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20 January 2017Leave a Comment on Written off

Written off

Gerald sat staring at the free newspaper that he had found on the doormat, but the stories about school exam …

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16 November 2011Leave a Comment on Further than expected

Further than expected

Hegarty hadn’t intended things to take such a turn, far from it. He’d genuinely just wanted to see the view …

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6 September 2011Leave a Comment on Poetry can rhyme

Poetry can rhyme

Poems benefit from having a themeAs long as it isn’t ‘it was all a dream’.Poems are better forFull use of …

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16 June 2011Leave a Comment on Return to Zone K

Return to Zone K

We were having such a good laugh at the expense of a fat girl staggering along on high heels; short …

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12 June 2011Leave a Comment on Paradise

Paradise

My neighbour’s been to Canada, and now he knows all about it. As far as I understand he’s only been …

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16 May 2011Leave a Comment on Nobel Laureate

Nobel Laureate

The tests are promising – now run the stats. A piddling two percent for no effect, And eighty three percent …

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2 May 2011Leave a Comment on Double glazing

Double glazing

Of course Philip’s had his own room for forty years now, but it was only last month that I decided …

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26 April 2011Leave a Comment on Head start

Head start

The governors of St Oswald’s were delighted that Gordon Stanmore was starting today as their new Head Teacher. The preceding …

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31 March 2011Leave a Comment on The punster

The punster

Nige delighted in puns. They came so readily to his lips that he could hardly manage a sentence without one. …

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30 March 2011Leave a Comment on All black

All black

A ‘wardrobe malfunction’

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