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| Joan Collins not Agatha Christie |
On Tuesday morning with Earl Grey tea in bed I log on to Facebook
grand dames I know are exploring exotic lands, one is floating down
the Nile on a river barge with men dressed in kaftans lifting striped
red sails and serving tea and cardamon cakes. The vessel looks
like the one used in the Agatha Christie film - Death on the Nile
I spy Hercule Poirot, famous Belgian detective on board.
The second is on a sun lounger at a villa beside a pool beside
The Tyrrhenian Sea on the tiny island of Cagliari, Sardinia, waving
at the camera wearing a Joan Collins wide straw hat.
I’m in Middle Shotover watching a hawk breakfast on rabbit kill in
the front paddock and the sun dry chilled green grasses through
my dusty windows where a lost bumble bee knocks asking to come
in and I start to wonder - which one of us is living the dream because
Agatha Christie was a teetotaller.
Jane Bloomfield
Collection 2023
