Finished Folds (41—60)
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2is a frustrating, sticky business which will bring tears to your eyes; but persevere, chop finely and you'll get a base for a decent ragu (just add finely grated carrot & celery).
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3ecstasy pill with Mary-L and D-D he'd be really quite miffed, and probably wouldn't invite us round for dinner next week. Dazza and I knew what this meant.
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4"I'm too strong to need help with my problems". He was nothing if not an honest man. But his self-awareness was obviously misplaced. His sister's factory accident last year had
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2place on the ground, crossed over each other, ready for the Morris-dancing. Celtic movement was a new addition to the Street Therapy sessions, but it worked. Even Big Bad Dan liked
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2and besides, he was a sadistic old man and seeing the grandchildren walking from the schoolyard with a few bruises and a bleeding lip or two gave him a quiet thrill. The kids had
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3a decent takeaway. The ship's cook was ill, and he wasn't about to risk e-coli again. It had taken weeks to recover after the episode with the goan fish curry,
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6pygmy hippos in their leafy, muddy enclosure. Yes, they were only small versions of their breed, but they were happy in their mini-existence, however cloistered it may be.
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7"It's only blueberries!" I shouted after Emerald as she marched away. "Just some stupid blueberries, for God's sake". But to Emerald, it wasn't that simple.
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6Jemima was filled with a dark and familiar sense of foreboding as she read the message scratched into the gnarly tree bark. This could mean only one thing: the otters were back.
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2the camels, but if this new development was anything to go by, the camels would be on Santa's side too. Bunny was clinging to the past, but in truth he didn't know why. If only
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2ears." They instinctively reached up and true enough, their ears had been adorned with the much-reviled fluffy footwear. One of them started to tear at his left lobe, determined
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1but it was worth it as the supermarket till often read his barcode as 'Baked Beans (400g)' which tended to be on special. He loved that he could get a discount on himself, but
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4how she continuously stole famous lines from movies, and refused to communicate properly. She was unable to construct a single sentence without plagiarising the scripts of
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3registering her 'handle' as a trademark and employing an agent to manage her phonecalls. She received phonecalls maybe once or twice a month, but no matter. The important thing was
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5She turned to the open skies and gazed meaningfully up, hoping she looked profoundly philosophical and at the same time achingly beautiful. The carefully crafted scene, however
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6an otter - a fine, noble sea otter, to make things right. The only thing Mr Otter would try to crack open would be a juicy oyster on his furry little chest. The fox would never
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1dung which I was forced to keep on the pillow next to my head, even during those humid, choking summer months. One July, during a heatwave, the smell got so bad that I had to
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3looked up for a second. He continued scratching pretend notes and scrutinising the scene in what he hoped was a manner befitting of an experienced professional, but the stranger
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5'Come ye, come ye, and bless us with your vegetable presence!' he boomed in his tiny rabbit voice. 'For our warren cannot flourish if the carrots will not nourish!' A great shadow
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4then neither did the man we all called 'Nearest Bill'. Still, with Will at the grill and Bill at the mill, we added dill to the krill and ate our fill. A pill, and all was still.