or of tlie sei'vice.
sotne Fine Arts and Cultural of the week. Must be tl'ie kneel. It is rather like being
Aspirations Society passing global wanniiig. Falling off in tlie front row of a new Back liome and Beagle was
througli Europe and 011 tbeir their perches in all direc- Step class at the gym when lurking guiltily under a table
way to St Petersburg with tions. you can only hope and pray with black featliers sprori-
just time for a brief detour that all eyes are on the ting from between her front
tin:ough tny sitting room to 09.48.5. Did not make it to instructor and nobody is teeth. By tlie end of the
adtnire the objets-d'art. the churcli on time and, noticing wl'iat a cock up you moxitli the faitMil black liat
worse, was encoriraged to are making of the procee- will be plucked and ready
On these occasions, guests take rip my rightful place in dings. Pretty forlorn hope for tlie pot!
are consigned to the expeit the front row regardless of when you are cowering
care of an administrative detertnined protestations. beneatli a quivering plume
officer wlio lias perfected Longest aisle of any it lias of ostrich featliers. And ano-
his technique over many been my privilege to clack ther thing. Has anybody out
years of handling the resoundingly up or down there considered whether all
cut'ioris or obstreperoris. He within dying memory. Un- our liyinns miglit conceiva-
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