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‘Then I got taken hostage in Iran,’ said the lady sitting next to me in the hairdresser’s as she was…
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‘Notice from your vets’ said the email subject. I clicked and there was a letter telling me that my vet…
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With only five to ten more years to work out how to log in to my pension plan I need…
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By the time I got through to someone at British Gas to complain about them holding £491 of my money…
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‘Excuse me, I’m looking for something to catch a mouse that won’t cause it any distress,’ said the young chap…
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‘I’d like my money back please’ was what I was waiting to tell British Gas, if they ever stopped the…
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A cleverly worded email has arrived from British Gas to explain why, despite the Prime Minister’s announcement, my gas and…
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The support group groupies have issued another ban. They have attempted to slap an exclusion order on another long-standing member,…
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The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road coming towards me head-on. It was a winding country lane…
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A lot has been going wrong lately in the support group I’ve been attending for more than 20 years. I…
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The ladies in the bank now wear badges telling you to Be Kind and not do anything that might upset…
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My favourite vet came to see Darcy and immediately put his finger on the problem. Dusk was falling when he…
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‘If you think about it, Frankie Dettori is to blame,’ said the builder boyfriend, because when things are really bad…
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From the veranda of a small Irish farmhouse, I looked out over the sun-drenched West Cork peninsula. All I could…
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When my black passport arrived in the post, I decided to take a trip. I’m not a good flier, so…
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Everything is well and truly burned to a crisp, and we are piling through hundreds of pounds of hay a…
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‘That will be £7.50 please,’ said the girl in the bakery to the cyclist in black Lycra after he put…
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My phone buzzed and rang while I was doing the horses until I thought, fine, I’ll call the Defence Secretary…
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As he grouted the last tile, five years after the bathroom was finished, I knew the game was up. ‘I…
