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Unable to comply with the rabble’s hot-tempered demands for unreasonable things

such as cathedral juice and vicar shit, the heavily pummelled innocent was

dragged into the churchyard of St Lawrence and there left to his own devices

next to the grave of young Nelson Burt, whose own tragic tale is of particular

interest to the local historian

It is believed that within twenty minutes of this episode, a further attack was

witnessed by one Slow Dempsey of Woodside Farm, who alleged that he saw the

aforementioned Bridgedale scuttle a full four hundred feet along the Wervin

Turnpike to deliver a perfect haymaker onto a stray colt

This afternoon I visited Daniel Gwatkin in the confined place which he will

probably never leave. I was offered redbush tea and a fig roll. The pleasantry

gave hope for lengthy discourse but cheer was swiftly dismissed as the pitiful

subject proceeded to gaze out of a large window for what seemed like an age,

before turning around to fix me with pitch black sockets, which simply said:

«Help me». Then came the song:

Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?

Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?

Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?

I write to people. They don’t get back to me. I write a second time.

They don’t reply

(Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?)

To ease the loneliness and pass the time, I pace the room, inventing bands

(Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?)

Experimental trio from Borehamwood: Hall, Stairs and Landing; they’re really

good

(Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?)

Scott Verplank did not get back to me. Newcombe and Roche, still no response

(Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?)

Congolesi Unsworth: Glaswegian loons; the singer’s granddad writes all the tunes

(Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?)

Jodie Mudd, Jodie Mudd, Jodie Mudd. Jodie Mudd, Jodie Mudd, Jodie Mudd

(Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?)

Uh-oh, Chongo! It’s Danger Island!

(Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?)

Jodie Mudd, Jodie Mudd, Jodie Mudd

Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?

Cresta!

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