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Old 25th Sep 2020, 11:00
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FlightlessParrot
 
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Originally Posted by fauteuil volant
Surely everyone knows who was furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun - whether they are a love struck subaltern or not. Tally ho!
I was rather surprised to discover that that was her real name. And the locale is, of course, apt too. You are obviously holding back, Armchair of the Skies. I don't suppose it would help anyone else if I were to reveal that the designer wrote a revolutionary book on dry fly trout fishing, designing his flies by considering how they would look from the trout's point of view. A man of quite remarkably diverse talents.
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