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May 19, 2023Liked by The Sophist

Joy as always. Now I need to move to a communal manor house; an unexpected turn in my life but I'm sure my family will understand.

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Oh they will, Tess. We must all follow our one true north. Even if Rotherham.

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have frantically searched for images of that rick rubin shower TO NO AVAIL T_T !!!

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Oh m8 ME TOO. Where is it, it must be somewhere. Who’s got the shots?

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Thrilled to have you back in my inbox/app because I’m terribly modern and whatnot ❤️

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Thrilled to have you here Ellie. You're not related to the late, great interior decorator Robert Kime by any chance? Thanks to him I will never know true happiness until my walls are almost falling down with the weight of artworks hanging from metal bars: https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/robert-kime-london-flat

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Not to our knowledge -- we’re a weird little 7-person Kime enclave from Yorkshire -- but believe me when I say it’s the primary motivation I have for getting a 23andme style test, because I’d bloody love to be

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Pls report back at your earliest opportunity. Surely it's not too late to contest that will.

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thanks for doing all this hard work for us. Now off to find a Manor House in Lancashire to move into.... but what is in the corner of the kitchen- that is curtained off with a jaunty tassell? (next to the SMEG)

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Oh dear. This wasn't supposed to happen but unfortunately you, Shona, have discovered the communal waste pipe that everyone pees into from their respective floors of the building on a Friday night.

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not sure if that makes this bargain more appealing or not.....

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Purple Bricks just sold for £1 plus the debt. Local agent ‘rationalising’ branches. Our house in a national newspaper described ‘Hot Spot’ reduced 13pc to sell. “The market fell off a cliff at Christmas”, quote from recently redundant local Chartered Surveyor. Oh the times they are a-changin’.

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Believe me I wanted to buy Purple Bricks for £1 myself, if only to sort out their appalling website and viewings system. What a hilarious company! I tried to buy not one but three flats through them. How they got this far is an actual mystery.

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I mean, three on different occasions during the same year. Was only going to end up with one of them. Did not end up with any of them.

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