Of all the bars in all the world I go to one in particular. The reason is simple – the world is too far away – this bar is nearby. A local local we call Grandad’s. See bar staff are like grandparents – they get lonely and it’s your duty visit them now and again. [...]
Joey the Yolk is a dealer. His father, Joe the Egg, was a dealer before him. Joey, like all dealers, lives off misery. In his case, numerous hens are enslaved in his garden in forced ovulation. He plies his trade in the village pubs. The price for a 12-spot is a pint. I was clean [...]
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She shifted in her seat, better to view the label on the proffered bottle. An extremely attractive immaculately dressed young woman, she had the eye of every man present. They watched as she studied more closely, then accepted a sampling. The glass twirled, held up to the light. A brush beneath the nose. A sip. [...]
They weren’t living together long when Pat’s wife-to-be began dropping the phrase, pitter-patter of little feet, into conversation. So off to Joe-the-dog he and I went and bought a 14-week-old puppy. A beautiful Golden Retriever bitch. A name. She would need a name. We took to the high stool, leaving the puppy to explore the [...]
The holiday makers arrived home from not-Galway at the weekend. I made sure their cat and Gold Finger, the fish, looked well fed and content (using drugs and a stomach pump). They knew their bath was to be used for a project at some point, but they didn’t know it already had been used. In [...]
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