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Hello, Elle!
Great news!
I told you Hector and company were a fine bunch!
Seriously, must be a great relief to your husband and you to be vindicated at long last!
So, very well done to you both for your tenacity in battling on against them!
Mr Jingles has returned?
Wow!
Just.... wow!
I bet you are delighted!

Hello again, Elle,
In the film, The Green Mile, a bad man stamped on Mr Jingles and killed him.
But John Coffey, a prisoner on death row, took Mr Jingles and resurrected him.
John had a special gift you see.
At the end of the film Mr Jingles was over one hundred years old.
Your Mr Jingles will be indestructible, too!

Hi, Rusty!
I wish I could be convinced that this definitely will be an end to the HMRC taradiddle.........but hopefully it will at least be the beginning of the end!
The HMRC had already involved a debt collecting agency!
I guess I can shake my letters in the faces of the bailiffs!
If I weren't so utterly fed up with the whole affair, I might consider suing the Inland Revenue for harassment and fraud!
I don't think I can live with the prospect of a Mr Jingles set to be continually resurrected until he reaches one hundred years old!!
The cat is having "deja vu" problems!
(Sorry, I cannot do accents)
Are you going to watch BGT tonight?
Or record it for later viewing?

Hello, Elle!
I shall likely watch BGT in the morning.
But you feel free to speak about it, if you wish, do not mind me!
I would hang on to your HMRC correspondence for a good while.
You never know if it may start up again!
I think you and Mr Jingles will get on fine.
Look at it this way...
He has chosen your home to stay in, so is paying you a terrific compliment, can't you see?
You are very lucky in that respect.
Many of us have no Mr Jingles to cheer up our day!
Lizzie won the women's Tour de Yorkshire today.
Was Miss Sharapova playing today?

Hi, Rusty!
I am writing this in one of the (long) adverts whilst watching BGT!
The judges have liked everything so far...
and Amanda has pressed the Gold Buzzer!
There are some very good performances , but I shall not comment further until you have watched the show for yourself.
I do not want to spoil the anticipation for you!
Don't worry, I have copies of all the correspondence with the HMRC - or at least from when I realised that there was going to be a problem - in a big file!
I shall keep it indefinitely!
Lizzie did well in the Tour de Yorkshire!
But Maria lost out to Kirsten Mladenovic in the Semi -Final!
I don't know how this will affect her with regard to the Roland Garros?

Hello, Elle!
Sharapova needs a wild card for Roland Garros.,
I have been searching!
But, she has done very well on her comeback.
Yes, Lizzie did well.
She has been helping her team mate, Anna van der Breggen, to several wins this year.
Today, I think Anna may have helped Lizzie!
I will watch BGT in the morning.
I am reading my book just now.

Hi, Rusty!
Umm, I wonder what will happen now - will Maria get her Wild Card, then, do you think?
There is such a lot of entirely justified bad feeling against her.......but money talks...and she has always been a huge draw.......
I have been catching up with "Casualty"...at last I am up-to-date with all the recorded episodes.
So which book are you reading?
One of your three latest purchases?

Hello, Elle!
Apparently the French tennis folk are making an announcement on FaceBook about the wild card, some time in May..
it may not just be about Maria, possibly an announcement of all the folk who have been awarded a wild card.
I am sure they want her, as you say, she is a big draw.
And her sponsor, Nike, will certainly want her there.
I am reading Miss Beckwith's book, "The Hills Is Lonely".
Gentle humour. I like it.

Hi, Rusty!
Does it not annoy you to be told that you can find something out by applying to Facebook?
It does me!
Why does your book title say 'The Hills "is" Lonely" rather than "are"?
There must be a reason?

Hello, Elle!
No, I do not go on FaceBook but we will hear very soon after, anyway.
"The Hills is Lonely" is the way that Morag speaks.
When Miss Beckwith needed a rest cure she placed an ad in a magazine and had several replies.
She had decided to go to a famhouse in Kent, but then she received this letter with a Hebridean postmark.

"Dear Madam,
Its just now I saw your advert when I got the book for the knitting pattern I wanted from my cousin Catriona. I am sorry I did not write sooner if you are fixed up if you are not in any way fixed up I have a good good stone house and tiles and my brother Ruari who will wash down with lime twice every year. Ruari is married and lives close by. She is not damp.
I live by myself and you could have the room that is not a kitchen and a bedroom reasonable.
I was in the kitchen of the laird's house till lately when he was changed God rest his soul the poor old gentleman that he was.
You would be very welcomed.
I have a cow for milk and eggs and the minister at the manse will be referee if you wish such.
Yours affectionately
MORAG McDUGAN
PS. She is not thatched. "

When Miss Beckwith read the letter from Morag she made up her mind she was going to the Hebrides!