Tag: Christmas
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Gift Wrapped
“Gif’ wrapped?” She is in her fifties, piped into the store’s idea of what a woman should wear in her thirties if she were a size 12. She is not a size twelve. Plastic smile. “Would’y’like to include-a-message?” “Sorry?” “Message. Would’y’l….” “Oh! Sorry. No thanks.” The boxed perfume and cologne upon which […]
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There’s a reindeer down the chip shop thinks he’s Rudolph….
Christmas means different things to different people: to nurses and doctors, for example, it is a busy period for hospital admissions. Over-indulgence has its price. Life in the transport business can become particularly fraught. People rushing to and from shops and parties, visiting relatives, or, bizarrely, delivering presents towing a guy in a red suit…. […]
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