Category Archives: humour

Temptation And The Ordered Life

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

Robin understood everything he needed to know about the state of marriage, or so he thought: for him, being a contented man was a matter of policy. He taught as a lecturer at a minor university and expressed his passion … Continue reading →

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A Post-Breakfast Conversation

Posted on March 19, 2018 by

My normal café is closed for essential repairs which I presume means re-vamping their recipe for sausage sandwiches, currently scoring poorly on the flavour scale, and I have been forced slightly “off-piste” in search of emergency catering. I come across … Continue reading →

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Making Things Personal!

Posted on March 5, 2018 by

“I could do with a larger social life. I could do with any social life,” I used to say to myself until I came up with a solution which ultimately left me with little peace: let me explain. Every morning … Continue reading →

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Somewhere In Transfusion Alley

Posted on February 26, 2018 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 almost forgotten memories, although the wealthiest vampires can still afford to purchase … Continue reading →

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My Wedding Day!

Posted on January 22, 2018 by

The clock beside me said 6:23am: digital and with unmoving hands, time  seemed to be standing still it seemed to me. At 2pm today I would become a married man and what was rising through me was raw unprocessed panic: … Continue reading →

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Reflective Gibberish

Posted on January 8, 2018 by

Sitting at the company’s New Year’s Eve party, I raise my glass and murmur the words “Absent friends” because, let’s face it, the people here are not my friends! Not that I would say that out loud, because those in … Continue reading →

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Discovering Martin Glubervitch

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

Sludging into that unfocussed area which was his middle fifties, sometime after the innocent optimism of youth had been expended on one or two false starts, career-wise, and with a failed marriage under his belt, Martin Glubervitch was struck by … Continue reading →

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