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Marty

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  1. I'd be more likely to just go and gatecrash the party.
  2. Hey yourself, Bobster!
  3. Nah. Hearsay is more likely
  4. So I decided a few evenings ago to head off to the Wild Atlantic Coast and commune with the natural world... Trusty Nikon came with me again.
  5. Sowwie, Gary
  6. I think Gary may have been called SAM in his early years... (Stone Aged Man)
  7. Hey, Gary! Great to hear that you're feeling a bit better today.
  8. Takes me back, as well. Back to when I was a teenager, and a very good friend and myself would often sing it whenever we got caught out in the rain on one of our many days out together...
  9. I'm good, thanks! Just finished a funding application for a local LGBT+ support group I am involved with. How's yourself?
  10. Reminds me of a song from way back in my youth....
  11. Hello, young Albert
  12. Hey, young Albert!
  13. Hi, Page! How the divil are you, my man?
  14. For the day that's in it: And for those of you that are in the southern hemisphere:
  15. Hey, young Drew.
  16. Marty

    Chapter 3

    Many thank for your kind comments, Gary. I'm glad you found the conversation delightful. As I've said somewhere above, I really was worried that my attempts to display Jock's loquaciousness may have come across as unreal. Glad to have pulled you in, as you put it. Hope I don't disappoint as the story develops.
  17. Marty

    Chapter 1

    What a lovely little story. I must admit that some of the scenes in the middle, with apparently different characters (the doctor and nurse, and Rex and Czar) seemed a little out of place, but Devon's struggles as to where his life is leading, and Fabian eventually really appearing to listen to him, were totally realistic. And Sam's appearance at the end served to let Devon know that his work can eventually make a difference. If I had one even slightly negative comment it would only be that I could not understand why you gave this story a light-hearted tag. Thanks for sharing this with us all, @Puppilull!
  18. Marty

    Chapter 3

    Thanks, @Daddydavek. Yes, hopefully, there will be some fun head for Danny... (But there may also be some dark times as well, for all anybody knows.)
  19. Good night, gang! Desperately need my beauty sleep.
  20. Thanks, Bob! But I think I'm all caffeined out now. No bother at all, Xan. You can have them all if you want
  21. And it's perfectly okay to cry at times like that, dug! I thought he had simply misspelled the word toga...
  22. Marty

    Chapter 3

    It certainly is fascinating, @Talo Segura. And, although the eleven-plus exam certainly gave children from working class families an opportunity to get into the more academic Grammar Schools, the standard of teaching in the primary schools in working class areas tended to be lower, with many of the teachers in those schools tending to have a lower expectation of the ability of their charges to do well in the eleven-plus exam. It wasn't so much a fact that of only a few pupils from working class areas being bright enough; but more a case of the rest of society not believing they were, and so not encouraging them to excel.
  23. Marty

    Chapter 2

    My, but you're good, @Daddydavek! Wanna be my researcher for this story? Thanks for the comment.
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