YOU'LL
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SNIPPET OF OFT' BUFFED 'N' RE-BUFFED HIGH BESPANGLING
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ON EACH PAGE OF : ~~~~~~~
ALICE'SVIRTUALAUTOGRAPHBOOK ~~~~~~~
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TOOL, allowing you to advance, retreat or return here.
"Fruit
Tree", the song accompanying these pages is apt
throughout, and as markedly pertinent as it is poignant, at
certain points. It was written and performed by the singular
talent of Mr. ~
NICK DRAKE
~
(19 June 1948 - 25 November 1974)
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<----......... This is my "late,
great"....... ---->
<----........... Great, Great Aunt :......... ----> Alice
Maud Millington ne้ Hackwood.
as well as bein' a
birrova top rankin' dude, she's also more than a
tad scarey.
You don't mess with Alice ; and you
"Don't"
"Don't" (impersonate Elvis
or) crack that "funny" about Chris
Milne.
She's
got 'er 'ead screwed on, all right, and
she'll 'ave beat'n ya to it (and/or
per(-given-half-a)chance ya gudsulph
abou' dah bonce wiv 'er jolly clevah,
awl-wevvah brolly).
Actually,
it's rather obviously a walking stick -
the outdoor accompaniment to a sleeping
log...
...and
EYE'll 'ave you know ('n' yazzout) that
it's to
retinally remind you of
THE (its rude
to(o))
POINT
Deemed doomed for decades,
dusty-drawered
The signatories were ignored
...but not by Alice, or the
thousands of other volunteers who assisted with
the care of wounded militia, brought back to
Britain from the Front, during the 1914-1918 War.
This is a webularisation of
the autographs and artwork she accumulated from
young men recovering in West Midlands hospitals -
including the 1st Southern General Hospital,
Edgbaston, Birmingham.
A keen genealogist, having traced her family
roots, through the Midlands, back into Wales and Derbyshire, Alice was
particularly proud of the achievements of her most outstanding relative -
her father's cousin - the terrifically prolific Staffordshire
writer, historian and social reformer :
to
retinally remind you of