HERE TODAY - The best bits.
"he was small, pale and insignificant. His narrow face wore a sly, perpetual smirk, giving the observer the impression that he was the possessor of dark and sinister secrets that were a source of constant amusement."
"A dry chuckle escaped from his yellow teeth."
" He took a small bag and immense torch from the car"
" My torch! It will be annoying if it doesn't work. Ah, a little shake does wonders"
"candles are the answer"
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I must say that the most unfortunate thing that has happened over the last twenty years or so has been the introduction of electric lights for workmen. I mean the type that the men used to set up around freshly dug holes in the ground. They used to be powered by paraffin lamps and they were a might better than candles. The smell of paraffin can catapult me back 30 years! Back to nights in garden sheds gathered around the flickering paraffin lamp telling the scariest ghost stories going in the knowledge that you still had to climb over two garden walls and cross five dark gardens to get home!
Oh the gooood old days
Ah the good old days. Dodging the nags and reading well thumbed nude books in a confined space.
Aye a flashing battery powered lamp is of no use to man nor beast.
The rites of passage of youth should not be sacrificed for the sake of road safety.
The extracts from "Here today" by a certain Jim Fisher. Aparantly the story was heavily edited by R Chetwynd-Hayes.
The line "Candles are the answer" was apparantly originally penned as "Would you like a carrot"
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