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#1: Peggy and the Hair Dye Author: Lisa_T, Location: Belfast

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:00 pm

Peggy Bettany looked morosely into the mirror in her mother’s bedroom. She could only see the top of her face for Peggy was built on a miniature scale, and when you’re only three, that’s very miniature indeed! She scowled at herself and pulled one dark curl out so that it became a long wavy strand.
“Vat’s not nice,” she thought mournfully to herself. “I don’t like that colour.”
“What are you doing, Peggy?” came a masterful little voice behind her, and she turned to see her slightly taller, and much sturdier, twin brother.
“I don’t like my hair,” Peggy told him sorrowfully. “It’s not nice. I don’t like black. Black’s a bad colour.”
Master Rix put his head to one side and surveyed her. “I vink you’re right,” he said at last. “Ladies shouldn’t have dark hair. Except Mummy,” he added.
“I want hair like Daddy’s!” Peggy told him.
“Vat’d be nice,” Rix agreed. He stood and thought again, before vanishing to reappear with a bottle.
“Try vis,” he instructed his twin sister. “Ayah says it makes things white. It make your hair white.”
Peggy, being a trusting little soul, did as she was told. The experience was both unpleasant and excruciatingly painful, for bleach does not react well with human skin. But the result was all that could be desired. Instead of the dark locks, so characteristic of the Bettanys, Peggy ‘s head was now covered by fair curls. Sadly, the effect was not permanent, but Peggy soon became so expert in the use of bleach as a hair dye that even those members of her family who knew the truth soon forgot it, and Peggy Bettany was henceforth always referred to in terms of ‘silvery fairness.’

Reference: Head Girl, - letter from Mollie to Madge. “Peggy is dark- like me, and Dick says, like Joey too.” Facsimile HB edition. Trust EBD!!!

#2: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:03 pm

How many more EBDisms can you sort out!

#3: Author: Cumbrian Rachel, Location: near High Wycombe

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:05 pm

I like it!!! Laughing

#4: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:50 pm

Lovely.

One post FCS, one word reply.

#5: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:48 pm

That's a good question, Pat? How many EBDisms can we sort out?

#6: Author: Nicci, Location: UK

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:50 pm

That was great Lisa. Had me grinning like a cheshire cat!

#7: Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:00 pm

Wonderful!

Imagining Peggy all the time at the Chalet School bleaching her hair! Laughing

#8: Author: PatMac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:05 pm

One post - one word reply - hilarious

#9: Author: Rachel, Location: Plotting in my lair; sometimes in Hampshire, England, UK, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, Universe

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:18 pm

That's fantastic Lisa! Who's your next victim??

#10: Author: Vikki, Location: Possibly in hell! It's certainly hot enough.......

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:22 pm

Oh!! Hysterical! Love the idea of a three year old Peggy bleaching her hair!!!!
Go Lisa!!!!!

#11: Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:24 am

Words not necesary.

#12: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:42 am

Oh, poor Lisa! She just posts this lovely bit and more is instantly demanded!

#13: Author: catherine, Location: York

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:30 am

Well of course, KB! And why not?

Fantastic, Lisa!

#14: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:39 am

No real reason, I suppose...

#15: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:49 pm

Great, Lisa, hilarious. Just imagine a six year old going to the hairdressers to get her roots touched up.

#16: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:11 pm

Absolutely fabulous, Lisa!!

#17: Author: Rebecca, Location: Kendal/Oxford

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:41 pm

LOL!!!

#18: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:16 am

Super story

#19: Author: Mandy, Location: Derry, N.Ireland

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:00 am

*wonders what kind of state her scalp was in by the time she married* Laughing

#20: Author: Lisa_T, Location: Belfast

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:13 am

*firmly* This si the CS, Mandy. We don't worry about little things like that! Laughing

#21: Author: Polly, Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:31 am

Enjoyed that!!

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