things faces friends
places oh my goodness look at that years
and moments half forgotten laughs fears
songs tears memories are absolutely made
of
these
I remember a time the 20 is I really do
remember I'm afraid I need to try and
remember some of the girls I knew then
Pam and Enid and DNE and of course any
resemblance to persons living or dead
you know anyway here it is then the 20s
me and my
friend
da and I went to schools in different
counties but otherwise the things we
learned and did were more or less the
same we were all frightfully keen on
games eeka we called it exercise you
see
because it was the 20s and women were
all out to refute the fact that it was a
man's world there seemed great emphasis
on Sport and Cricket of all things in
particular de's games mistress Miss
horseall used to say that a a straight B
through life fears no fast rers and Miss
horseall ought to know I mean look at
her
de lived in a really top house in London
D's Dad they were divorced or separated
or something you know sort of exciting
like that D's dad was in oil or whatever
it was and it was fabulous I mean they
had well pots and pots absolutely
rolling
daff's older sister Muriel was potty
about Hobbies she made teac cozies for
bazaars and did barbola work I think
that was a sort of making fruit and
flowers out of wax to go around old tins
and wastepaper
baskets she could of course have bought
anything she wanted but well that wasn't
the
idea sometimes it was hats made of crepe
paper she bought the shape as it were
and then would have a spiffing Time
decorating it she found the whole thing
worthwhile it released something basic
in
her all the same with all that paper
about it was just as well she didn't
smoke what a different world in the 20s
than it is today a woman doctor said at
the time if British economic conditions
don't allow for large families then
people ought to go and have them in the
wide open spaces of the Empire so
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there of course you had to listen to all
kinds of funny things at a time when
women were just beginning to have a real
say and as thanks to the war there were
tens of thousands more women than men
the male sex was not only outnumbered
but pretty well shouted down
I don't think politics came into DA's
sister's life much on the other side of
the
park it's just one gay wh as soon as I
put my foot in Picadilly this morning
the
wedding how sweet she looked that young
Duke of York has done well for himself
and for
Britain but those crowds made me all
behind like the cow's tail if I hadn't
been given a lift I should never have
got to the Dress
makers and then of course because I was
late it was all fums but I do have to
admit I did make the Poor Man simply
Whizz
round just time then to have my Jolly o
face done well if I hadn't been there
where would I have got all the latest
you know the
chitchat then one mad rush back in ATT
taxi to
dress so much for DA's sister Muriel by
day by Night came the real climax a
climax for which many minutes of
tireless preparation had to be expended
at the height of the Season wherever she
went it was always incumbent on death's
sister to look absolutely
spiting
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and so they would gather at the cocktail
hour but what is it to be tonight a
dinner party followed up by Bridge
auction of course or would it be Mar
Jong but from what they tell me DA's
sister was never terribly good at Mar
Jong she always got her walls mixed up
with her
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winds
like as not it would be an evening at
the theater not too serious or highbrow
for death's sister of course though she
had broken many a shoulder strap with
emotion over Owen
NS Jack Buchanan was very much my cup of
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tea after the show an hour or so at one
of their those new cavales the midnight
follow is at the oh what hotel was it
they pulled it down yes I
know that was the world of death's
sister and how she did manage to pack it
all into 24 hours was indeed something
to be wondered
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