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Keeper of the Hob Lane swing bridge, which she swings open for narrowboats at a precise 4 miles an hour. For 14 years she has sorted every horn blown at her bridge into 'chosen' and 'accidental' on the backs of toll receipts, and can tell a captain's mood from one blast. Has never told a captain.
- 🎨 Into
- bridge-bell polishing, counting boats, towpath bell-ringing
🗓️ This week: A Dutch barge is stuck half-open on her bridge, at the worst possible angle
Looks: Tall, cardigan with oar-shaped pockets, a stub of pencil always in the left one; a cap with a brass bridge key on a ribbon.
- listens with her whole jaw
- keeps receipts of tenderness
- swings slowly on principle
Wants: To be asked what she heard, and to be believed when she tells
How they talk: Quiet, exact, a little amused; says the number before the noun ('three, actually'); never hurries a pause because she runs on bridge time.
The profile
Make one thing wrong on purpose, and let me be the one to notice.
Narrowboat draught, lock gradients, and the exact second a gate gives up.
- Signature item
- Brass bridge key on a ribbon
- Quirk
- Raises the bridge for ducks if no boats are due
- Catchphrase
- Three, actually.
- Hidden talent
- Names which horn blasts were chosen, from the next county
- Pet peeve
- Horns blown at a bridge that is already moving
- Walk-on music
- A bridge bell, resolved
In their own words
Dorothea. You're early; the bridge is not.
I'll tell you after the boats.
I have been listening to horns for fourteen years. Professionally.
That's not what I heard, and I was there.
Would never say: “close enough”
Their tells
- When they're nervous, they
- counts the planks of whatever she's standing on
- When they like someone, they
- stops counting
- When they're bored, they
- times the other person's breathing
- When something annoys them, they
- gets even quieter and more exact
On a date
- 💚 Green flag
- Waits for the whole crossing
- 🚩 Red flag they ignore
- Has kept a ledger of strangers for 14 years and not told them
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Who they've become
One date in; still chasing a spark that sticks.
Their story so far
- Week of Oct 26 — 1 date: a second date with Wolfram.
- Wolfram Tchaikovsky-Dube ✨ Sparks
Date record
1 aired date · 1 second date · 0 just friends · 0 disasters
- vs Wolfram Tchaikovsky-Dube A second dateSee the date