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AMBASSADRESS: Ageing Gracefully

It is said that a reliable field in which, by this stage and oriental rugs. current financial situation
indication that one is not in their lives, they mostly could be considered an
getting any younger is the have a certain degree of Dog in question is now investment. I trust H.E. will
expectation that any minute expertise. Personally, I thirteen years old, so has take that into account when
now policemen will be consider it to be ill-timed. been with us long enough to next he pays the bills for the
ludicrously expensive anti-
wearing short trousers. contemplate
retirement
Equally reliable is the After half a century of herself or at least to act her inflammatory pills she takes
realisation that one has been knocking back the duty-free, age. If you approach her to relieve her arthritis. They
invited to an inordinate why wait until you have to with one of those little seem to work: she gives the
number of farewell parties pay the full price to get machines they use to check crows a hard time, anyway.
in recent months to seriously stuck into that radiation levels on your
celebrate one's chers game? vegetables in the Moscow Ageing Ambassadresses,
imminent
collègues' markets, she beeps dis- you ask?
retirement. Then there are those who concertingly, proving to the
profess over-loudly to world that she is micro- They, mostly, are reduced to
If a woman approaching the desiring nothing more than a chipped, rabies-proofed, writing sardonic columns in
menopause can be likened to little peace and quiet and the tattooed and whatever else is the hope that someone will
a Rottweiler in lipstick, an opportunity to play a round required to keep undesirable read them.
Ambassador nearing retire- or six of golf each week. elements at bay. It took six
ment must feel like a These in reality have months at twenty Euros per Gn-rr. Must go and renew
pampered peacock about to probably spent their last diem for a dog sitter to get my lipstick.
be released into the months in service desperate- her into the country original-
company of carrion crows. ly trying to get their names ly, so she is now worth her
and especially titles on to weight in gold and in the
Men, however, have various various sheets of headed
ways of dealing with the fast notepaper, in order that their
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in the form of some
Some retire more or less consultancy or honorary
az a.t eg
gracefully maintaining they presidentship. This is not so
just cannot wait to get out to hard to achieve. I am told by
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Chiantishire and hand pick a well-informed girlfriend
the grapes or stand around that my own resident H.E. is
all night making sure the apparently on the committee 0'
local peasants, who have of an erudite international
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now, are only pressing animal welfare. A fact of
exclusively their master's which he is totally unaware,
olives instead of throwing luckily, for although Beagle
them in with the inferior is a tolerated presence in our
withered up specimens from household, it cannot be said
the absentee farmer next that he feels any kind of
door. Others simply head for affinity with other four-
the nearest armchair with a legged beasts, prone as they Tuesday. 17 November 2009, PALAIS DES N S - Geneva
International Annual Bazaar and Lottery
crate of gin and never look are to shedding excessive
back -- and it has to be said amounts of fur and mud all
in their defence that this is a over his hand-made suits

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