Have a Butcher’s at Sydnie Christmas’ Christmas Story; were they Jane Austen’s Butchers?


“The Christmas fair at Alton was held with uncommon spirit; the butchers and poulterers cried their wares till the very air seemed fat with beef and turkey.”

The Krays on The Hamble Peninsula


Eventually  the Doctors after scratching their heads and listening to his diverse description of his ailments, decided that despite his protests of illness, there was nothing actually wrong with him other than a likely case of malingering by an experienced old lag of a Private.