Category Archives: humour

Bunter Macingtosh Flirts With An Executive Lifestyle

Posted on July 27, 2020 by

When a letter arrived, addressed to Mr B.J. Macintosh from L.J.Lemmings Ltd, digital security experts, who boast that even their luncheon menu is encrypted, inviting me to be interviewed for a position in their Cyber Security department I was baffled. … Continue reading →

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The Unexpected Letter

Posted on July 13, 2020 by

Looking back it was like our last hurrah. A record of my “Heyday,” as I like to call it, marking our charge toward hope, fame and glory with a photograph or two: me, Sarah, Sir Nigel as he became, and … Continue reading →

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For The Love Of Dogs

Posted on July 6, 2020 by

Ignatius Plotsky was a poet in waiting, a painter in search of a canvas and writer of some obscurity whose insights were sited somewhere beyond the land of meaning. Following a few drinks at the bar, and spotting a young … Continue reading →

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Charles Nuggett

Posted on June 22, 2020 by

“Perfection,” as my wife might observe, “Lies just beyond the next alteration to the wardrobe or figure.” Her search for the perfect husband stopped with me some years ago, and that jaundiced look around her eyes suggests that she still … Continue reading →

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A Lockdown Social Life

Posted on June 15, 2020 by

 I could do with a larger social life. I could do with any social life at the moment, but now I have come up with a solution which has ultimately left me with little peace: let me explain. Each morning … Continue reading →

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Some Career Tips Which Might Help You More Than They Helped Me!

Posted on May 4, 2020 by

Owing to a natural lethargy this will be a short article, written in those small gaps I leave myself between rising from my bed, a mid-morning nap, luncheon and the afternoon snooze. Still, in the brief time available, let me … Continue reading →

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Another Kind Of Isolation

Posted on April 27, 2020 by

There I sat, pleasantly full after a late breakfast, watching the smoke from my cigarette move lazily up the window frame. In my other hand was a smallish glass of whisky, which I raised to sip before exhaling pleasantly, nodding … Continue reading →

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Adapting To Isolation

Posted on March 23, 2020 by

Currently as an ill-mannered virus makes its presence felt in every corner of the globe many of us are being asked to live on our own, or with a spouse we occasionally discuss breakfast cereals with and this calls for … Continue reading →

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A Dangerous Alternative

Posted on March 16, 2020 by

Sometime in the distant future, about five or six years from now, Vampires have taken over the world and humans, running free and in their natural habitat, are near being a relinquished memory, although the wealthiest vampires can still afford … Continue reading →

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A Case Of Mistaken Identity

Posted on March 9, 2020 by

I was surprised to receive a letter from Buckingham Palace addressed to Peter Ducks informing me Her Majesty the Queen was delighted to bestow the MBE on me and could I pop along to the Palace on 3rd March to … Continue reading →

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