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Originally posted by tinkerman
is it yours?
Tink, I can't remember if I confided in you during the summer but, Hermione has flown the family nest and is now living with her lesbian friends in Belgravia and Rupert, a spiffing fellow, has gone down to Oxford before he takes up his commission at Sandhurst.
So the present Mrs Stephen and I are finding the place just a tad on the large side now. Well to be perfectly honest my dear chap, that's not the real reason.
As you may know, there is a recession on here in the UK and I'm afraid the fish finger business is not immune to it's affects. Times are hard. Over this last while we have had to let all of the staff go. Jim the gardener hung up his spade a fortnight ago, Mrs Bridges cooked her last home made haggis only last next and things have got so bad that I fear that Giles, my faithful manservant, will have to go this week.
Be a good chap and don't spend so much time in the sun, I'm beginning to think that it is affecting your reasoning
