The Diary Of A Provincial Lady: The Carruthers Affair
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. |
| 0:15.5 | Every week, I will read you an old story to help you relax of the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep. |
| 0:30.6 | Occasionally, we will run ads in order to cover the costs of the production of the podcast. |
| 0:43.9 | Rest assured, there will be no ads during or after the story. |
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| 1:01.5 | Visit JustSleeppodcast.com slash support for more information. |
| 1:10.3 | Tonight. for more information. |
| 1:16.5 | Tonight, I will be continuing the story, |
| 1:19.4 | the diary of a provincial lady. |
| 1:26.0 | So lie down, close your eyes, |
| 1:29.3 | and let me read you a story. |
| 1:35.1 | March 20th. |
| 1:40.4 | More registry offices, less success than ever. |
| 1:47.1 | Barbara Blinkensop comes to tea with me at my club and says that Streatham is a very gay and that her friends took her to a dance last night and a Mr. Crosby Carruthers drove her home |
| 1:53.3 | afterwards in his car. We then talked about clothes, dresses all worn long in the evening, |
| 2:00.4 | disgraceful but not hygienic. |
| 2:02.9 | Women will never again submit to long skirts in the daytime, most people growing their |
| 2:07.6 | hair. But eventually Barbara reverts to Mr. Cece and asks if I think a girl makes herself |
| 2:13.9 | cheap by allowing a man friend to take her out to dinner in Soho. |
| 2:18.4 | I say no, not at all, and inwardly decide that Vicky would look nice as a bridesmaid |
| 2:23.5 | and blue taffeta with little reef of bansier roses. |
| 2:28.8 | A letter from Dear Robin forwarded from home arrives tonight. |
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