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I See Spain and learn Spanish the best way: Blue Sky ('entre noworganising student exchanges for next summer. All levels. I4 25 years. Phone: liast Kilbride 03552 38976.
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ITall quiet chap (25)sceking female company. I‘ldinbnrgh Iiast Lothian Berwickshire areas. Interests: cinema. rock concerts. travel. food. Not too overweight?! Ifyou're slightly crazy please w rite to Box .\'o 8312.
I Woman (31. divorced) wishes to meet genuine man with good sense of humour for relationship. Wide-ranging interests include theatre. film. music. eating in out etc. Box .\'o 83 2.
I Attractive female (so) with good sense of humour likes cinema. eating out. keep fit. Seeks similar male age 27—36 for good company. Edinburgh area apply Box No83 4.
I Woman aged 30 lidinburgli based wishes to meet down-to-earth man for friendship relationship. Interests include music. cinema. etc. Box 33 I3.
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I Good-natured manila) intelligent. goodlooking. funny.
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employ a Beechgrove gardener as an au pair. The solution was simple: a terrarium. Sad that its arrival should have fallen on stony ground. so to speak.
By now she was in spate. ‘I low would you like it if I gave you a plastic apron for your ( 'hristmas‘.". she asked. “When did I give you an
my forte. I am not what you might call an inspired shopper. Nor am I particularly brave. I am not. for instance. likely to volunteer for the version of the Japanese ‘Endurance‘ game that Janet Reger seems to have devised for Marks and Spencers this I festive season which requires the l male of the species to saunter I through a dense undergrowth of l cami-knickers.suspenderbeltsand i l
apron I" "I’he same year you gave me the pot stand and the wooden spoon.‘ ‘You know I am a fervent believer in (‘hristmas bonuses'. I said and ducked. She came at me with a list as long as an ape's arm: Elizabeth David's ling/[sh Bread aml Yeast ( bakery. an Indian smock that made her look nine months pregnant. a soda syphon. a garlic press. two soup plates decorated with dragons and a dozen black and pink plastic tulips. In a way I thought it rather impressive. like the litany of prizes in Bruce Forsy'th‘s (ieneration (iame. ‘And the album ofSpanish guitar music‘. she said. sunk in afterthought. ‘But I thought you wanted the Spanish guitar music.‘ I said. ‘I did’. she said. ‘but you got the wrong guitarist.‘
How was I to know Hank Marvin was Spanish? ‘Is that the lot then'.". I ' asked. ‘or are there any others you‘d like to get off your chest'." ‘Well.' she said. ‘I can‘t think ofothers. They were all so impressive they‘ve paled into insignificance.‘
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' problems. ‘You can't just say that‘. I said when the word of disaffection reached me at the frontier of knowledge. ‘without backing it up.‘ Hoping to gradgrind her down. I said. ‘What I want is Facts. nothing but Facts!‘ ‘Well‘. she said. on a starter for ten. ‘while we're talking about Facts. there was the hand-me-down Filofax you gave me when you bought yourself that rubber one with elephantiasis.‘ This was difficult to refute so I pressed her for more examples. "I‘hen what about the terrarium‘." she asked. less
teddies (the ones Roosevelt had no hand in) as if he was Gene Kelly in Singin‘ in the Rain. the object being. apparently. to spend as much as possible to cover as little as possible. Now I‘m not one to harp on what has happened to the true spirit of Christmas but I can‘t help wondering what all this lingerie has to do with Mary and Joe checking in to Bethlehem‘s Holiday Inn a couple of millennia ago. Was this. I ask myself. why shepherds abandoned their flocks to the wolves. why wise men left their catamites. why etcetera‘.’ But that's one for the boys in dog collars to sort out. I have my own
fearful ofcontradiction than Adolf addressing the Nuremberg rally. The terrariurn is a sore point. For as far back as memory can take me one of my many onerous household tasks has been watering the plants. Some withered and died. others did not flourish with neglect. The situation was becoming critical: we . were using up all the oxygen in the l flat and there were no plants to replace it. What we needed was a . nursery to bring on tender young l shoots and a home where plants could survive without having to
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