I know I wanted to scrub out my eyeballs and boil them. It took me days to start to feel clean clean after this visit.
I know I wanted to scrub out my eyeballs and boil them. It took me days to start to feel clean clean after this visit.
‘Now all good. No problem’ he said. You’re sure this is going to be OK?’ I said squinting at him suspiciously.
The Empress was apparently an exotic beauty but died early at only 38 – maybe because of the thirteen children she bore him. Another reason to turn down too many amorous advances or, your bloke, will literally be the death of you.
I walked across the field first ignoring, a perfectly good path. I hadn’t checked if there were snakes, I looked back but the driver smiled benignly and waved me on.
I could imagine myself slumping around on a bejewelled divan groaning at the heat, and dipping my hand in to splash water on my face while inhaling sweet perfume from beautiful flowers I’m sure I had some fabulous palace in an earlier incarnation.