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Less anticipated perils of nudism: Naked German women found in woods

Less amusingly, exploitation of berry pickers.

Apparently Morrisons sells jars of bilberries from Poland (where they are presumably picked by Poles), and any potential radioactivity doesn't present a health hazard. Alas, I don't have a local Morrisons. I shall have to go to Ilkley Moor when in the north later this month.

ETA: Comments frozen as nude hikers appear to attract lots of spam!

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I shall try to be reassured. As long as it _definitely_ works out and Peter returns from flouncing off to France, though at this point I am wondering if they'll have to sell the house.

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Peter isn't going to go flouncing off to France - he's only just come back from there, and has seen Dreadful Things, and however fraught the domestic atmosphere may be, it can't be as bad as that.

Perhaps Helen will turn up to lecture him about how Harriet shouldn't have been living on her own with That Man, because who knows what might have happened, and Peter will retort that he wouldn't care if it did, and suddenly realises that this is true. And then he and Bunter go and get raging drunk together.

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I wrote a two-line sequel in which Peter went straight back to France and got himself dead but it was in e-mail and I don't have access to it at the moment. I don't believe it myself but it is useful to threaten people who hassle me about sequels with (evil grin).

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(Un?)Happily, I have the email:

antisoppist's evil ending:

"Peter left the next morning, bound for London and ultimately once more to France.

This time he did not come back."

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azdak.livejournal.com

This is so much more sophisticated than the version I had imagined, which ran, "'Fuck you! Both of you!' said Peter, and flounced off to France, where he was promptly shot."

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"Already have done!"

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Perfect! Happy endings all round (except for Bunter and the fact that P's alive, but perhaps P being alive will beat even the thwarted prospect of a longer-term arrangement with H). I can just see Helen bitching about it to her friends, and then feeling obliged to talk to Peter, "It's all very well his talking about duty, Marjorie, but he ought to have remembered his duty to his family."

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perhaps P being alive will beat even the thwarted prospect of a longer-term arrangement with H

Bunter's had plenty of practice at putting Peter's needs before his own. He'll cope, even if his hand does sometimes tremble, very slightly, as he helps Harriet into her coat.

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Bunter and Harriet will cope. I was all prepared for Peter to cope too until you both came up with far too many reasons why he wouldn't. But killing him off again instantly is a cop out and it's a bit unfair on B&H to bring him back only so that they can cause his death again. I have a theoretical happy-ish ending but getting P&H out of staring at each other over that bed will take a while.

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I was all prepared for Peter to cope too until you both came up with far too many reasons why he wouldn't

This is why you should never listen to critics. They change their minds as they change their coats.

I have a theoretical happy-ish ending but getting P&H out of staring at each other over that bed will take a while

I do hope it include Peter taking a swing at Bunter. I think the poor man ought to be allowed to get the anger out of his system before embarking on forgiveness all round (see above remark about critics). I mean, being grown-up is all very well, but I'd have been devastated in his place.

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I have a theoretical happy-ish ending but getting P&H out of staring at each other over that bed will take a while

Hurray, and I promise to try not to nag too much.

Bunter can just go off and find himself a girlfriend who is a bit like Harriet and yet an inferior model, with whom he will console himself, though ever aware that - oh, sorry, someone's already written that.

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I was pleased to find that although my mother has a copy of Thrones Dominations, it is filed in the guest bedroom upside down under a pile of P G Wodehouse and its pages have clearly never been opened.