‘She who must be obeyed’ is getting a bit pissed off, because she thinks my readers will think that she is a miserable old battle-axe, so I’ve offered to refer to her in future as … ‘Mein Führer’ … but she is still not happy.
I could call her .. ‘er in doors’ .. but that is so common, and .. ‘the old trouble and strife’ .. and .. ‘me old Dutch’ .. would not be understood by most of my American friends (or many British ones come to that).
I wonder if she is unhappy because she thinks that I pinched her title from that great old TV series ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’, in which Horace Rumpole always referred to Hilda, his formidable wife, as .. “She Who Must Be Obeyed” ?
Well nothing could be further from the truth, for I am a fan of author H. Rider Haggard and I picked her ‘nom de blog’ because she reminds me so much of …
