19th June
Confident that the Big Controller will give us a Deal, The Director goes off to film butterflies. We have no phone line yet and there's not much of a mobile signal around the house so I walk to the phone box to call France Telecom. I keep having to wait out the maximum time on hold before I'm cut off and have to start again.
There is a catchy little tune on that France Telecom hold system - it has formed a tinnitus-like loop in my head.
Turns of Phrase
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Erasmus’ 1512 rhetoric textbook Copia lists 195 variations on the sentence
“Your letter delighted me greatly”: Your brief note refreshed my spirits in
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