After a good half hour or so, I'd seen nothing and heard very little and frustration was beginning to set in. I pressed on further up the hill and, on a whim really, decided to deviate from my normal route and soon found myself on a little used path with a steep drop to my …
Author: Aintright
I'm just a keen, amateur artist, writer and photographer living in a small village in Lancashire with an urge to write silly stories and share them.
Gravity and Tits
After a good half hour or so, I'd seen nothing and heard very little and frustration was beginning to set in. I pressed on further up the hill and, on a whim really, decided to deviate from my normal route and soon found myself on a little used path with a steep drop to my …
The Other Repair Shop – Episode 1 : Albert’s Piano
It was an especially quiet morning in The Other Repair Shop, even for a Sunday. 'Paraphenalia And General Tat' expert, Keith, was in the corner arguing with a member of the public who had brought in her late uncle's bowling ball for 'repair'. Keith had given it a good going over and in so doing, …
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Were you even there Hartley Hare?
Roughly three years ago, I had the strangest wildlife encounter I've had thus far. I say 'roughly' because I'm not sure exactly when this happened but I do know it was one of my very first outings with what was at the time a new, wide-angle lens. Having conducted a thorough search of my previous …
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My Last Bog Roll
I've only got one bog roll, What am I to do? What will happen when it's gone, And I need a number two? I've now got half a bog roll, And I'm sat upon the loo, Should use a single sheet, Or tempt fate by using two? I've now just got the one sheet left, …
A Big Mistake
A big mistake was made today, When we followed a liar's word, Pulled up the gang-plank and sailed away, From truth we never even heard. A big mistake was made today, And Europe shakes its head, While it watches us turn our backs, On the legacy of all those dead. A big mistake …
I Saw a Bee Yesterday
I saw a bee yesterday, And he asked me if I knew, Where all the flowers had gone, As there were none where they once grew, I turned to him and said, "I fear, There are no more flowers here, We sprayed them all with Paraquat, So we could build a parking lot." I …
Online Dating Update – Day 2
No, no, no and no. I'm not going down this road again. Even after just twenty-four hours I can tell it's going to be as bad for my mental health as it was last time. The only fun to be had here is browsing through some of the introductory remarks folk write for themselves. Here's …
Hope and Despair
A chirpy whistling filled the air, The melody behind the wide-eyed stares, Of boys who sought adventure, And didn't have a care, Blissfully ignorant of the truth, They beamed with hope and with pride, Fresh-faced and flushed with youth, Pondering, wide-eyed, On the truth of the stories they'd been told, As they marched along the Menin …
Dating Profile – Work in Progress
Hi there. My name is Peter. I am in my mid-fifties but still very much alive. I am not new to online dating and, to be honest, I had given it up as a bad idea after previous expensive and fruitless attempts but, after having put a bit too much sherry in one of my …
Conversations with Alexa #1
Me: Alexa. Play Trivia Hero. Alexa: Okay. Playing Trivia Hero. Welcome to Trivia Hero. How many people are playing? Me: One. Alexa: Okay. Eleven. Me: Alexa. Stop. Are you deaf? Alexa: Me: Alexa: Are you deaf? Alexa: No. I'm not deaf. Me: Alexa. Okay. Sod off then.
Confessions #2 – Boxing Clever
Some time in 1995, I got a job as a School Librarian in a secondary school close to where I lived on the Wirral. I had been doing some supply teaching in this school when the vacancy came up so it was very much a case of being in the right place at the right …
Tequila Love
Oh tequila, Even though I saw you coming, I still blundered in, Desperate, I suppose, to scratch an itch, Still buried beneath my skin, And, yes, I should have known much better, Than to dream of sun where there'd be rain, But as my lips got wetter, I just drowned in you ... again, Oh tequila, …
Confessions of an idiot #1 – The Hot Dog
It was the summer of 1991 I think. I had graduated from Liverpool Polytechnic the previous August and was still living in Liverpool and signing on there whilst studying part-time towards a Masters Degree in Education. At the time, I was living in Toxteth with my girlfriend who, later, became my wife and who, much, …
