you have to feel for the poor bloke - what were they doing interviewing his neighbour?! it's a bit sad, really, having your lovelife dissected in the national press, with the information divulged by your nosy middle-aged neighbours! i'm sure he's going to need counselling to get over it. maybe the girl ran off with him because she felt sorry for him.

the runaway couple


when i was a teenager i was a right tearaway. i remember telling my english teacher about my trouble with my parents because they did not approve of my then-boyfriend. mrs. quick smiled, a lovely wrinkly smile and said, "well then, my dear, why don't you elope?".
a scary thing to say to such a highly-strung teenager as myself - it's a good thing she only taught me english.

maybe the runaways had a mad english teacher too.