IS VP A MAD, AXE-WIELDING ALIEN FROM SATURN?

This is fun!

I'll be meeting VP for the first time on Monday.

She's coming to Dorset and suggests we have coffee together.

I'll find out if she really exists!

(If she is who she says she is.)

I'll ask hard questions.

(Suggestions?)

Poundbury Garden Centre is pretty upmarket.

(Not quite Austin, Texas - but getting there.)

Sofas in the café and home-made cakes. (No muddy boots or putting our feet up on chairs!)

Ming will take a day off school.

(He insists.)

(Didcott will be at the 'Mary Rose' with the rest of their class.)

(More Tudors!)

Ming will lurk in town.

(Different café.)

He'll be playing 'GO' (boring, ancient Japanese Game) - with a rural clergyman friend who has a very large beard.
(False?)
(Beard; not friendship.)
I don't play it.
(GO.)
(Actually, I'm not bright enough. I don't know where to put the pieces and I cry if I lose.)
(And I do.)
(Lose.)
(Always.)
But if VP turns out to be a mad, axe wielding alien from Saturn instead of a respectable gardening lady from Chippenham (which seems to be Ming's main concern) - he'll be there in a flash.
So I'm safe.
(Probably - it's a fifteen minute walk up hill.)
(But he's got long legs.)
(Green.)

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For Tomorrow