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Welcome to the village directory Hi everyone, It’s July and it’s is a big month for The Village Directory as we are joining the smartphone revolution. We now have our own smartphone app, making our directory of local businesses and events available wherever you go, if you have a smartphone that is! It brings together all of the advertisers and events from all six magazine areas, but if you only want to search your own area you can. If you would like to know more why not check out the full story on page 22. As always it’s really important to me that the magazine should be used by rural communities to let everyone know of their fund-raising events, get togethers, local meetings, clubs, school fairs/ shows etc. If you wish to publicise an event, or run an editorial to create awareness of a local item please get in touch. It is completely free to advertise community items, you can phone me or post/email information to me and I absolutely promise I don’t bite! So please, please do let me know what’s happening out there so that I can let everyone else know in your area. Also this month watch out for the Olympic Torch relay making its way from Rye to Ashford. It will be passing through Hamstreet on the 18th, as you’ll see in our What’s On pages this month. It may be the closest many of us get to the Olympics, other than via our television screens. Lets hope the sun shines on the event and the rain holds off.
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Take a Hydrangea Walk at Beech Court Gardens On August 2 at 2.30pm visitors to Beech Court Gardens in Challock (near Ashford) in Kent can enjoy a guided hydrangea walk and take the opportunity to explore the picturesque gardens.
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The walk is free with garden admission and visitors can hear about the garden’s history and wildlife while admiring the impressive red and blue hydrangeas and impressive trees, which provide welcome shade in the hot sun. There is always a warm welcome from the owners of these beautiful gardens where visitors can also meet the interesting assortment of goats and rare breed chickens. Surrounding a 15th century farmhouse this informal garden is truly a garden for all seasons. At all times the garden is framed by many varieties of rare trees including Acers, firs, pines, Kalopanax and the tallest Eucryphia in Kent. The autumn tints are classical and trees provide an ideal habitat for birdlife including nesting sites for a pair of Barn and Tawny owls, Kestrels and migrating varieties which the gardens are renowned for. The site where the gardens are now found dates back to Saxon times, suggested by the discovery of Roman swords and artefacts. The house itself, which is not open to the public, dates back to 1415 but visitors can see the unusual shaped windows
known as Dering windows from the gardens. The story behind the name connects to Mr Dering being chased by the Roundheads, and being a slim build he was able to escape through a window of this shape, the Roundheads were unable to follow him. He lived to tell the tale, so after his marriage to the beautiful maiden he was visiting he changed all the windows at his estate in Pluckley to this interesting shape. The garden is open Saturday to Thursday between 10.30am and 5.30pm until October 31. Adult admission is £5, senior citizens £4.50, students/wheelchair users £2 and children £1. Groups of 15 and over £4. Adult season ticket £12. Lunch and tasty home cooked meals are served in the cosy Oast house tea rooms. The gardens have a Disabled Silver Access Award and are fully accessible for wheelchair users except on very wet days. For further information and opening times at other times of the year visit www. beechcourtgardens.co.uk or call 01233 740735. For media enquiries contact Caroline Edmunds at Pennington PR on caroline@penningtonpr. com or 01892 616647
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Hello Everyone, Mowgli here. How are all of you? Ebony and I have spent a lot of time this last month looking at all the rain and wind out of the window. We hope it gets sunny soon! All the wind meant that yet more roof tiles fell off our cottage roof. If any more fall off we may need to start using umbrellas inside....... Jane’s Dad (who was a chartered surveyor before retiring and becoming a receptionist at the clinic) shudders every time he sees the roof! Still, we are all dry at the moment! Last year during quite a bad storm there was the most terrifying noise one night and it turned out (we sent Clive to look of course. He has to have some uses....) that a chimney pot had come crashing down. Just today ironically a roofer has come to mend the chimney pot which is great. Less great is that the scaffolding to get to the chimney is being put up in Jane’s new vegetable patch. I have been keeping watch out of the window and issuing regular updates. So far all the beetroot are underneath a plank and the beans have
