Summary
I HAVE toured with my talk Four Scandals and A Gooseberry formore than five years, curing some listeners of insomnia and reminding others that an hour is too precious to waste again.
The talk got two airings this week, at Weardale Probus inWolsingham and Darlington Men's Forum. At each venue, at least one person was still awake when I finished and, by even greater coincidence, both asked a question which had never been raised in the five previous years.See the full content of this document
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Scandalised by Stoney
"Is that where 'stony broke' comes from?"
The scandal under question concerns Mary Eleanor Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore.In March 1776, aged 27, t...See the full content of this document
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