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CAUGHT SPEEDING PIB (People In Business) recently held a charity Speed Networking event at the Bromley Court Hotel to help raise funds for the MumMum Foundation and The Chartwell Cancer Trust. Just under £400 was raised as the ticket money was kindly fund matched by Southeast Legacies.
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Eastbourne. At the end of the season he asked if he Life is so different when the sun is shining. Of could take me out to dinner course, as I write this I have no idea what the in a unique and romantic weather is currently doing, as the column is written Italian restaurant. I, of course, a few weeks in advance, and weather conditions was delighted. After a very are, nowadays, very different from the hot British lovely candle-lit meal, being the perfect gentleman, he said summers I experienced as a child in the 60s. he would walk me to my flat. Again, he very considerately walked on the Being an eternal optimist, I am hoping the sun is shining as outside. Here again, that Dracula music flows through you read this, as we are planning an early summer holiday. my head, because on our romantic walk homewards, We love the British seaside. Our Kent coasts are so another giant seagull flew toward us, hovered above convenient if you live in Bromley, Orpington, or Hubby, then before we could say ‘Shoo,’ it had its surrounds. Nothing better than long, lazy, opened its bowels and left the contents on sunny days on the beach, and so easy to get I now fully to. One drawback though, (at this point, understand why the poor Hubby’s bald head. Slithering seagull Dracula music streams through my head), English are so famous droppings immediately started to slide down the side of his head as I speedily fumbled in as I recall one holiday when a giant seagull for being seen by the my handbag for a tissue to come to his aid. swooped down and dived speedily into sea in swimming In that few seconds all the evening’s romance the paper-wrapped bag of chips that I was attire and a vanished. I had to fight to keep a straight face. happily eating by the side of the sea. Then handkerchief over Hubby’s head was bright red with a mixture it sped off, beak full of chips, only to come their head of embarrassment and the rubbing needed to back a minute later to repeat the crime, and as remove the damage. I now fully understand why quickly as I lifted my hand to swipe it away, the the English are so famous for being seen by the sea in feathered thief had nicked another few chips and was swimming attire and a handkerchief over their head, nothing off, again, then again, until only my greasy paper was left. to do with sunburn on their heads, all about seagulls, bags My Hubby now always packs an umbrella, no matter of chips, and the saving of romance. what the weather forecast. Understandable, me thinks, For more about me and my crime novels see remembering our very first date, now thirty- two years ago. We met playing husband and wife in a play in www.lindareganonline.co.uk
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