Have you ever met anyone called Leonora? (John W.)
Yes, John, strangely enough I have. I was researching an article about lethal pine-cones, as one does, and for comparison purposes needed to know the weight of an average coconut so the lovely Leonora kindly put one on her scales for me in the grocer's shop she was then working in. This was on the S. Devon coast, but it turned out that by an amazing coincidence she hailed from the next village down the Wye in Herefordshire from the one I lived near for six golden youthful years.
Ahhh . . . but then ohhh . . . she had married a local Labour activist, so it was not to be. (Sob)
The coconut weighed about 2 pounds, by the way. You never know when that sort of information might come in useful.
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