The Resident Geek, the Small Persons and I were over in Great Malvern yesterday for the wedding of an ex-colleague of the RG's. As often happens with these affairs, not all guests were invited to all parts of the do - there were a number of "second-tier" guests, including us, who were invited not to the ceremony itself (which was limited in numbers
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The couple who run it were absolute card-carrying English eccentrics - gentle, grey-haired, Guardian-reading (it was on a seat!), with at least in his case a definite element of the mysterious and magical. I could easily imagine him being a wizard on the quiet - and he certainly knew how to cast a spell over little ones!
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:-)
(Fortunately, the ex-boss was more than happy with the Gandalf comparison, since he said it made a change from small children assuming he is Father Christmas...)
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The couple who run it were absolute card-carrying English eccentrics...
Magnificent! Makes you proud to be British, don'tcha know! ~_^
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Though to be fair, much of Central Europe - Czechoslovakia say - has probably a stronger tradition of story-telling through puppetry. But yes, only the English could put it in a retired loo.
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- Erulisse (one L)
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(And of course, they adored it. I knew they would.)
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The man's a magician. I hope he gets at least as much delight and satisfaction out of it as his small audiences (in all senses!) do - I suspect he does...
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