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The Agency Workers (8) – featuring Jack Potato.

June 25, 2010

The baked potato was returned stone cold. Our manager Scott had scolded Nigel the chef, the fuming Nigel had thrown …

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Pageant of the old J.M.C.

September 9, 2009

Denizens of digital modernity may erroneously assume that their culture is now endlessly, aimlessly recording itself. The historians of the …

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Tram Disaster/ Employee of the Month.

May 30, 2009

I had a horrible dream in which I attended the opening of Edinburgh’s new tram system. Prince Charles turned up …

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Et in Arcadia Ego.

August 30, 2008

I had a very unpleasant morning at work. One of the dinner-ladies had turned up in a distraught state, and …

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