A besotted grandparent

I’d much have preferred going to watch Nala Damajanti and her Amazing Snakes at the Palace, or the corsetted fat bottoms and tits in George Edwardes’ show, but being a besotted grandparent I’d have let my little Selina coax me into watching three hours of steady rain and been happy.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.289, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Crowning reward

      I came back from the dark storm of Harper’s Ferry to the peaceful sunshine of Leicestershire, and the four small faces regarding me with the affectionate impatience that is the crowning reward of great-grandfatherhood .  . .  and the only pang is that at ninety-one you can’t hope to see ’em grow.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.14, Harper Collins, 1995.



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