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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Knitting bored her, she couldn’t enjoy playing the piano, her book left her flat, and Samantha could not take her mind off the top grade smack she had under her pillow upstairs. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jennifer’s new iPad mini was a huge disappointment. “Maybe if I invent broadband it would help,” she thought. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Don’t fret, Lucinda. Sooner or later someone will invent table tennis and you can use it then.” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In a further step to combat the scourge of indecency Her Ladyship had nailed the servants' aprons to their legs. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The Master says this is the combination of the safe and one of his mates will be popping in later with 36 million pounds in used notes, so could you lock it away, ma'am?" #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Slonský fans can get another dollop of Prague lowlife with a new audiobook. Can you trust the word of witnesses 30 years after a crime? @saperebooks.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social

Audiobook cover for Slaughter and Forgetting, a crime novel set in Prague.

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lucinda retained her ladylike demeanour at all times when out with her beau. “Have the sprouts worn off yet?” shouted Gerald, romantically. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“0-60 in eight seconds if you give the horse that white powder in a cupful of this, miss. And it’ll probably work on your boyfriend too.” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“The chemist is starting to get suspicious. Ask him for six penny worth of strychnine and tell him the old lady at no. 3 is being troubled by moles.” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"I'm sorry she's dead too, but the girl should have known better than to sit behind me after cook gave us her figgy date bran loaf." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“When the doctor said I might need a steel plate after my accident I naturally assumed it would be inside my head.” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“It’s very good handwriting, Peterkins, but when did the maid teach you to spell orgasm?” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"I still say it was a mistake to put Gilbert and Sullivan in charge of the 1884 FA Cup Final half-time show," said Evadne as darkness fell over the pitch. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Keep looking at me, Daphne! Now, just a couple of steps nearer the camera..." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

'You misunderstand me, madam. When I said "Recently laid?" I was referring to the eggs in your basket. Although, given your answer, perhaps the omelette can wait.' #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Excuse me, miss. Have you seen a horse, about sixteen hands high, answers to the name of Wellington?" #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My own Italian great-uncle, Alfredo da Prato, was also interned there. He was aggrieved because he’d been here since the First World War, married an Englishwoman and had English children.

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"There! That little black and yellow one there was the one who bit me!" #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Charles, hitting yourself on the head to dull the pain of having cut your thumb makes no sense at all," said Lavinia. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"It's an early draft of Pride and Prejudice in which one of the Bennet sisters is a biological man and you have to work out which one before Mr Collins does." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“That’s one heck of a spliff you’re rolling there, Mary.” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Clarissa was just pondering whether the reins would go twice round Algernon's neck if he didn't pack in the dirty sidesaddle jokes. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"And my pater had these made from the Countess of Shropshire's knicker elastic after a particularly exciting ball at the Devonshires', don't you know?" #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“I’m perfectly prepared to come with you to the music hall tonight, Charles, but explain to me again why I must sit on your lap and keep repeating A Gottle of Geer.” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“It’s all my fault. I shouted at the television for Gabriel to aim high with that last penalty.” #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"No wonder he fainted if that's the kind of song you think is suitable as a lullaby." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Despite reading the manual three times Mary could not see anything about what to do if your entire left side has been removed by a robot vacuum cleaner. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When Albert accepted Victor's invitation to spend Sunday afternoon pulling a couple of birds, he had something else in mind entirely. #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"It's no good, Jemima," wailed Euphrosyne. "I just can't bear to look at their rowing technique." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Matilda opened her new Gutter Rap songbook, Joanna tried to work out which way up her copy of the Kama Sutra should be, while Emily was enjoying some of the best blow she'd bought in ages. Just a normal Sunday afternoon at the Rectory.

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

"I thought we might go together to put these on your husband's grave," said Herbert. "It's a nice gesture," Sarah agreed, "but I really think we should wait until I've clubbed him to death with this rolling pin first." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

"And you expect a kiss in exchange for that sorry lot?" demanded Samantha. "Come back with a dozen red roses and a bottle of champers and you might have a chance." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"You weren't told off for fishing in the lake, Geraldine. It was using your little sister as bait that Mummy was cross about." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"Bother!" said Georgina. "Not one of these gravestones is inscribed for a Herbert Wilkins. I'll have to buy a new one for Dad after all."

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"If you think this looks daft you should see the thing the Archbishop of Canterbury was wearing the other day." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"It was the last one in the milliner's, but I simply had to have it. Fortunately the woman who got in first was waiting for a hansom cab so I was able to cut the ribbons and snatch it. Shame about her ear, though." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"It followed me home from the department store, Jasper. Can we keep it?" #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"I know we need some more chairs for the ballroom, Charles, but sooner or later the Reform Club is going to work out that they're nineteen short and the 'I've forgotten my walking stick' excuse is going to wear thin." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"There are only two of us for breakfast, Miss. Why would we need 24 slices of toast and a gallon of tea?" #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"Tattooing instructions on your fingers is not going to help The Artist Who Can't Draw Hands, Eliza." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I was just wondering what happened to Hugh Trevor-Roper.

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"The manager of Tottenham Hotspur has sent a telegram to say that he saw you in that pose and wonders whether you are available to play in goal next weekend, Louisa." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"A very satisfactory day in Oxford Street, my dear. Under my dress I have three jumpers, eight bottles of gin and a store detective's ID that may come in useful." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Chewing them 32 times as Her Majesty would advise.

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"Sorry, my bum has never been good with courgettes," said Evelyn. "Go back to what you were saying about having fallen in love with my delicate feminine ways." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"Marry me, Persephone, and a small plastic copy of this pose will soon adorn every wedding cake in the land." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I don't even have to go abroad. There are a couple of great Eastern European supermarkets in Northampton and an Afro-Caribbean one too.

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"When we said we'd keep a welcome in the hillside, that was not a legally binding commitment." #GirlsOwnCC

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Graham Brack @grahambrack.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"It's very kind of Mummy to send you to play for me. I tell you what - let's go into town and buy a drum kit for your bedroom at home." #GirlsOwnCC

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