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There’s a new sick line, for calling in sick apparently! By Alfred Muggins, Call Centre Agent!
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6/2/23 There’s a new sick line, for calling in sick apparently. We had a buzz meeting, and the team manager mentioned it. Apparently if we call in...
A Bad Deal! By Alfred Muggins
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23/1/23 Will there be anything of me left? Sign up for a proper job! Sell your time for an amount which really isn’t that much higher than the...
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Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross! By Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
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Part 3 However someone up there must be winking at them, because about half way back to Daventry outside a pub, in the gathering darkness of a pub...
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Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross! By Alfred N.Muggins Part 2
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Part 2 Daventry had been preparing for the evening’s Big Game, but the Mugginses had already seen Daventry, and had a lovely meal there, in a pub. It...
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Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross! By Alfred N.Muggins Part 1
10/7/21 (30/5/23, 18/6/23) Part 1 Rolling countryside, very pleasant from Daventry into Banbury and Northern Oxfordshire! It started raining of...
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I thought the ghost of Mrs
Posted on Mon, 22 Aug 2022
I thought the ghost of Mrs Thatcher was dead, and that we might be safe from callous economic negligence! Sadly it seems she is back with a vengeance to make us all work harder, and she even has influence on the Labour Party? Great satire,...
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I enjoyed this, as always. I
Posted on Wed, 27 Jul 2022
I enjoyed this, as always. I read it before I went away on holiday last week. You have managed to keep very up to date with the parliamentary and cabinet pantomimes which are currently occurring, and manage to make Brexit sound positively...
Read full commentPosted in Boris and the Curious Case of Brexit
I enjoyed this. You have
Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022
I enjoyed this. You have created a meaningful story of life passing by in stages, and reaching its natural conclusion! It is easy to read, which is good, leading the reader to the final twist. It has a magical quality, which makes it very...
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An exciting read! Gripping!
Posted on Thu, 28 Jul 2022
An exciting read! Gripping!
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Rediscovering something we
Posted on Thu, 28 Jul 2022
Rediscovering something we wrote or drew in the past can give great pleasure and satisfaction. We should never throw them away!
Read full commentPosted in from 1978 a old school book
i have enjoyed reading this
Posted on Fri, 08 Jul 2022
i have enjoyed reading this one Marandina. It definitely kept me guessing until the end, and the ending did have some good twists. I feel maybe that a bit more explanation or description of how the kids were kept and looked after during their '...
Read full commentPosted in The Miracle of Maldon (Part Three of Three)
A very thought provoking and
Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2022
A very thought provoking and quite sad poem. You deal with some very real issues here. Capitalism is like a machine that does not stop, for good or ill. We need to control it and its effects ideally. Let us hope we do not all become surplus to...
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I do like the way you updated
Posted on Thu, 23 Jun 2022
I do like the way you updated the story of the horses into a future where the artificial intelligences are proving far more reliable and useful than the real humans, who have managed to score a massive own goal by creating a future in which they...
Read full commentPosted in The Horses of Wooldale Road (Part 2 of 3)
I like what you have done
Posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2022
I like what you have done with the imagery of 'Wizard Of Oz'. It's a great story/fantasy, but like all the best such tales it can be used to symbolise so much of the problems, hopes and dreams of our real world! I like the way you have updated...
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I like the way you have
Posted on Sat, 04 Jun 2022
I like the way you have contrasted the Queen's 70 years of kind, understanding and supportive service to Putin's despotic carelessness for human life. At this moment in history that is a very important and stark contrast, between humane service...
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