"Patience is a virtue,
Possess it if you can,
Seldom found in woman,
Never found in man."
In October 2008 DB & I hired a car with a driver for a week in Sri Lanka. It was absolutely excellent value and we had wonderful experiences. We were taken to all the usual tourist sites by a friendly, English speaking driver, and at night we stayed in a variety of accommodations. On the very last night, we were treated by the tour company to a night at a five star hotel as they had learned of my obsessive collection. They had also set up an interview with the local newspaper. "The Nation".
Two reporters and a photographer arrived and conducted an extensive interview. They were amazed by the number of pegs I had collected on this particular trip. Sri Lanka is not the best place to enable a peg collector to add to his collection, but we had stopped in another, more productive country en route from England to Australia. In Bangalore, India, I had added at least 40 new pegs to my bulging suitcase so there were plenty of examples for them to see.
Hoping to see the resulting article online, I checked (quite often) when we first arrived at home. However, there was nothing to see and so I put it to the back of my mind. I gave up too soon because very recently DB stumbled across the article in the newspaper dated 22nd February 2009. I had obviously lost patience too soon but thank DB for finally letting me see myself!
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