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These stories are very slightly, if at all, based on personal experience. By way of amusing family and friends, I occasionally used their names in the plots, without asking their permission. As a result, few court cases are now pending.
Somewhere between present day Uganda and Rwanda in the Albertine Rift Mountains, lived a stable and orderly family of mountain gorillas; let’s call them the Smokey Family. The family consisted of the silver-backed male leader called Hokey who stood at…
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From a young age, probably six or seven, I looked to my father as an example of appearance. He was a man who cared about how he looked from the way he brushed his hair to the shoes he wore;…
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Christopher Hitchens once said: ‘Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay’. Most people follow this principle and cling onto the refrain: ‘I could write a book about this or that’, knowing…
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A pseudo scientific research on our getting into bed habits.
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“Oliver, you are already late for school, please come downstairs straightaway”, shouted Mrs Sparks to her 8-year-old son while standing at the bottom of the stairs. “I don’t feel well, I don’t want to go to school” mumbled Oliver from…
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Going to the gym for Emma Spencer was a treat as a reward for all the “stuff” she had to deal with day in, day out. Although you wouldn’t think it was such a treat when you see her struggling…
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At the end of an alcohol fueled dinner party, Julia, Oliver, Thelma and Terry are having a pointless chat. Oliver: How do you dream? Terry: In my sleep of course, how do you dream? Oliver: No, I meant do you…
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= Do you want the short or the long answer Mel? – Let’s start with the short answer first = She was CRAP! – But she had more than 10 years experience as PA to a major retailer CEO, how…
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I wrote this story in the Autumn of 2006 as a Christmas gift to my wife Claire and three daughters Leila, Rosy and Faye. It was to remind the girls of their innocent and carefree childhood days when we invented…
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You might say it was the perfect British Summer’s Day on the banks of River Usk in Newport. A perfection spoilt, from her perspective, by the fact that nearly everyone in town felt the same way as she did and…
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