Midsummer Madness: A short story

It had been a lovely weekend. For once the weather was perfect and the children had amused themselves for hours, splashing in the shallow bay and exploring the rock pools at low tide.

Such a pity they had to leave and start the long drive home. Thinking ahead, and checking her watch, she pulled off the motorway and parked her four wheel drive at a convenience store. It was not the most salubrious of areas but she needed some milk, bread and eggs. The children would be hungry and tired and require feeding before bedtime.

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Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Fifteen minutes to curtain!”

Anne looked at herself in the mirror. What she saw was a thin, white (ghoulish is the word for it, she thought) face decorated with silvery lines and wisps that looked like leftover Halloween decorations (which is what they are, she observed). Her hair stood out in blue spikes around her (terminally ill looking, she added) face. A long-legged spider was poised on the tuft overhanging her black-rimmed left eye, spots of red and white in the corner nearest her nose.

Her dresser was draping long swathes of spider-filled webs over her wings.

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Italy Vs Slovakia

What an awesome game, I wont tell you who won but it had all the ingredients of what a great game is all about, punching, kicking, headbutting, nail biting nerves and incredibly good soccer.

4 goals alone were scored in the last 4 minutes of the game.

A must watch game people, even if you don’t like soccer, this game had the lot   🙂

Next up New Zealand V Paraguay

I got everything ready, coffee, nibbles, warm blankets and three dogs on my lounge in case I want to kick something 🙂

The Cornish Farmer

Dennis Penberthy, an elderly Cornish farmer, received a letter from the Department for Work & Pensions, stating that they suspected he was not paying his employees enough and they would send an inspector to interview them.

On the appointed day, the inspector turned up. “Tell me about your staff,” he asked Penberthy.

“Well,” said Penberthy, “there’s the farm hand. I pay him £240 a week, and he has a free cottage.

Then there’s the housekeeper. She gets £190 a week, along with free board and lodging.

There’s also the half-wit. He works a 16 hour day, does 90% of the work, earns about £25 a week, along with a bottle of gin every week, and, occasionally, gets to sleep with my wife.”

“That’s who I want to talk to,” said the inspector, “the half-wit.”

“That’ll be me then,” said Penberthy.

The New Leader

This is the man our boys will soon be trusting their lives with, General David Petraeus, (Australians are soon to be led by the US Command)

Let’s hope he’s a real general and ends this war quickly, I never understood why the world’s greatest armies cannot defeat a rag tag Taliban 😦