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The View Through The Clouds
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Short stories about the people living in, working in or passing through the town down there below. It's 1987...
Recent Posts
Elsie has bought a wok
Elsie is looking for bamboo shoots and Rice Wine in Kwik Save. She bought a wok and all the tools from Dodgy John on the market yesterday. Last night she found a recipe on Ceefax but the ingredients are a bit exotic. She’s asked Lillian in th...
Thursday
It’s been a day of drama and excitement in town. Mike and his occasional workmate Ed are doing some work up at the castle, expanding the shop and ticket office. Today they started taking down an old partition that had been put up in the seven...
The Liar
It’s Malcolm Bean’s 18th birthday. Or so he says. Malcolm Bean is a liar. He can’t help himself. If such a civic post existed Malcolm would be the ‘Town Liar’ and would visit other towns up and down the country to compet...
Wet Wednesday
It’s Wednesday, 2 and a half weeks into the school summer holiday and teacher Phil is sitting in his study watching the rain pour from his broken gutter, hit the roof of the bay window below and bounce back onto the brick wall. Then he looks at...
Zap Magazine
Aaron and Tom are excited. It’s the launch of Zap magazine - ’the mag for all ZX Spectrum User’. It is, as the tagline says, a magazine dedicated to people with a ZX Spectrum and Spectrum +. It has news and reviews and games that t...
Thursday Night Is Film Night
It’s the third Thursday in the month, which means it’s Film Society night upstairs in The Starline Club. The town did have a proper cinema once - The Clifton which was built in 1928 and first called The Majestic, then The Regal before bec...

