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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).
111 of my comments have received 131 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.
Well personally I'm very fond of films and books which don't tie it all up in a neat bow at the end. Leaving the readers to make their own deductions - they'd have to be better at it than Tubby Milton can manage.
Like Turlough, you have the gift of bringing the mundane to life and making it fascinating, Harry. And funny. And sad. And, in this case, just a bit spooky too. Good writers can make great stories out of apparently very little material, and...
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...
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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
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.
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Well personally I'm very fond
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
Well personally I'm very fond of films and books which don't tie it all up in a neat bow at the end. Leaving the readers to make their own deductions - they'd have to be better at it than Tubby Milton can manage.
I loved this...
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 6
Like Turlough, you have the
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
Like Turlough, you have the gift of bringing the mundane to life and making it fascinating, Harry. And funny. And sad. And, in this case, just a bit spooky too. Good writers can make great stories out of apparently very little material, and...
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
Hi Jane
Posted on Sun, 22 Feb 2026
Hi Jane
This is very intriguing ! Looking forward to what is going to happen to them next.
I think there are a few places where it says 'sight' when it should say 'site' ? As in 'go around the edge of the sight only'. I think...
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