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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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And a very good policy
but of course now I’m intrigued as to the cause of this post!
good policy and praying you are ok over whatever caused the post
I’ve appreciated your recent flurry of posts and can’t imagine why anyone would want to cast nasturtiums! (is that an A A Milne quote? Can’t quickly place it).
I think it was Bertie Wooster… although I can imagine Owl saying it just as easily!
I had the wrong author: I must have read or heard Wooster without realising it.
“I do know,” said Pooh, because Christopher Robin gave me masturshalum seed and I planted it…”
“I thought they were called nasturtiums,” said Piglet timidly…
“No,” said Pooh. “Not these. These were called masturshalums.”
(Milne, A A – ‘Tiggers Don’t Climb Trees’ in ‘The House at Pooh Corner’, Methuen, 1928, page 58)
Which just goes to show, we don’t always know what we think we do…
Does that take us back to the start of the conversation, or does it leave us in a Happier Place instead?