One of my Dad’s neighbours was a massively tall old Jamaican woman, and she used to call my Dad ‘Mr Walking Dance Man’ and used to tell him he had ‘no right walking like a young man’ at his age. When he died I went across to tell her and invite her to his funeral and she…
Amelia Pepper
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- Replying to @PervyPepperShe turned up to the funeral wearing a huge black hat, a leopard faux fur coat and a gold topped cane and held court amongst my Bristol kin. Amazing woman!
- Replying to @PervyPeppercollapsed on the stairs wailing. She then pulled out her phone and dialled her son shouting ‘Barry! He’s dead, Barry! Mr Walking Dance Man is dead’ She then recovered and she took me into her living room and showed me her collection of Princess Di photos. High point amongst grief
- Unpacked new duvet, put it down and walked out the room for two minutes. Came back:
- Saw the Farmer this morning in his little golf buggy. Said that she visited me every day and I wanted to buy her. He said ‘oh, next time she visits just put them in your garden and close the gate. I like the idea of her being a pet’ Not how I imagined the conversation 😆
- I mentioned to BF this morning that I wanted a table for the garden. Had a bad night last night so had a nap and woke up and went out to find this, which he has made from pallets because we can’t afford one:
- My boyfriend is upstairs packing, as he is moving out. So I’m downstairs buying new shoes.
- Years ago I was bored so I went into the AOL chat rooms and decided to go in ‘Ohio chat’ to chat to a random American. There was one other person in there and we started chatting, funnily enough we were both the same age and actually both in England, not Ohio. I told him I was in
- Replying to @PervyPepperAnd just because…here’s a pretty old photo of me and my Dad ‘Mr Walking Dance Man’ himself.
- Replying to @PervyPepperManchester and was pretty surprised when he said he was too. Even more surprised when he said he was in Didsbury, like me. Anyway, turned out he was a classmate from school that I hadn’t seen in years. He was at my house for a cup of tea ten minutes later.
- Replying to @im_all_idI met someone in a club and when I asked him what he did I thought he said ‘magician’, so asked him to show me tricks. He looked surprised, but did. It wasn’t until much later I found out he’d said musician.
- I try to arrange the cats as neatly as possible when they aren’t in use.








