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Cytherea

MABEL: I am now faced with a difficulty Ursula, which is better perhaps to confess than gloss over.
URSULA: Oh Mabel, you must keep looking left and right into the indelible footprints of truth; unenticed by flowers; regardless of shade...we cannot accept poems just because she wrote them!
MABEL: But Cytherea is such a successful practitioner in the art of life.
URSULA: Yes, but they are ...

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Mabel's Basque Man and the Stolen Cowshed Romance of Josie the Viking Princess

I don't get to keep any (young) man for too long and especially when that Josie the Viking Princess steals (most) of my dramatic thunder. This Gorka the Great, swept into my cowshed and mangle life like a twin tub on double rev and Princess Josie got between us, like washing line sheets blowing in my egotistical wind...so, back to the bottom of the washing basket (no Basque men in there!)

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Mabel and the Tiger in a Toy Ice cream Van of Extreme Excitement!!!

It's been a long time since I had a decent ice-cream and Daljit Nagra has invited me to the launch of  Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! with the promise of a Mr. Whippy!!! He's promised this pleasure before mind, so I'm going to keep him to it. I don't tend to leave Swindon on a whim. 'Bring rolling pin just in case the ice cream is too lumpy and needs smoothing ...

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