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Elle, appears to be 1988.
http://biblio.co.uk/book/dictionary-phrase-fable-isbn-086136788x-0/d/713108768

Hi, Rusty!
You are full of good ideas! - yes, that worked - up to a point... I found out that the volume was published in 1988 - no other info.
No idea from whence the book came!
It looks ancient , yellowing pages , browning at the edges........ cannot remember getting it......like 'Topsy' it "just growed"!

Snap! I must have goggled it just as you did!

Hi Elle. Thank you! The lady concerned (who is 60 on Friday) is apparently mad on tennis. I thought a court would be easiest, and have just finished painting the tennis racquets.
However, compared with the Jubilee cake I made, this is almost trivial. Just bad timing
R

Rusty, Two French guys in a break at present, P. Fedrigo
from Bretagne-Seche and one whose name I did not catch from Cofidis. Hope they make to the end but it's quite a long way away yet .

Pigale, the other man is Kenneth van Bilsen, a Belgian rider.
Not sure if they will be allowed to stay away.
The scenery is very enjoyable.
No sign of a bear for Elle....yet!

Their lead is only just over 4 minutes.
That could be very easily pulled back on the mountain.

Elle, no bears....yet.
Just saw a huge eagle, though!
You wont see many like that in Croydon!

Rusty, so where is my bear?
Missed the eagle.... I must have been in the garden with the dog..
Just taking her out now for a walk.....
Back later... ( I have set the recorder).......

~Froome did it Rusty ! I thought he would do well, and now, quite frankly, I see him as a potential winner overall, right to the end - in any case he has my support even if I would like to see Contador do a little effort.

Apart from the BretagneSeche and the Cofidis guys who did a lot of work but could not last the whole way (the lead was almost 15mns when I mentioned to you) , the French disgraced themselves!

Beautiful eagle, and beautiful scenery of my favourite mountains, ahead of the Massif Central which I like too. The Alps are beautiful but too manucured; the Pyrenees are wild.