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Dec. 6th, 2012 11:30 pmMy grandmother on my future employment by the diocese of Wakefield:
I've never been there myself, but my mother's uncle was drowned there, cutting a branch of palm* that was hanging over the river for his sweetheart. My mother would never have it in the house after that. [PAUSE]. So there's a definite family connection there.
* No idea. I think she said 'palm'; I'm guessing it's a dialect term I don't know, but I couldn't get a word in edgeways to ask -
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Addenbrooks surgery department had knocked off for the day by the time I got hold of Lawyer. In other news, I am beginning to go into a complete panic about getting ready to move back to Cambridge - and the sermon I failed to finish this afternoon is just dire, what there is of it.
*sticks straws in hair*
I've never been there myself, but my mother's uncle was drowned there, cutting a branch of palm* that was hanging over the river for his sweetheart. My mother would never have it in the house after that. [PAUSE]. So there's a definite family connection there.
* No idea. I think she said 'palm'; I'm guessing it's a dialect term I don't know, but I couldn't get a word in edgeways to ask -
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Addenbrooks surgery department had knocked off for the day by the time I got hold of Lawyer. In other news, I am beginning to go into a complete panic about getting ready to move back to Cambridge - and the sermon I failed to finish this afternoon is just dire, what there is of it.
*sticks straws in hair*