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    Just a flying visit

    May 15, 2022 3 minutes
    GREG DIXON

    ‘Have you got flies?”

    My 85-year-old father ‘Have had phoned me, as he usually does on a Sunday afternoon, so that we can talk about the usual stuff: my weather and his weather, his lawn and my lawns, my health and his health, his views on the bloody government and my views on the bloody government. So he’d temporarily thrown me with the question about flies.

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