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scaffold poles on top of them. Oh well, they are only vegetables- nothing important like cat biscuits or the lovely pouches I occasionally get as a treat! We have heard lovely tales of wildlife that has been at the clinic lately. Our favourite was a group of 5 baby barn owls. Sadly the Mum had been found dead and the Dad wasn’t feeding them. They were brought to the clinic and looked after until they could go to an RSPCA specialist centre where they will eventually be able to get released. We campaigned for Clive to bring them home at night to feed- I think I could definitely teach 5 baby owls a few tricks....- but again I was blamed as the very reason that they couldn’t come home and Chris took them home with him and did a marvellous job. Chris’s cats are so lucky- getting to meet the owls. I would have loved to teach them how to catch catnip mice! I think it is quite unjust how I am always blamed for disasters and breakages. The humans just don’t understand. Do any of you cats out there have habits your owners just don’t understand? I mainly get into trouble for misbehaving in front of guests. I think my most unpopular
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phase was quite a while ago when I used to help with the washing. I don’t know about other cats out there but our humans are always faffing about with clothes- in the washing machine then on the clothes horse, then seeing if they are dry and then ironing them. I went through a phase of checking when clothes were dry and dragging them downstairs to let the humans know. It isn’t my fault that I could only drag the small clothes and that I only seemed to do this when we had guests. It was when the humans were most distracted and didn’t notice what was dry on the clothes horse or not. It seemed to cause a bit of a rumpus each time I proudly came down the stairs dragging pants or knickers or a bra, miaowing through my mouthful of fabric to let everyone know the offending item was dry. Some humans just don’t appreciate the help! I stopped this after a few months as it seemed so universally unpopular and started to pretend to fall off the dresser and yell instead so that Clive had to leap up to catch me in mid air. This is a good trick I perform to this day. I’d love to hear about all the habits your owners don’t like!
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The Handy Household - Aluminium m Foil Aluminium foil is commonly referred to as tin foil because the original product manufactured back in the early twentieth century was actually made of tin, but all the ‘tin foil’ you buy these days is now aluminium. A staple of the kitchen for over 100 years then, but it has many other uses around the home. Soften brown sugar by wrapping it in foil and putting it in a medium oven for around 5 minutes. Your dog or cat will dislike the feeling and sound of foil, so lay a sheet over your chairs and sofas and within a few days they’ll learn not to jump up. Likewise cover table and chair legs and this will put them off using the legs as a scratching post. Increase the effectiveness of your ironing board by laying a sheet under the cover. The foil will reflect the heat back meaning you can iron on a lower setting. The same principle applies if you put foil behind your room radiators. If you have a tray of ice cubes in the freezer, cover it with foil and this will ensure the ice stays clean and doesn’t pick up odours from other food. If you are having your carpet cleaned you may not be able to move the larger furniture out of the room. Squares of foil under the legs will protect the furniture and won’t stain the damp carpet. Extend the life of your scissors by cutting through several layers of foil to sharpen them.
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Lofty Ideals Converting your loft can be the ideal way to gain extra space without the expense and hassle of moving house. Katherine Sorrell outlines the dos and don’ts.
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Dark, pokey and inaccessible, lofts can often be, literally, a waste of space, useful for a bit of dusty, long-term storage and nothing else. Turn that space into one or two useful rooms and – ta da! – not only might you have added real value to your property, but you’ve got extra living space that could make all the difference to happy family life. The simplest loft conversion might just involve strengthening and boarding out the oor, adding a light and sticking in a pull-down loft ladder – giving you a good-sized storage area that’s accessible on a regular basis, at a cost of probably only a couple of thousand pounds. Bear in mind, however, that Building Regulations may apply to even a simple conversion – see more at www.
