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  1. Robert Hugill
    I think Heyward had some rather pedestrian wrong with him, Urinary Tract is good.
  2. Robert Hugill
    We had another email from Francis Heyward’s PA, Archie. Would we be free for dinner at the 122 Club; a private dinner with just the four of us. “Four?” Dan cocked an eyebrow at me. I shrugged, “Tim, perhaps. We sort of know, officially, that they see each other.” Dan frowned, “I know, but seeing a guy for sex and having him join you for dinner with two of your employees. That’s a different kettle of fish.” I smiled, “Perhaps they want to announce their engagement, or marriage
  3. Robert Hugill
    Don't worry, Brian & Gordon will be back
  4. Robert Hugill
    These are the sort of thing I was thinking off. Putting links incase the images are a bit too much. https://gregghomme.com/int_en/shapes/thongs https://gregghomme.com/int_en/strip-tease/all Enjoy!
  5. Robert Hugill
    Your comment about the guys from Ares modelling isn't far off, but wait and see!!!
  6. Robert Hugill
    Maurice Ventura of Iverson's (or Morrie as he insisted on being called) was a big bear of a man, with a laugh to match. But he had an acute business sense, and he had taken Ralph through a whole impressive business model. One in the process of being implemented rather than something scarily airy fairy. Ralph and Morrie were meeting in the firm's new offices in the Business Park. Neat, unobtrusive and slickly modern, the atmosphere of the reception area, however, was enlivened or disturbed, depen
  7. Robert Hugill
    To say that Ercole’s reappearance in our lives, however brief it was, was a surprise was something of an understatement. We’d enjoyed his visit to London and there had been vague talk of meeting up again, but I wasn’t going to hold my breath. An invitation to the Villa Torronia without some sort of artistic impetus seemed unlikely and his suggestion of us visiting him in Milan had not developed into anything concrete. And let’s face it, Dan and I just didn’t move in the same circles as Paol
  8. Robert Hugill
    Ha ha. Thanks, and looking forward to it!
  9. Robert Hugill
    Thanks, and #3 is great and who knows what we might produce for Christmas!
  10. Robert Hugill
    You may be pleased to know, that Therese will get her own voice in the narrative, in a few BRIEF sections, to help us know exactly what she is thinking.
  11. Robert Hugill
    "What on earth did you feed Jane and Alisa on Sunday?" Ralph usually met his ex-wife, Therese once a week for lunch. Nowhere fancy, just a coffee bar in town that did a nice line in sandwiches. It was in a rather grim 1960s building near the bus station, the local council kept talking about re-developing the site but so far, the building, and the businesses survived. The café had plenty of space at the back, so there was usually a table. You had to live with plastic tables and chairs, as we
  12. Robert Hugill
    Thanks!
  13. Robert Hugill
    Thanks, have clarified. Realised that the previous mention of him was a long way back!
  14. Robert Hugill
    Vaughan's brother, died of meningitis aged 7 "Before marriage, Mother had worked as a secretary for a solicitor. I am pretty sure if she had wanted it, she could have had a fine legal career. But family came first, and life was devoted to me and my brother, Titus. His death from meningitis at the age of seven led to her return to work. Father managing to use as a lever the genuine financial necessity arising from the desire to move out of a house that reminded them both of Titus. So, she’d gone back to managing solicitors, as Father was wont to dryly put it. "
  15. Robert Hugill
    Mother was delighted with the idea of an expedition to Norton Priory. Somehow the trip expanded, and she booked us a hotel room with a late dinner (her treat, she insisted) on the Friday night. That way we would have time to go exploring on the Saturday, searching for places she remembered, such as her friend, Marjorie’s house. Dan and I would drive up and collect her, then head across country. Mother’s choice of hotel was a pub that had been reincarnated as a restaurant with rooms. From th
  16. Robert Hugill
    "So, what's in the tuckbox today?" Ralph smiled at Beth as she unwrapped her lunch. Despite the fact that he lived over the shop, so to speak, Ralph tried to take his lunch with his co-workers. Their workspace was a large open-plan room with desks for Ralph and his co-workers, Beth and Ivor, plus a small relaxation area at the front. There was a tiny kitchen at the back with a table just big enough for the three of them. Ivor, who did most of the actual website building and maintenance, was
  17. Robert Hugill
    Getting the hang finished was an unutterable pain. What had seemed like a lovely idea, swanning around buying pictures, turned tiresome very quickly and the logistics… I spent far too much time on the phone to Cecily, The Manor’s house manager, or talking to her at The Manor and I got heartily sick of the drive down there. As things got closer, anxiety gnawed away too. I was too close to everything. I no longer knew whether it all made any sense. What I’d like to have done is start again.
  18. Robert Hugill
    Ralph has a successful web-design firm, lovely twin daughters and an ex-wife with whom he is on reasonable terms, though his parents persist in regarding him as a disappointment, disliking his choice of career and general lack of ambition. But, in the wake of his divorce, he experiences a return of feelings and ideas that he hasn’t had since his teenage years when an affair with another boy at school left an indelible mark. And now, he has to decide, does he want to be that person who hides, lashes out at any suggestion he might be gay, or does he want to break free.
  19. Robert Hugill
    "Daddy, Daddy, it's this way." "Eloise's house is over there." Two eager voices, two hands tugging at him, brought Ralph back from his reverie. He'd seen a ghost from his past, just when he hadn't expected it, but then did you ever imagine you’d see ghosts. But there wasn't time for that now. The twins were right; their friend Eloise live just across from the Cathedral and that was where they were going. It was Saturday, so the twins were staying with him, but they were dressed accordi
  20. Robert Hugill
    The party was on – finally. Francis Heyward was having a celebratory Lawrence of Arabia themed bash. Quite what it was celebrating wasn’t clear and more than one person at The Manor, including Dudley who would be helping to organise it, suggested that it was the last big bash before Francis Heyward scaled things back. It was funny how the vague rumours, and more, that I had been picking up seemed to have percolated through to Francis Heyward’s staff. Dan was clear that he was not going to w
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    Epilogue

    Robert Hugill commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Epilogue

    What a nice thought, will have a ponder.
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    Epilogue

    Robert Hugill commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Epilogue

    New story starting on Wednesday!
  23. Robert Hugill
    “I hope it works.” Thomas, Nico and Nico’s wife all laughed; Keith had been saying variations of the same thing for the last thirty minutes. Alison’s school was having a small exhibition devoted to Michael Atkinson. Charlotte, Therese, and the school’s archivist had all come up with a remarkable amount of material about the artist and about the other artworks in the school. The focus of the event was as much about Alison’s project to continue the momentum and restore more art as it was
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    Francis Heyward was going to be back in town for a few days, before travelling again; did the man never stop in one place? He’d be staying at the 122 Club and suggested he and I meet to catch up and talk about the progress of the hang at The Manor which had been taking up both time and mental energy. I was ushered into the same meeting room as before, or one almost identical, and again we sat in the window, drank excellent tea, and held our meeting, going over what had been happening, the proble
  25. Robert Hugill
    Feeling a bit guilty, Keith phoned Gerard about Fags for Football. If he was going to apologise for being such a flake, then it ought to be a phone call, not just a message. It took a few goes, but he finally caught the guy. Gerard was friendly and gracious as Keith apologised for his patchy record, explaining about the Atkinson filling in time and coming clean that he didn’t feel up to the commitment needed for a regular team and there was the idea that he and Thomas might try something that th
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