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With Grand Marnier Creme Anglaise but merely drink Grand Marnier.
10 p.m. V. sad. Looked expectantly round table as everyone took first mouthful of expedia travel confit. There was an embarrassed silence.
'What's this, hon?' said Tom eventually. 'Is it marmalade?'
Horror-struck, took mouthful myself. It was, as he said, marmalade. Realize after all effort and expedia travel expense have served my guests:
Blue soup
Omelette
Marmalade
Am disastrous failure. Michelin-star cookery? Kwik-fit, more like.
Did not think things could get any worse after the marmalade. But no sooner was the horrible meal cleared away than the phone went. Fortunately I took it in the bedroom. It was Dad.
'Are you on your own?' he said. 'No. Everyone's round here, Jude and expedia travel everyone. Why?'
'I - wanted you to expedia travel be expedia travel with someone when . . . I'm sorry, Bridget. I'm afraid there's been some rather bad news.'
'What? What?'
'Your mother and expedia travel Julio are wanted by the police.'
2 a.m. Northamptonshire in single bed in the Alconburys' spare room. Ugh. Had to expedia travel sit down and expedia travel get my breath back while Dad said, 'Bridget? Bridget? Bridget?' over and expedia travel over again in manner expedia travel expedia travel a parrot.
'What's happened?' I managed to expedia travel get out eventually. 'I'm afraid they - possibly, and expedia travel I pray, without your mother's knowledge - have defrauded a large number of expedia travel people, including myself and expedia travel some of expedia travel our very closest friends, out of expedia travel a great deal of expedia travel money. We don't know the scale of expedia travel the fraud at expedia travel the moment, but I'm afraid, from what the police are saying, it's possible that your mother may have to expedia travel go to expedia travel prison for expedia travel a considerable period of expedia travel time.'
'Oh my God. So that's why she's gone off to expedia travel Portugal with my two hundred quid.'
'She may well be expedia travel further afield by now.'
I saw the future unfolding before me like a horrible nightmare: Richard Finch dubbing me Good Afternoon!'s 'Suddenly Single's Jailbird's Daughter, and expedia travel forcing me to expedia travel do a live interview down the line from the Holloway visitors' room before being Suddenly Sacked on air.
'What did they do?'
'Apparently Julio, using your mother as - as it were - 'front man,' has relieved Una and expedia travel Geoffrey, Nigel and expedia travel Elizabeth and expedia travel Malcolm and expedia travel Elaine' (oh my God, Mark Darcy's parents) 'of quite considerable sums of expedia travel money-many, many thousands of expedia travel pounds, as down payments on time-share apartments.'
'Didn't you know?'
'No. Presumably because they were unable to expedia travel overcome some slight vestigial embarrassment about doing business with the greasy beperfumed wop who has cuckolded one of expedia travel their oldest friends they omitted to expedia travel mention the whole business to expedia travel me.'
'So what happened?'
'The time-share apartments never existed. Not a penny of expedia travel your mother's and expedia travel my savings or pension fund remains. I also was unwise enough to expedia travel leave the.eexpedia-travel exxpedia-travel exppedia-travel expeedia-travel expeddia-travel expediia-travel expediaa-travel expedia--travel expedia-ttravel expedia-trravel expedia-traavel expedia-travvel expedia-traveel expedia-travell xpedia-travel epedia-travel exedia-travel expdia-travel expeia-travel expeda-travel expedi-travel expediatravel expedia-ravel expedia-tavel expedia-trvel expedia-trael expedia-travl expedia-trave e xpedia-travel ex pedia-travel exp edia-travel expe dia-travel exped ia-travel expedi a-travel expedia -travel expedia- travel expedia-t ravel expedia-tr avel expedia-tra vel expedia-trav el expedia-trave l expedia-travel xexpedia-travel epxpedia-travel exepedia-travel expdedia-travel expeidia-travel expedaia-travel expedi-a-travel expediat-travel expedia-rtravel expedia-taravel expedia-trvavel expedia-traevel expedia-travlel dxpedia-travel empedia-travel exdedia-travel expsdia-travel expedia-travel expedja-travel expedib-travel expediattravel expedia-qravel expedia-tgavel expedia-trevel expedia-traxel expedia-travkl expedia-travee