Taxi ordure
Waking up at sparrowfart was OK. Maybe we could sleep on the flight. To bed at 9pm and alarm at 3.30am. The minicab would arrive at 4am. The taxi booking was done online. Very efficient. Technology is great. Or should be!
4am... no taxi. But I spoke to the driver when he called me last night. Everything seemed tickety-boo. All should be working like digital clockwork.
Eventually he arrived, more like 4.15. It seems that satellite technology sent him miles north to a different town. (Should’ve ordered a taxi with a toilet because by then I was crapping myself!)
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Neville Hunt over 4 years ago
Thanks Drew. It’s fabulous here, in a non-chic way.... the way we both love it.
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Christopher over 4 years ago
Thanks for the peek into your daughter's big day. But help out a Yank. What's a sparrowfart? I heard someone say that on a British sitcom and I didn't understand it then either. I'm assuming it has something to do with getting up very early but it's a strange name for it.
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Christopher over 4 years ago
Oh, and I see now this is different from the drabbles about your daughter's wedding. I was thinking this was a continuation of that.
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Neville Hunt over 4 years ago
Re sparrowfart, you’re right about it. It’s a (funny) euphemism for the crack of dawn (and btw there’s lots of innuendo potential in crack of Dawn 😁). A common little bird in England is the sparrow (although these days its numbers seem to be dwindling) and I guess the notion is that the bird wakes up as day breaks, stretches its wings, farts and then sings its ‘dawn chorus’. We actually got up well before dawn, at 03.30 (😱). The sparrow might have been farting in their sleep though! 😀
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Neville Hunt over 4 years ago
Yes, this is another series I need to write as it happens. My daughter’s wedding series has a way to go though and I have copious notes for drabbles I’ve brought to France with me.
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Neville Hunt over 4 years ago
Thanks Drew. I’m on a roll, I think, but after these I must finish Fedeltà! I love Tom Waits btw... his version of Waltzin’ Matilda is terrific along with so many others. His romantic touch ‘I hope that I don’t fall in love with you’ I played over and over too. And he’s been married for yonks to the woman who saved his life by getting him onto the wagon... unexpected that... and they keep well out of the limelight by choice. Great film roles too...