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planningportal.gov.uk. Such a basic project may be a good idea in practical, everyday terms, but if it’s added value you’re after, you’ll have to be more ambitious, say the experts, and put in at least one ‘real’ room. ‘It’s a false economy to cut corners,’ says Jeremy Leaf, RICS housing spokesperson (www.rics.org). ‘To maximise your return the conversion has to be designed properly from the very beginning. You should have a proper lobby area when you come up the stairs, there should be sufficient head clearance, it should be properly insulated, you should have a dormer window rather than a Velux. It’s also important to think about how a loft conversion affects the house as a whole, as they can make them top heavy, with too many bedrooms and, in
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comparison, too few reception rooms. Check out other properties nearby which have been similarly extended to see what has been done and what they’re worth.’ When doing your research, it’s always a good idea to ask a local estate agent for advice, and you could also go to a website such as www.nethouseprices.com to find out how much properties in your area have sold for recently. A word about space planning. If you have room, adding a bathroom to a loft conversion makes sense both practically and financially, and shouldn’t cost any more than adding a new bathroom anywhere else in the house – in other words, anything from around £3,000 for a plain fit-out. Costs will be minimised if you place the bathroom above one on the floor below, keeping plumbing work simple, but Hugo Tugman of Architect Your Home (www. architect-yourhome.com) points out that you should always keep your options open. ‘It’s folly to put the bathroom in the wrong place, just because that’s where the drains are,’ he says. ‘The same goes for staircases – most people think that there’s just one place where a staircase can be fitted in a loft conversion, because Building Regulations require two metres of head room above it, but you can end up squashing your accommodation just because the best bit of loft is taken up with a staircase. It’s really worth considering the possible alternatives when doing your planning.’ And finally, if overall head height is an issue in your potential loft conversion, don’t try to get away with cramped, uncomfortable rooms. Hugo points out that lowering the ceilings of the rooms below is often a possibility, and can make all the difference to the success of
The HSBC’s annual home improvement survey found, in March this year, that a loft conversion is still the improvement that adds the most value, boosting the price of a property by, on average, £16,152. But according to specialists Econoloft, a typical conversion by building professionals costs between £20,000 and £30,000. The answer may lie, therefore, in keeping costs down by doing as much work as possible yourself – but only if you can do it to a good standard. Valuation expert Paul Cutbill, of Countrywide Surveying Services, said: ‘Whilst sensibly improved and well presented homes will generally be attractive to potential purchasers, rising labour and material costs mean that the gap between the cost of improving and monies realised at the point of any sale has been reduced. Poor quality refitting and lack of proper design considerations, often as a result of inadequate project budgeting and planning, can also have a significant knock-on effect to any added value which might be gained when selling a property.’
a project. ‘It sounds like it would be a massive expense,’ he says, ‘but in fact the additional costs are really only plastering and decorating the rooms below, and it would probably add no more than about three or four thousand onto a simple job.’
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Events July 8th July The Ashford Branch of Kent Beekeepers Association meet at 2.30p.m. on 8th July, at their Apiary site, Cheesemans Green Lane, Mersham, TN25 7HX to hear a talk and demonstration by Mike Cooper on Queen Rearing. Anyone interested in learning the craft of keeping bees please contact Peggy Wood o1233 503074
Smeeth W.I. will meet next on Monday 9th July at Brabourne and Smeeth Village Hall when they will be joined by other W.I. members in their Group to enjoy a great evening with Headcorn Morris dancers. Visitors are always most welcome. For further information do contact Joy Taylor on 01303 812165 or Kathleen MacPhee on 01303 812536.
