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Christmas Shopping Guilt & Matchbox Stinky The Garbage Truck

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Well, I know we’re coming on for that time of year where Christmas Shopping Guilt really gets into gear. This is the time of year when Mummy and Daddy keep talking about planning to go Christmas shopping. They goad each other and challenge each other to come up with a date, each knowing full well [...]
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Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely What Thingy Whojit?

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I was glancing through Daddy’s plastic-vinyl record collection the other day while Mummy’s back was turned … and, having thrown a few choice examples on the floor, had a good old look at them. Daddy has a lot of records by this band called The Beatles, who were apparently quite good in the olden days [...]
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All The Leaves Are Brown… BUT WHY?

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Ok. So we went out for a big long walk in Hampers Heath today, Mummy, Daddy, Tippi and I, and we saw the most amazing and spectacular autumn leaves. I keep hearing Tall People saying what an amazing autumn it is, better than before, more yellow and red leaves and all that sort of thing. [...]

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A Christmas Catalogue of Disasters

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It’s very interesting, at this time of year, how many spurious catalogues, disguised as Christmas cards, come through your door, from companies who don’t usually bother. I mean we are all used to three pizza palace handouts, a menu from the local Indian, four taxi cab cards and twenty-five slightly different Lakeland catalogues slipping onto [...]
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A Sonnet By Any Other Name Would Be… A Haiku?

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Another gloomy morning today, not even my Diecast Chuggington Starter Set could lighten the heavy doldrums, draped across my consciousness, so I decided I would try to write a sonnet about my life to cheer myself up. I mean, if Will Shakespeare can do it, why not Thomas Myddle esquire? Now an English sonnet, as [...]
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The Future Is Bright

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If you are feeling down and blue at this time of year, with a touch of that SAD thing and the lack of light is getting to you or the cold winds are starting to whoosh up your parka, spare a thought for me, the Thursday hater. I get it all year round. There are [...]

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