The Old Queen Asserts Herself
Like the Queen Mary on her final voyage to California, Winnie has continued to steam about in the background of cottage life at a slow sedately pace. Most afternoons she is able to walk the hundred yards or so to Trendy Carol's garden , where she ignores the warm shade of the privet, favouring more the comfy sofa in her all glass conservatory. But that is as much as she does now, and remains tired enough not to leave the cottage on longer walks or even for lengthy trips in the car. But sometimes the old girl gets a certain glint in her eye And this is where a sense of devilment seems to overtakes her It's a quiet humour that's often perfectly timed Almost as if Miriam Margolyes has taken over her body in a comedy vignette Today, quite unexpectedly she decided to come to bed with me after shift. Now she has not done this for months and months, preferring to sit in the reading chair in the kitchen or on the couch in the living room but after several deep breaths she plodded u...