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Friday's Quote of the Day

09:54 UK time, Friday, 7 November 2008

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"One of the more cushy postings... the Seychelles. It's all amazing beaches, palm trees and jealous friends and relatives" - FCO envoy Marianne McCurrie on her latest posting

Ms McCurrie is a "worldwide floater" for the Foreign Office and sometimes this job of locum-at-large has its benefits. But the intrepid envoy was not anticipating the media storm that her musings on a lovely stay in the Seychelles would provoke. She noted sagely on her next blog entry: "I take the point that during the current financial crisis people don't want to hear too much about the upsides to what I'm doing."

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