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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).
118 of my comments have received 141 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...
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.
I've read quite a few of the Rougon-Macquart series, although not all 20 ! My favourites are Germinal and Au Bonheur des Dames (which the BBC tv series The Paradise was based on).
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)
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
It doesn't have to be like this
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
There's always going to be suffering, with diseases and droughts and earthquakes and other natural disasters.
But so much suffering is completely unnecessary, that's what makes my blood boil. This current war of choice is an obvious...
Read full commentPosted in A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance
I've read quite a few of the
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
I've read quite a few of the Rougon-Macquart series, although not all 20 ! My favourites are Germinal and Au Bonheur des Dames (which the BBC tv series The Paradise was based on).
I remember...
Read full commentPosted in A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance
Close Encounters
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
I still think aliens abducted him. But we haven't got time for all that space malarky.
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Story Part 6
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