Saturday 14 July Kent Foster Care Association FUN Day at Capel-le-Ferne Village Hall (Lancaster Avenue, Capel-leFerne, Folkestone, CT18 7LX) on 2012 from 12 noon until 4pm. There will be lots of to do for all age groups. Sunday August 26th Westwell Village Fete Westwell Queen Elizabeth Field 1pm - 5pm
whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on July 18 Olympic Torch Relay Hamstreet. The Olympic torch will pass trough the village en route from Rye to Ashford. The relay will pass through at 10.30am but there will be a convoy passing through ahead of this at 9.30am which is when spectators are advised to take their places. After the relay a whole host of events will take place including the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest ever Zumba class on Pound Leas at noon, the Hamstreet school children attempting to break a world record for a formation of the Olympic rings for an aerial photo at 1pm, netball at 2.30pm/3pm, football at 4pm and a 5k race at 6pm. To enter the race go to www.podplus.co.uk Members Wanted for Kennington Badminton Club who play at The Norton Knatchbull School on a Wednesday evening from 7.30 p.m. - 10.00pm. Previous experience of the game would be preferred. Pilates Classes- Challock Village Hall, Wednesdays 9:15am. Suitable for all levels. Contact Victoria 07543543373
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Seasonal Delights
Cherries Preheat the oven to 220°C/ gas mark 7. Place the cherries in a pan with the brown sugar and red wine. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes until soft. Spoon the cherries in to 4 large ramekins. Roughly crumble the amaretti biscuits onto the top, dividing them equally.
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In a large bowl, whisk the egg whites to a stiff peak. Start adding the sugar gradually, whisking all the time until the meringue is glossy. Spoon onto the top of the cherries.
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Fruit Blackberries Cherries Currants Gooseberries Loganberries Raspberries Strawberries
Vegetables Artichoke Aubergine Beetroot Beans Broccoli (celebrase) Carrots Courgettes
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Carrots Garlic Kohirabi Mangetout Onions Peas Potatoes Spinach
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The Village Directory Goes Mobile!
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Since 2005 The Village Directory has served the rural communities of Ashford, Tenterden and the Marsh with its monthly publication and delivery via Royal Mail. Now, for the very first time, we are joining the mobile revolution and heading into the technological world of the Smartphone.
If you are a small business with a limited budget you might like to advertise on our app rather than in the magazine please contact me for details on 01233 720488 or email me at info@thevillagedirectory. co.uk.
This month our brand new mobile app, for iPhone and Android smartphones, will go live and be available to any of you with a smartphone to download completely FREE!
The app can be downloaded from your smartphone app store, simply search for “village directory”.
The app will bring together all six of our magazine areas, providing local information, events, special offers and of course a complete directory of all of our local advertisers. You will be able to search your local area and, if you can’t find what you need, look further afield into the areas covered by the other magazines. If you need directions, or a fast way to contact one of our advertisers The Village Directory will always be on hand to help.
It will be a while before we can judge the popularity of this new service, and there are bound to be teething problems,but hopefully it will prove to enhance the service given by The Village Directory and enable us to put one foot firmly into the 21st Century.
We also plan to publish events, so if you miss the magazine deadline and wish to publicise your local event we can at least make it available to all our smartphone users. We also hope to publish special offers and discounts being offered by our advertisers, so please watch this space.
