Sulcus had rested his case. Silence descended over the courtroom. The gentle buzz of an i-pod could be heard from the jury benches. AntCity sat forlorn in the dock. What was an i-pod doing in the 1970s? This was, after all, an episode of Crown Court.

Ant's barrister remained slumped on his bench. His assistant prodded him in the ribs causing the lawyer to sit upright. With a loud clatter, the now empty bottle of Croft Original fell to the floor, waking the Judge.

As he brushed the cobwebs from his face the Judge spoke in a loud voice. "Three sheets to the wind in my courthouse is unacceptable. Your client in the dock, that ridiculous three-d masher, has given us three bags full in his attempt to throw off the charge. I warn him to expect to be three-ed up before the end of the day and he will be lucky to escape the three-legged mare! I do not doubt, for one second, that the accused was fully aware of the origin of the phrase 'three strikes and you're out' and the fact that the game was invented by the English does not offer any hope of mitigation. Indeed, writing the word 'program' while using a cockney accent better than Dick Van Dyke's is a heinous crime which, under any Judge who had been awake during the trial, would have earned Mr City a three-spot in three shakes of a lamb's tail. The court is adjourned for sentencing until three o'clock."

With a loud bang the Judge slammed shut the Dictionary of Slang and went for his lunch.

Would like to thank you very much for your review of 'The Promise'. Agree with your observation - there's a whole story in there, unwritten. Thanks for the inspiration to develop it. I really appreciate.
Best wishes, Paige.

I would wrap a partridge in bacon, but pheasants are best done in red thai curry.

Unless of course you like to hang them until they turn green...

As to cats, my mother used to have 60. Until a puma ate three or four of them. The only thing he left was the tail.

So now she has 56 and 4 spare tails.

Andrew At the edge of the green, at the brink of the blue
All split asunder by lightening and thunder
Going for broke, take another toke
Never say nope, it must be the dope...

Somewhere way past midnight the galloping poet lunged beyond his reach and lost both stirrups

We took in a stray moggy a couple of weeks back. As a reward for our kindness of heart, it looks as if it’s about to drop a gaggle of moglettes somewhere around the house. I hope there’s half a dozen. I’ve got a recipe for half a dozen in my Thai cook book. If not, then it’ll have to be kebabs again. Sheesh! There’s a juniper tree in my garden, but I have an uncle in Kiev.

Thanks for taking the time to read and review my story, 'Hibakusha.' I am pleased that my writing appealed to you. Thank you for your very generous comments and I hope that your reference book did not reveal too many gaps in my rendition of the Japanese myth.


Tom

I had a gap of 18 days recently. Some time-outs, some returns, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Keep the faith! Miaow.

Kitties are luvly

Maybe give every kitty on the planet a rifle and get them to shoot all the people? Plenty of birdies to go around then.

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I rest my case then

You made me chuckle having had it large yourself.

The point about Mykonos is well made, but I think reflects the outdated attitudes of the crime under-boss tossing out his prejudices about these possible hideout locations.

Many thanks again.

Nuff respec'

Unfortunately, this sometimes happens. Check your opening is properly formatted and well-written enough to hook your reader. If this sounds like putting the cart before the horse, it is. Sorry. Otherwise all you can do is get on with something else while you wait. You'll learn patience, if nothing else. .

Not to worry - your scores were fine. I think the system sometimes marks you DOWN when you have good scores. Athene mentioned something about it ages ago. Apparently sometimes when you have bad scores, you can go UP!!! Ours not to reason why. I have one more loony review, but I don't know whether I'll be able to shake it off before the end of the month.
Ann

Oh no! I am really sorry if I'm in any way responsible for that. I thought I gave you perfectly good scores! Hopefully removing a loony review will push it back up. Plenty of time yet before the end of the month...

Good luck!
Claire

I'm really coming to the end of my tether, wrote to admin to ask if there was a glitch in the system, they say no. So why have my chapters still not received a second review, by my count it would mean that four people in a row have now removed it from their list. I've rewritten the synopsis, but still no joy. I may as well take it down and resubmit and lose the review I've already got. In the flatfield I do get bored

Glad you didn't have nightmares! I see that we're both back yo-yo-ing in the TT. You're back up to 10. I was at 9 yesterday, then after your good review I've dropped about 8 places. I really, truly do not understand the system. Do you? I've now removed one earlier mindless review, so we'll see what effect that has. I'll probably drop another 20 places . . .
Ann

thanks for giving information here george