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In work today and it's the pits because it's a national holiday and everyone else has the day off! This is actually a total lie - the hospitals, police, firemen etc are still all working as are all the people who look after other people - but I'm here in the museum alone for the next five hours with no one to make me a cup of coffee or the mind the till while I go for a wee and I'm feeling grumbly!
I had a text from Mike last night and he has discovered an interesting drink that you set fire to and blow it out just before you drink it. He's having fun in Austria but says he's missing us and wants to be back in his own room - all alone. I think he's finding sharing a room with Duncan, who is hyperactive at the best of times, a bit of a strain.
I worry sometimes that I've got the boy into bad habits. Drinking for one thing. I don't know about you but I'd much sooner he got pie-eyed under my supervision than he went out and got alcoholic poisoning all alone. Consequently, all the time we were away he shared fairly equally with the wine and also indulged in some devilish fruit based liquors for which he developed a taste. This led to some interesting - not to say bizarre - conversations...
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Right Here's almost the last bit of the challenge fic:
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