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Sunday 16 December 2012

I said to my new found friend...

as we sat partaking of a leisurely luncheon in 
No 8,  Gillygate, York, 
'I've looked high and low for the elusive Nilly Hall!'
' I know her!' 
she dropped like a bombshell into the conversation.
Peeling myself from the linoleum...
(well glasses of wine had been 'drunk')
'Wot?'
I replied in my very best Estuary English...
(Kentish maid... Dartford born and bred... me!)
My gob had never been more smacked.

I ought to explain...
Had a 'orrible feeling you would!
My new found friend is Jean*
ebayer extraordinaire
who I met eons ago, 
when I bought the most wondrous
carpet bag. 



A carpet bag Aladdin would have  
been pleased to carry, business class of course.
 I have never been disappointed by my purchases from jbugsy1, 
her generosity knows no bounds.

Knowing I was coming up to York, I sneakily 
bought some fabric from her.
' Don't send it!'  I airily replied.
'Save money on the postage, I'll meet you in York!'
No guesses whose gob was smacked this time!

' Oh shit!'  
reverberated all the way from Leeds to Kent.
She had no escape, poor lass.

Nilly, my advice to you is... hope I never find you!


* Jean lives in Leeds; don't be put off by her listings having 'from Turkey' on them.  
There is obviously a glitch in ebay's system.

Errr... I've just hit the link and no blooming mention of 'From Turkey'.  The glitch is obviously in my system... no surprise there LL!






2 comments:

  1. Has anybody out there understood this epistle? Well I don't mind admitting, I've written it, and even I can't make head nor tail of it!

    Happy Days,

    LLX

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  2. LL - I am so intrigued! Jean, Jean, do I know a Jean? (apart from the one in 2A whose family served me up jellied eels & celery when I went to tea and who married a Methodist minister.)In which sense I wonder, does she know me - in ebay world, the real world...? Jean???????
    This MUST be someone who knows me and Mr N from the High Class Antiques Events we frequent...
    Is it?
    Is it?

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