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CAROL BROWNE: Place Setting

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The farmer saw his daughter halfway down a hole in the ground. “What are you doing, child?”

“The badgers are having a tea party, Dad. They’re expecting me.”

He tutted at this childish fantasy, dragged his daughter away.

Below, father badger consulted his watch. “Think we’d better start without her.”

Carol Browne first appeared on the planet in 1954. She regards Crewe, Cheshire, as her home town and graduated from Nottingham University in 1976 with an honours degree in English Language and Literature. She is a contracted author at Burning Willow Press.

Frank and Ronald

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“Hur hur, Frankie Boy! How many fingers am I holding up?”

Frank groaned. “Ronald, you’re a tortoise. You don’t have any fingers.”

“C’mon, Frankie Boy! Play along!”

“Fine. Zero.”

“Ya got me!” grinned Ronald.

The aquarium was blissfully peaceful for about ten seconds. Then:

“Hey, Frankie Boy, pull my finger!”