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end of the book) because I kept repeating his name quite loudly. Sadly, because of my
accent, Cortana kept thinking I was asking for Orlando T, Orlando Key, or even Orlando
Quay, so I subsequently changed the example to refer to Brian Johnson instead. At one
point I overheard a conversation Diana was having with our decorator, Jason (who was
painting our hallway at the time), about whether he would be able to convert one of
the bedrooms into a padded cell, such was her concern with my state of mind! Still, that
is now all water under the bridge, or “water under the breach” if you are Cortana trying
to recognize my hybrid Gloucestershire/Kentish mode of speech.
And finally, finally, my daughter Francesca would be frightfully upset if I didn’t mention
her. Although she still lives at home, she is all grown up and now works for a software
development company in Cam, Gloucestershire (they didn’t offer me any freebies,
so I am not going to mention their name).
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