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The Nanny Seemed To Be Extinct Until 1975, When, Like The Coelacanth, She Suddenly And Unexpectedly Reappeared In The Shape Of Margaret Thatcher.

When You Visit A Foreign City You Are In It, But Not Of It, Separated By A Glass Wall. Once, While A Student, I Was Getting Dressed In My Ground-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

Canada Is Not So Much A Country As A Clothesline Nearly 4,000 Miles Long. St John's In Newfoundland Is Closer To Milan, Italy Than To Vancouver.

Fish Have Water, The Bushmen Of The Kalahari Have Sand, And Houstonians Have Interior Décor.

Corney & Barrow Are Proud To Have The Royal Warrant, Meaning That They Provide The Palace With Some Of The Greatest - And Necessarily Most Expensive - Wines From Around The World. I Am Pleased To Say That They Also Hold My Own Warrant, For Providing Exceptional Wines At - Surprisingly - Modest Prices.