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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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“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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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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Walter Patch is a genius but no one knows it, least of all, Walter himself. Walter is always thinking of new ideas and inventions but he ignores them for a while until eventually someone else comes along and thinks of…
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It was a Friday and Riesling took her bacon butty and Turkish Delight lunch pack and walked to the river front. Her usual bench was free and she could easily have sat there and got on with her lunch as…
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You wouldn’t have guessed it from her name but, Riesling is a Welsh woman through and through. She was born in Casnewydd (Newport to you and me), and she intends to die in Casnewydd, and that’s a fact. Her mother…
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Walter turned up at the M&S main entrance in Commercial Street just after 6:00 p.m. He didn’t know where exactly Riesling would emerge from and asked a member of staff in the front who directed him towards the staff entrance…
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