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Ms Maggie is Anne O’Grady!
Our ref: 1007356015 Date: 21.08.2010 Dear Ms Lamptey Thank you for contacting us about the driver of your Bakerloo line train recently. We understand the importance of good communications, and our Train Operators (drivers) are carefully trained in the use of the public address system. It is always a pleasure to…
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Ms Maggie
Ms Maggie has driven her Bakerloo line trains through and underneath London for many proud, happy years. TFL (The Fancy Lot in their offices with their spreadsheets and their problems) wrote to her twice annually for some time, urging her to navigate the Jubilee instead: newer trains, a smoother ride.…
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Mrs Locket
Mrs Locket walks along the street in Windsor, looking for something to wear. Nothing has caught her eye, and the trip away from London hasn’t brought her the solace she thought it would. Passing a teashop she decides on coffee and cake, concluding that an interlude buffered by paisley and…
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The Machinery
Those up at 5am are the mechanics of the city. They suffer and endure the others’ mistakes, and silently, relentlessly, they are those who must clear the debris from the night before. It’s thankless but vital that they do. Mister Workard is up at 5am. A bitter black coffee is…
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Mister Grotesque
He’s grotesque. The way he throws his head back and laughs I half expect his exposed throat to split open and a little edition of himself to pop out cuckoo clock format, which will laugh and split and so forth. His laugh puts the HA in haughty and he HA…
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Eli
You are so incredibly precious and so far away. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve made you up. You wanted to be held but they wouldn’t let me for as long as I wanted to. Wanting nothing more than to hold you always, I needed you to hold me back and…
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A Crazy lot of Heart
Crazy Heart makes you feel like you’re in the heart of America, immersed in the country on a Summer evening, kicking back alone or with friends, with a drink in hand and great music on at just at the right level. Let’s go deeper. Boots off, you’re sitting on a…
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I can’t Be Kind and won’t Rewind
We’ve seen films about failing independent shops before. So this would have to be extra special if it was going to get away with it. Unfortunately for Be Kind Rewind, it isn’t special and it doesn’t get away with it. The nostalgia evoked from the footage of real life jazz…
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Our Trouble in Paradise
A blackbird whispered to me Through his beak I heard him speak You can fly, and I shall teach Use my wings, just spread and reach Flap three times and take a jump And then you’ll be away With the fairies you shall be And you shall see a finer…
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Free tickets: not enough, I want my free stuff!
Last Sunday, my friend and I, free tickets in hand, headed for The Vitality Show in Earl’s Court, London. Naturally, I was enthused by the prospect of little orange bottles of all-in-one conditioning shampoo, samples of moisturising lavender-scented massage lotion, and a key-ring perhaps, in the shape of an apple…
Sarah Lamptey 