Marks & Spencer, Brenda and the money lender

DRESSED LIKE A QUEEN, not like a teen, bargain basement a flop, rise to the top. Marks and Spencer is the place, for clothing of fine taste, reliable and chic, go take a peek. Stroll around town, much more than a pound, cash in abundant, never reluctant. My style is supreme, not part of a […]

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Michael Fish: reassurance and the storm of 1987

THE gentleman called Fish, not sure if he’d cook a good dish. Weather is his game, trustworthy was his name. The year was eighty-seven, weather not from heaven. A forecast of interest, reassurance not to stress. She’d heard the hurricane was in a hurry, but Fishy said “don’t worry!“ Technically he was right, a hurricane […]

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