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A Proverbial Life... A picture paints a thousand words
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In our early days of married life each family photograph was lovingly taken with camera and film, delivered to the chemist for development and the finished prints picked up a week later. Sometimes, I’d use a special envelope for sending films off for processing to some far flung film developers before, hopefully, having them delivered back through the door. I can still remember the excitement of collecting developed pictures from the chemist; hoping the assistants hadn’t had a sneak peak at them, then hiding round the corner to scan the latest pictorial record of our life. There were always some photographs that hadn’t quite turned out as expected; blurrily out of focus, too bright or too dark, with maybe a fat thumb or skinny finger covering the lens and captured for all to see. I treasured these photographs. I used to spread them out on the living room floor and gaze at them for hours. Then once I’d had my fill of imprinting them on my memory and showing them off I’d proudly stick them into albums. As the years passed the collection of photographs and albums grew. As further years passed I became lax about sticking the photos in albums; instead tossing the packets of prints into an old apple box kept for that purpose. With the arrival of digital cameras we didn’t have to be so careful in our photo taking. Snap, snap, snap at each and every opportunity with no fears about the costs of film or processing. Transfer to the computer, delete those you don’t like, crop, adjust and save those you do. In the early days proudly printing them out on the home printer, then later, just burn them to disc and forget about the printing. Stacks and stacks of discs recording our life, sanitised, edited and suitable for viewing by all. Emailed to friends and family, posted on Facebook and shared with the world, backed up then slipped into
little plastic wallets... and largely forgotten. Far too many to commit to memory – far too many marking insignificant and truly mundane moments. Recently, while sorting through some papers I came across a photograph. It showed three small boys in swimming trunks and a middle aged man also in trunks. They were all standing in a river, knee deep in water and holding hands. It’s a glorious summer day and while you can’t fully see their faces it’s clear they’re laughing. If you look closely you can see fishing rods, towels, a picnic and two cans of beer on the riverbank. You can also see my toes captured while sitting on the grass and taking the photograph. I’d nearly forgotten that day 25 years ago; not quite but nearly. Three young boys and their granddad fishing and swimming, the family holiday, the nettles, the trek to the swimming spot and the digging for worms. I remember a lot more but it’s not for sharing. It’s for savouring in quiet, private moments when I need to count my blessings – something I do frequently. Apart from the wonderful memories the photograph invoked it also prompted another feeling. I’m now increasingly convinced of the need to revert to actually printing my digital photographs, or of having them printed for me. I don’t want them to be forgotten or consigned to shiny metal discs and stuffed into brittle plastic envelopes. I’d quite like my children and grandchildren to come across them and think, ‘I remember that.’
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Once your offer is accepted, you should advise the estate agents of your solicitor, and they will send your solicitor a memorandum of sale. The seller’s solicitor will then send your solicitor a draft contract of sale, title information and Property Information Forms and the investigation of title can then be carried out. Your solicitor will look at what is registered against the title at the Land Registry and various searches will reveal the property’s planning and buildings regulations history, etc. Enquiries will then be raised, based on your solicitor’s findings. These will need to be answered by the sellers and their solicitor. The seller does not have to tell you about problems with the property or neighbourhood, but should reply truthfully to all enquiries raised. Your solicitor will then report to you on the findings and, if you are happy to proceed, they will finalise the terms of the contract. You and the seller will then sign an identical contract and your solicitor will hold your signed contract until a completion date is agreed. This is when you need to provide the deposit, usually 10% of the purchase price, and this must be cleared funds in your solicitor’s account before they can exchange contracts. At exchange, the contracts become binding and the 10% deposit becomes non-refundable. If you require a mortgage, your solicitor will apply for the mortgage funds to arrive on or before the agreed completion date. Between exchange and completion you may need to sign the Land Registry transfer document. You will need to ensure that the balance of the funds is in place before completion, as you are contractually
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Back in 1996, a marketing executive and a technologist from Compaq came up with the concept. Their futuristic idea was that we wouldn’t buy software for our own computers, as we would buy access to the programs we need on demand over the Internet. Fast forward 16 years, and most of us are indeed using cloud technology. In fact, if you share files in Drop Box, use Norton Online Backup, listen to music on
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Working from home Office Politics
If there’s one thing I thought I’d never miss, it’s office politics. All that bitching and bellyaching and backbiting. I was a victim of it myself, which is why I’m now working from home. The truth is, I was never any good at it. I didn’t understand how it worked, nor why anybody should choose to indulge in it. As far as I was concerned, you did your work, you went home, you got paid; and everybody else did pretty much the same. I was always too honest, or (if truth be told) too slow in the wits to realise that life wasn’t like that.
