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  1. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence “That story Angus prised out of her concerning that Landrace boar her grandfather gave her as a piglet when she was what? six or seven was priceless! And her mum’s reaction when her lurcher pup her dad ga ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:13pm - 2 comments

  2. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 48 Acquisitions Introductions and Interventions

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 48 Acquisitions Introductions and Interventions After interviewing three potential pharmacists Murray was beginning to lose hope. All three had been male and chauvinists, pigs to boot probably too, he’d said cynically to himself. H ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:20pm - 1 comment

  3. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 49 Needles Fell

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 49 Needles Fell You’ve only ever seen women like me power dress to do business. Then she waltzed in like a pretty little girl wearing that low cut flower print summer frock with a man who looked old enough to be her father and you ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:28pm - 3 comments

  4. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51 Coneys, Bees and Fish

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51 Coneys, Bees and Fish Continued on from GOM 50 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51⅒ So Just Where is Bearthwaite? is included before the footnotes For any as don’t know a coney is an ...

    - 2024/05/05 - 5:35am - 1 comment

  5. Galafriëlla

    Galafriëlla Arbret law was quirky and it gave all the right to whatever medical procedures they wanted, providing of course that they could pay for them. What the law did not do was allow any privacy, so medical staff could legally take money for informin ...

    - 2024/05/06 - 3:16pm - 1 comment

  6. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 52 Political Analysis

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 52 Political Analysis Continued on from GOM 51 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom “Christ, Lads, Dave missed his calling as a green grocer he should have been a diplomat. He’d have all the middle east conflicts s ...

    - 2024/05/14 - 7:13pm - 1 comment

  7. The Silent Ghost

    The Silent Ghost Trygg was an irritation to many of his teachers. He wouldn’t engage with any he didn’t wish to, and because of the injunction against the Ed Psychs they were not able to discover what his ‘problems’ and ‘special educational needs’ were. I ...

    - 2024/05/16 - 4:32pm - 2 comments

  8. A Successful Family

    A Successful Family The possession of a small number of cows, pigs, sheep and goats in addition to ducks, hens and geese was to the older family members the currency by which they measured true wealth. That the hundreds of doves that lived in the centurie ...

    - 2024/05/19 - 11:44pm - 3 comments

  9. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 53 Deep Secrets

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 53 Deep Secrets Continued on from GOM 52 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom “Hang on a moment before you do, Pete. Jeremy, whilst we’re on about food, or at any rate stuff that sometimes passes for food, answer a ...

    - 2024/05/22 - 10:13pm - 1 comment