Christopher Robin and the Station of Fear

Alice was waiting on the station platform.
“Flippin’ heck, CR, you look whiter than a nun’s knickers.”
“You are not going to believe it.
“Oh yea,” said Alice, “what happened?”
“After I left you at Buckingham Palace, oh and by the way, what is it with you and those guardsmen, you were grinning like a Cheshire cat when the sergeant offered to darn your socks for you.”
“You know me,” sniggered Alice, “I like a man in uniform”.
“And out of uniform too, from what I have heard”.
“Watch it. Just because ….Hehhhey, CR, who is that?” Continue reading “Christopher Robin and the Station of Fear”

Next Creative Writing Competition

Right then, moving on rapidly before Sir Walter rises from his grave to haunt me in perpetuity for the alleged theft of his intellectual property from which Boa has exonerated me.

My thanks to Claire for setting the competition, to Boa for judging and to all of you who were so generous in your comments on my entry. I live in hope that CO will read it one of these days and then not be completely scathing about it. And I still hope that one day she will tell us  the tale that she knows I want to read. Continue reading “Next Creative Writing Competition”

Your Freedom: The Government’s invitation to the public to comment.

http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/restoring-civil-liberties/increasing-infringement-by-the-police-of-photographers-rights-to-take-photographs-in-public-places

will take you to an item I have posted on “Your Freedom”. Your support would be welcomed. By the way, the link setup doesn’t seem to be working properly, or I haven’t sussed it out, maybe, so Please copy and paste in your web browser to reach it, until someone educates me…

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Ben Franklin.