Miss Lavinia Letitia Lamont, ‘Topsy’ to her friends. I roll the name around my tongue, savouring the clipped consonants and flowing vowels. Never has a daughter so graceful, been born to a father so dull. The Major as he was known to every Tom, Dick and Harry in the shires, liked to brag of his [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Earl Grey’
Love Me, Love, My God!
Posted in Comedy, Fiction, Funny, Humor, Humour, Satire, Short Story, Writing, tagged Amontillado, Armagnac, Earl Grey on December 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Race – Part II
Posted in Comedy, Fiction, Funny, Humor, Satire, Short Story, Writing, tagged Doberman, Earl Grey, Laphroaig, Lapsang Souchong on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“You’re looming again Peregrine, I will not tolerate being loomed over…”
Great Aunt Augustine, as grimly determined to hang on to her vast fortune and crumbling estate as she is reluctant to see her only living heir prosper. One hundred and seven years old, patrician, perfectionst and practically blind, she is equipped with a monocle screwed [...]
Duck!
Posted in Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Humour, Satire, Writing, tagged Armagnac, duck, Earl Grey, Glenmorangie, shooting, Times on August 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The teacup rattled in its saucer. Earl Grey slopping over the rim as Colonel Meridew Musters roared delightedly, his mirth echoing through the house. The kitchen staff, plucking fowl in preparation for dinner, smile to themselves, all’s well with the world.
“Bloody man’s dropped dead!”
A perusal of the obituary column was a traditional mainstay of a [...]
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