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Take character assassination. I know how it’s done now. You have to pick the right moments – in casual conversation (preferably out of the office rather than in the middle of a meeting) to sow the seeds of doubt about a colleague’s performance. You have to dress it up right: damning with faint praise is far more effective than outright condemnation. You have to build up to it, to insinuate yourself with the right people, to create the image of the positive, helpful, sympathetic workmate rather than the envious, hate-filled sac of venom you actually are. I was always too polite, though. I believed that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Then there’s empire-building. Personally, being bone idle, I couldn’t believe that anybody would actually want more responsibility. Come five, my jacket was off the back of the chair and I was down the pub. If anybody was fool enough to want to take over some of my remit, more fool them. Then one day I woke up to find I didn’t have any remit left. So here I am, working from home. Well, perhaps I wasn’t as stupid as all that. I vaguely perceived that there were people who wanted to increase their influence at the expense of mine, and on the rare occasions when I managed to pull one over on them I was mightily pleased with myself. But I was no Iago. I wasn’t subtle enough, or persistent enough. I couldn’t be bothered to worm my way into the inner circle. By the time I walked out of the office door for the last time and entered the wonderful world of working from home I was heartily glad to be free
of office politics and never dreamt I’d miss it. But after all, it’s human contact of a sort, even if they’re humans you really want to drop breeze-blocks on from the top of a very tall building. It keeps you sharp. And besides, I think I’d be much better at it now. I could be good at being the boss’s blue-eyed boy if I put my mind to it. So I’m going to practise, although as a one-man band it might not be easy. I’m going to network surreptitiously with myself so I can blacken my reputation behind my back. I’m going to use my good standing with myself to gain ownership of my department’s operations. I’m going to claim the credit for all my successes while shifting the blame onto myself for all my shortcomings. I’m going to withhold vital information from myself and finally, albeit reluctantly, I’m going to have to let myself go. Then I’m going to have to replace myself with someone who’s more of a team player, someone who shares the company’s focus, someone who’s more directed towards common goals. Myself. by Ted Bruning
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wit & wisdom MY EX-WIFE THE PILOT My ex-wife started taking flying lessons about the time our divorce started and she got her license shortly before our divorce was final, later that same year. Yesterday afternoon I got a phone call, that she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was piloting. Seems she was forced to make an emergency landing in Hamilton because of bad weather. Thank God the kids weren’t with her. The FAA issued a preliminary report, citing pilot error: She was flying a single engine aircraft in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating). The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on board. No one on the ground was injured. The photograph below was taken at the scene to show the extent of damage to her aircraft. She was really lucky.
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A man calls home to his wife and says, Honey, I have been asked to fly to Canada with my boss and several of his friends for fishing. We’ll be gone for a long weekend. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I’ve been wanting, so could you please pack enough clothes for a 3-day weekend? .... And, also, would you get out my rod and tackle box from the attic? We’re leaving at 4:30 pm from the office and I will swing by the house to pick my things up. Oh! And please pack my new navy blue silk pyjamas.” The wife thinks this sounds a bit odd, but, being the good wife, she does exactly what her husband asks. Following the long weekend, he comes home a little tired, but, otherwise, looking good. The wife welcomes him home and asks if he caught many fish. He says, ‘Yes! Lots of Walleyes, some Bass, and a few Pike. He says, “But why didn’t you pack my new blue silk pyjamas like I asked you to do?” The wife replies, I did. They’re in your tackle box. Never, Never, Never try to If yo outsmart a woman! u rec e ive an Depar t not t ment of H email from o eat e tinned alth tellin the g pork swine becau you flu se of ignore it. It
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Regardless of one’s age, one should always plan ahead... The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80 and then about her new husband’s occupation.
She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she’d first married a banker when she was in her early 20’s, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40’s, later on a preacher when in her 60’s and now in her 80’s, a funeral director.
“He’s a funeral director.” she answered.
The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished and asked why she had married four men with
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He then asked her if she would mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living.
She smiled and explained, “I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four to go.”
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