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Note : spoiler alerts Some time ago HarryC recommended the epic Western novel Lonesome Dove to me. It took some time but I got it out of the library...
I agree with ScoZen and Luigi we need some more entries for this challenge. So in the interest of quantity over quality here's my second one. Inspired by Blur's Song 2. (And yes, hampsteads really is cockney rhyming slang for teeth).
121 of my comments have received 147 Great Feedback votes
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Dream on
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
That's so funny, that's exactly what I was thinking ! Either the deputy, or the sheriff, will wake up in the shower (or even in the shower together ..) and find out it's all been a dream ..
When I was growing up in Southampton there was a place called 'Nazareth House' which was a home for 'unmarried mothers', where most if not all of the girls were Catholic teenagers. I remember the nuns who ran it coming to our house collecting...
Have you ever seen an old 1972 Woody Allen film called 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)' ? There's a scene in there which is along the same sort of...
Maybe nuclear weapons. Which their own intelligence chief told them didn't exist in the first place, but they 'obliterated' in the second place, and then started a war over in the third place. Them pesky nuclear weapons are mighty persistent.
I think it must have been Robbie, my neighbour's lovely three legged cat, who passed away recently. (He was actually Robin, as in Reliant Robin) He was an absolute porker and I'm not sure the bridge would have been up to his weight...
I loved this Jane ! It had an air of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I thought. And for all we know, maybe this is what happens. I'm so pleased he kept Floppy's ashes, they were far more important than the watch.
Dream on
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
That's so funny, that's exactly what I was thinking ! Either the deputy, or the sheriff, will wake up in the shower (or even in the shower together ..) and find out it's all been a dream ..
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 8.
Loved this ! Everything
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
Loved this ! Everything coming together
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 7
Small Things Like These
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
When I was growing up in Southampton there was a place called 'Nazareth House' which was a home for 'unmarried mothers', where most if not all of the girls were Catholic teenagers. I remember the nuns who ran it coming to our house collecting...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Aliens
Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2026
Ah that explains why the first lady's name is an anagram of AM ALIEN. Now we know !
Well done Jane.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass the Story - Part 10
The Tortoise Awakes
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026
Nobody wants to buy my Plovdiv cottage
. I've got it on the market at the same asking...
Read full commentPosted in The Last Flight
Oh brilliant ! This is
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026
Oh brilliant ! This is really funny and clever.
Have you ever seen an old 1972 Woody Allen film called 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)' ? There's a scene in there which is along the same sort of...
Read full commentPosted in Making Sense Of It All
Well if we're all being
Posted on Fri, 10 Apr 2026
Well if we're all being honest, can I say I am seventy one years old and I wasn't shocked or offended at all.
I really don't think we can say 'great humour has never offended'. What about the music halls ? Think Marie Lloyd singing "She...
Read full commentPosted in Joe - a dinosaur theme park story with hotdogs.
Now you see them ..
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
Maybe nuclear weapons. Which their own intelligence chief told them didn't exist in the first place, but they 'obliterated' in the second place, and then started a war over in the third place. Them pesky nuclear weapons are mighty persistent.
Read full commentPosted in Artemis Too?
Robbie says sorry
Posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2026
I think it must have been Robbie, my neighbour's lovely three legged cat, who passed away recently. (He was actually Robin, as in Reliant Robin) He was an absolute porker and I'm not sure the bridge would have been up to his weight...
Read full commentPosted in Things that he took to the Afterlife
I loved this Jane ! It had
Posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2026
I loved this Jane ! It had an air of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I thought. And for all we know, maybe this is what happens. I'm so pleased he kept Floppy's ashes, they were far more important than the watch.
Read full commentPosted in Things that he took to the Afterlife
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