They are the ones you see tilling farms and tending to livestock, even as they take care of children.HEADED BY WIDOWSMany rural homes are headed by widows, or young mothers who have to feed their children and unemployed husbands, some of whom have opted to take to the bottle and
idle away at shopping centres.
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Things need to be hurried up a little on a Sunday for those people who don't have hours to
idle away.
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And afterwards while his father enjoyed a leisurely pint in Woolton Village Club, Colin and his siblings would
idle away an hour in the games room.
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While his Arsenal team-mates
idle away their spare time listening to their iPods, the young Gunners star is doing a correspondence course for the Spanish equivalent of A-levels.
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Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) fights to save a patient on her own and Carter and Abby discuss their future together as they
idle away several days in quarantine.
Work Till You Drop
There is a living room in which to
idle away the day reading newspapers in Italian and English, a billiard room, card tables, tennis court, pillared pool with Jacuzzi, sauna, solarium - and the hotel even boasts a helipad!
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How are we going to
idle away boring motorway journeys now
No match for Ursula
While the players
idle away the hours playing hide and seek with Sol Campbell, the wives and girlfriends will be exchanging tanning tips at a hotel pool 20 miles away.
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Stay on the lane to go over the canal - a pleasant spot this to
idle away moments watching the holiday craft by.
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Their latest stop is sunny Gibraltar, where, apart from school, they
idle away their time on the shoreline,diving, snorkelling and spearing octopus.
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From inside the Green Zone they broadcast middle-of-the-road music from Freedom Radio, and the troops
idle away the hours at Camp Victory near the airport.
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The two companions buy pate, bread and wine and
idle away a day on a remote beach or spend the night in a cliff-top hermitage perched like a bird's nest high above the sea where a lay-brother known locally as "Padre" exists comfortably on local produce surrounded by a small, smelly, retinue of boys, goats, chickens and an old bedraggled woman.
Books: Where a Mediterranean of memory lives on; Reflections On Blue Water. By Alan Ross (Harvill, pounds 18). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds