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Once, yes once in the far distant past my office up at the top of the house was as tidy and as organised an office at the top of the house as one could wish for. Those days have gone, but in an effort to regain something of my past tidy office glory I had a bit of tidy up. In the middle of a pile of bits of paper I found this
In August 1991 I did not know a Jessica or Sam Colman, and in any case was newly arrived in Northampton, living in digs. Faced with such a mystery naturally my first thought was to tweet about it. Others could perhaps smile at our own past childish enthusiams, and then it would be forgotten and we'd all go back to whatever it was we were doing.
But no ...
@jezhiggins Bit of a long shot, but... @Jesscolman?
— Emma Wright (@editorialgirl) August 16, 2014
By this time, I'd remembered that the people who lived here before we did were called Colman. That solved part of the mystery, although it still doesn't explain how the note ended up in a pile in my office. I clicked through @Jesscolman, who turns out to be the producer of Coast, and then ...
@editorialgirl @jezhiggins Ha! That is me! Where did you find that? In the attic? How funny
— jessica colman (@Jesscolman) August 16, 2014
@editorialgirl @jezhiggins my brother and I left hundreds of notes like that round the house.Most under floorboards! Some in tins in garden
— jessica colman (@Jesscolman) August 16, 2014
Well, blimey!
@Jesscolman I'm having a tidy up in my office and it just turned up in a pile of stuff :) Should I hide it again? // @editorialgirl
— Jez Higgins (@jezhiggins) August 16, 2014
@jezhiggins @editorialgirl yes! So lovely to see it!
— jessica colman (@Jesscolman) August 16, 2014
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