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December 21, 2006
Christmas night on Bloggington Beach
The lights in the great council office that overlooks Bloggington Bay are slowly being extinguished in anticipation of the long Christmas holiday that lies ahead. Even the great cake filling factory that stands where Bloggington central library used to be is closing down its jam squeezers and cleaning down the cream clotting plant for the break. The reflections of a great city in the rolling tide where Queen Anne's fleet once stood are dimmed. The only light to be seen is of the shivering candle under the pier where Mr Grinsdyke lies curled up with Perkins the now redundant library cat.
"Purring Perkins" says the frost covered Grimsdyke with affection for his old friend. "You are the only one left who remembers what a library used to be"
To be continued......
Posted by Tim Coates at December 21, 2006 9:06 PM