Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts

Monday, 10 December 2012

Bless the rains down in Africa



It began to rain, coming down in stair-rods that pitted the mud like buckshot . . .



Flashman on the March, p.222, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Friday, 6 July 2012

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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