Despatch Six
The story so far:
Tatiana is employed by a Oleg, a Russian oligarch exiled at sea on his yacht the Flying Dutchman (Letushchy Golandets, Letgo for short). Her job is to brief him on all aspects of British life pending his arrival in London. Oleg and his wife Natalya (Natasha) have a son Nicholas (Kolya)who is down for Eton. Tatiana has a bodyguard Alexander (Sasha) with whom she recently had to flee to a safe house in a remote part of Scotland. Due to difficulties with the bank, which has frozen Oleg’s account, Tatiana has had to let the basement of her house in London and Sasha has got a job as a roadie until Christmas with a touring theatre company...
Dear Olly
My stay in Scotland has turned out to be most instructive. Sasha and I were wandering through one of the little towns near our safe house – he takes care to camouflage himself as a hunter in army fatigues, with his Kalashnikov slung carelessly over his shoulder, in case someone springs another little surprise on us such as the maggot egg which turned out be a microdot in the apple (see my earlier despatch). Anyway, we were strolling through this little town, and turned up a backstreet so that Sasha could relieve himself discreetly in one of the pretty front gardens full of autumn colour, when we noticed a number of people smoking outside a noble-looking stone building of 19th century design, an Institute for the improvement of the peasantry. Curious to know what was going on, we followed them back into the building and discovered that there was a Planning Inquiry in progress, into a windfarm!
The copyright and all other rights in this blog and the characters featured in it belong to Tatiana Larin-Gremin, and they may not be copied, adapted or otherwise used without her agreement.
Tatiana is employed by a Oleg, a Russian oligarch exiled at sea on his yacht the Flying Dutchman (Letushchy Golandets, Letgo for short). Her job is to brief him on all aspects of British life pending his arrival in London. Oleg and his wife Natalya (Natasha) have a son Nicholas (Kolya)who is down for Eton. Tatiana has a bodyguard Alexander (Sasha) with whom she recently had to flee to a safe house in a remote part of Scotland. Due to difficulties with the bank, which has frozen Oleg’s account, Tatiana has had to let the basement of her house in London and Sasha has got a job as a roadie until Christmas with a touring theatre company...
Dear Olly
My stay in Scotland has turned out to be most instructive. Sasha and I were wandering through one of the little towns near our safe house – he takes care to camouflage himself as a hunter in army fatigues, with his Kalashnikov slung carelessly over his shoulder, in case someone springs another little surprise on us such as the maggot egg which turned out be a microdot in the apple (see my earlier despatch). Anyway, we were strolling through this little town, and turned up a backstreet so that Sasha could relieve himself discreetly in one of the pretty front gardens full of autumn colour, when we noticed a number of people smoking outside a noble-looking stone building of 19th century design, an Institute for the improvement of the peasantry. Curious to know what was going on, we followed them back into the building and discovered that there was a Planning Inquiry in progress, into a windfarm!
The copyright and all other rights in this blog and the characters featured in it belong to Tatiana Larin-Gremin, and they may not be copied, adapted or otherwise used without her agreement.
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