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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Slyvia (note the slip there) you're a genius.  I've even got the damn' book, I didn't connect - could I be getting old?  No need to answer that - I'd much rather you didn't.... On the Beach is a great book, too - a wonderful book.   I also enjoyed, when I got into it - which took a while - Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Orwell was a very angry man, with a huge backlog of resentment - but I worked in shops 50 plus years ago; I recognize the hatred he expressed; and I really understand what he meant by "the money stink" (you need to read the book to understand that).   He was a clunky writer, was George - so angry, prose so clotted by resentment, or anger on behalf of others well beyond his class - not an easy read today but, it really is worth persisting with him. Indeed, 70 years after reading it for the first time, I want to carve it out of my bookshelves and read it again.   EDIT: SIXTY years after reading it for the first time!  Someone stop me embracing old age before I really have to!

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I’ve just found it on talking books so will enjoy it again…..when I stop swearing at Alexa…Happy I am a geniu with a funny name.🦋

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Can anyone define what a Chiffarobe is?
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Can anyone define what a Chiffarobe is?
Skylar Brown on 05/08/2024 19:35:42
Your clue points to the southern states of the USA, so I'd hazard a guess at "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.

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I've had another go...doubt that this one will last very long.
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The Adams Family??=?
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Andrew Roles

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Lewis, I think it might be ‘Good Omens’  by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I’ve only ever watched the brilliant TV adaptation. 

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Donald Trump  Robin Hood and Satan….sorry….just love the painting.
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Lewis Cooper

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Yes, Good Omens...didn't think this would last long.   A great book, funny, a fantasy, but full of real life.  The demon character, whilst reporting to his superiors about his evil doings, tells them it's hard to think of something terrible to do to the people, that they haven't already thought of, and done to themselves.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Can anyone define what a Chiffarobe is?
Skylar Brown on 05/08/2024 19:35:42
It's a form of wardrobe, spelled Chifferobe.  I could do with one: I've been buying clothes to suit my slightly less athletic body ... but have kept old suits in the fond delusion that one day, I'll be able to get back into them.  
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Chifferobe....to be more specific than Robert, it's a wardrobe that has hanging space on one side only, the other side being taken up by drawers.  Not to be confused with an armoire, which has a wardrobe on one side and shelves on the other.  For reasons I can only guess at, both seem to have been neglected by artists across the globe, and do not feature in great works of art. There seems, however, to be several examples of armoires in the Louvre collection.  My good friend Google Translate tells me that 'armoire' (French) translates as cupboard so some may be Chifferobes or even 'penderies'. rather than mere 'placards'....but I am not going there.

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Sylvia - Your "Good Omens" made me laugh out loud!
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