Drakes Delivery
We have just received a new delivery from Drakes of London.
I placed the order last year in Japan.
It was with a certain amount of relief that I opened the boxes to see what had been ordered.
The night before my showroom appointment I had spent three hours in a Tokyo hospital after connecting my right eye socket with a wooden stool whilst having dinner.
So given I was jet lagged, slightly hung-over and groggy from pain medication, as well as slightly poorer from the hospital bill and with 4 new stitches in my head, I think I did remarkably well.

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