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A week away - and I am not in charge!

For years I've always organised the days

Ensuring hours are profitably spent,

All educated in the local ways

With dates and vistas, views and monuments,

Till they merge in a pleasurable haze

Of boots and sticks, pub lunches, strange hotels,

Recalled for ducks in bathrooms, bedroom keys,

Reused teabags, small towels and soft beds,

House-rules on post-it notes and sneaked cream teas

Between full-English and the evening's meal;

Confusing and confused these memories please

Because, beside the days we can't recall,

They bring to mind real friendships which wont pall.

Brian Hick July 2014

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