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Eddie Mair | 14:27 UK time, Thursday, 6 September 2007

cards from Aperitif - one from the Lake District and one of a Common Frog.

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And "a frogger" sends this from Mull.

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Comments

  1. At 03:04 PM on 06 Sep 2007, Vyle Hernia wrote:

    Appy -

    Antsome; as I say when in Cornwall.

  2. At 03:23 PM on 06 Sep 2007, RJD wrote:

    That's Aperitif's own handwriting on that first card. Not her accent though - but she does speak in a equally odd way. I'm really glad I don't have an identifiable accent.

  3. At 04:19 PM on 06 Sep 2007, wrote:

    how common......a frog

  4. At 05:12 PM on 06 Sep 2007, Emily Dickinson wrote:

    How dreary - to be - Somebody!
    How public - like a Frog -
    To tell one's name - the livelong June -
    To an admiring Bog!

  5. At 05:27 PM on 06 Sep 2007, wrote:

    (Assumes best Lady Bracknell voice.)

    (Note to reader: this is an over-acting Lady Bracknell and the following line is not to be delivered in the understated manner of Dame Judy Dench in the mov, err, the flim. I do not have her presence to carry off understated.)

    A common frog?

    Shume mishtake shurely?

  6. At 06:01 PM on 06 Sep 2007, wrote:

    Emily, how lovely (and yes it does scan to The Yellow Rose of Texas too :) )

  7. At 07:51 PM on 06 Sep 2007, Gillian wrote:

    I'd like to think the warning sign had a comma missing and was placed to face the field:
    Tek care lambs, ont road

  8. At 10:24 PM on 06 Sep 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Not even the right accent for the Lakes is it?

    Gillian (7), I hope so too :-)

  9. At 01:15 PM on 07 Sep 2007, Charlie wrote:


    ..I see my picture is being used...

    I don't mind not being asked for consent, but I DO MIND being referred to as "Common..."

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