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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Lost and Found

    Lost and Found “At your age how do you avoid the social services and the schools people?” “Mostly by hanging with adults, like you. If they see me with a grown up they go to bother someone else. That woman over there is one of them. That’s why I decided t ...

    - 2024/05/16 - 4:47pm - 4 comments

  4. 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

  5. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 38 Bearthwaite Invests Even More in Itself

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 38 Bearthwaite Invests Even More in Itself “Nay, Lad that was fine. There’s nothing to be ashamed of in telling of the lives of ordinary working blokes, and those lads that died fighting that fire and in the explosion deserve to be ...

    - 2024/05/22 - 9:41am - 2 comments

  6. 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 ...

    - 2024/05/30 - 10:17am - 4 comments

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