Archive for November, 2011
Seagulls under threat – love your local gulls!
As a Nice Middle Class Lady, I sometimes find Brighton’s seagulls a right pain in the bum. They’re big and noisy and for some reason the buggers seem to spend most of their days yelling through my window. They wake me up too early and interrupt me when I’m reading in the garden. They nest [...]
Will the slow economic slide slip into an avalanche?
The Nurse slept in someone’s garden shed last night, on the outskirts of Barnsley. Wrapping herself in a few dusty grain sacks and making a rudimentary bed from piles of old newspaper, she had a decent night’s sleep for the first time since breaking free from the nuthouse. Even better, some silly bugger had left [...]
The Nurse heads for the bright lights of Brighton & Hove
Brighton is full of weird people. It’s the only place The Nurse has a chance of blending in, what with her filed pointy teeth and all. So that’s where she’s heading, threading her way carefully and steadily through coppices and woods, hugging the edges of fields so as not to be spotted. Cold, wet, bored [...]
The feckers locked The Nurse up and scarpered. But she’s back
The Nurse is most dis-chuffed at being abandoned. Fair enough, cuts are cuts. The mental hospital-cum-prison she’s lived in for the past two decades was shut down months ago for lack of funding. But there was no need to leave her here, rotting in this deep, dark, smelly, damp basement. Bastards. It took her weeks [...]
