09;00
1545 Pride of the fleet, flagship of Henry VIII, the Mary Rose sinks accidentally in Portsmouth harbour while attempting to engage the French in battle as king watches on
13:40
Durty grrrl once again using the ord du jour for sports correspondents ('shipped', as in "shipped" a tackle, "shipped" a knock to his leg) shouting down the bad phone line from some destination stadium, destroying the soundtrack even as she creates it, by keeping her lips too close and popping too much air into the pickup because her dad wanted a boy.
An unfamiliar, sweet-sounding girl at this end reads the headlines in a flat voice, not really understanding what she's saying when unenthusiastically she says, "Ligament strain" means some player is "doubtful for the pool game."
14:50
The Health Ministry, with her do, looks like Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, thirty years and two hundred pounds later.
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| Around the mouth, I think |
