Well my mistress\u2019s travels were not the overwhelming success she had hoped for. It is a little disconcerting to ask, \u201cCan I use this ticket on this train?\u201d before you get on, and then after the answer is \u201cYes\u201d be asked for excess fare on the train because the answer should have been \u201cNo\u201d. As if that was not bad enough, the machine then declined her credit card. Poor dear, didn\u2019t know where to put herself. Then the bloke misheard her and thought she said she hadn\u2019t got enough money. By this time she felt as though the whole carriage were watching. I reassured her by saying \u201cI\u2019m sure they weren\u2019t watching, just listening.\u201d She didn\u2019t seem to think that helped. She did wonder about the whole process of being made to book a seat on a specific train and then being allowed to travel on a different train, leaving an empty seat marked reserved later in the day. I\u2019m sure there must be a way of electronically cancelling the later seat allocation, but the train company doesn\u2019t seem to have caught up with that yet. She was also slightly less thrilled at having got her hotel room half price, when she realised she had the attic room, with a window she could barely climb out of, overlooking the windowless backs of buildings. I did reminder her that she was the one who had told me \u201cYou don\u2019t get something for nothing\u201d, she didn\u2019t think that was helpful either!<\/p>\n
Fame at last. Only in my own lunchtime but at least it is a start. I am going to appear on a calendar, for sale as part of an enterprise scheme run for schools. One of my cousins is doing it and he asked if he could use a picture of me. I said as long as he got one that captured me from my best side, how could I possibly refuse. I am now trying to negotiate whether I am to get a one off fee or a share of the profits. I prefer the share idea, it might amount to more. It\u2019s like legitimate gambolling.<\/p>\n
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