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    Skiing in Greece, extract from Love's Labours
    Simon Truckle
    • Mar 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    Skiing in Greece, extract from Love's Labours

    Hania was a good place for Scott’s first introduction to skiing, having just four slopes ranging from not-very-steep to something you’d...
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    As dry as Stephen Fry
    Simon Truckle
    • May 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    As dry as Stephen Fry

    Scott had the sort of face you would love to play at poker. It was not hard to read his expression at the best of times and right now he...
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    Meet Mildred
    Simon Truckle
    • May 13, 2019
    • 4 min

    Meet Mildred

    He undid the rope and pulled her gently in the direction of the straw, only to discover Mildred had other ideas. She had decided that...
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    Simon Truckle
    • May 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    Catch, how many?

    Mr Heller looked down into the wriggling mass of fish at the bottom of the boat. It looked like a reasonable haul and one that would...
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    Foot Spa Anyone?
    Simon Truckle
    • Apr 24, 2019
    • 4 min

    Foot Spa Anyone?

    They were sitting at their usual table, the one right on the beach, and had been chatting to Moe about business. Oliver took a swig of...
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    Horoscopes
    Simon Truckle
    • Mar 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Horoscopes

    Further down the beach, Vanessa was having a slightly less cheery morning. She was sitting at a beachside café flicking through the paper...
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    What would you do for £200?
    Simon Truckle
    • Feb 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    What would you do for £200?

    It was an easy day for her: all she really had to do was, rather like Tennyson’s account of the Charge of the Light Brigade, count them...
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    Olive trees as old people
    Simon Truckle
    • Feb 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    Olive trees as old people

    There is something about olive trees that holds the attention. They look like people would if they lived for three hundred years and had...
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