Category: Toms
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My Inner Woman
It was bound to happen. It was written long ago, on papyrus in an ancient land, that it would happen. It was foretold. It has happened. It happened yesterday. My Inner Woman has revealed herself. Having a whole host of personalities dwelling within me it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that one of them…
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I’m not Superman
I may be faster than a speeding bullet when I go shopping. I may be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound when I’m fast asleep in bed. I can not see through lead. I also can’t see through wood, paper, metal, muddy water, leaves, and windows that haven’t been cleaned, but I…
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No smile but plenty of laughs
My new driving licence arrived this morning. Aquatom1968 now looks like a criminal mastermind of the underworld. Luckily, I only have to carry the thing around with me for the next ten years, when it can be cut in two, as my old, and very faithful, previous one was last weekend. And extremely unceremoniously it…
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Mr Klempsey’s Sweet Shop and Tobacconist
*Shudders* Mr Klempsey (not his real name) was probably the most frightening man you would ever want to meet. He would peer at whoever entered his tiny shop through a little space in the counter. He would serve every customer through this space if he could, but the sweet shop was on one side and…
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Ode to an aching knee
Oh, knee, I ask thee why must thou throb Whence I stand and walk or hobble ’Tis fine whilst seated and after several steps So why must thou caust me trouble? A heat you bring within my leg A warmth that’s not so fair Whence I happen perchance to walk A steppe or two from…
The Mansionic Perspective 