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The Magic of a “Muriel Summer”

  • Posted on: 21/06/2019

In My Glasgow Full Fronted Villa “Good morning Mrs Wylie, here is the post and your coffee-chino.” “Thank you, however, I think you mean cappuccino Mrs Travers, my faithful woman what does but not a lot.” “Exactly Mrs Wylie, I …

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Jasper “In Search of London”

  • Posted on: 14/06/2019

This week finds The Wylies in London. It’s June 1959…. “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Dr Johnson (who was not a Shakespearean writer, …

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Muriel’s Musings: Small Annoyances and New Delights

  • Posted on: 06/06/2019

This week we are joined by Muriel Wylie, an honour indeed. It is June 1959 and the Wylies are in Glasgow…. Stately as a Galleon As you know dear readers I am not a woman who is easily irritated. I …

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Fruit Cocktail and Space Monkeys

  • Posted on: 31/05/2019

This week’s offering from the Simply Marvellous Wylies comes for Jasper. It is May 1959….  At Home  Ah peace, perfect peace. I am in the drawing room of our Glasgow home, reclining on a newly acquired chaise longue with a …

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