Sonny\u2019s Hobby<\/b><\/p>\n
On page 204 of Tom Sawyer Detective<\/i> by Mark Twain Sonny found a crushed spider which had been stuck to the page since it was carelessly squashed on the 27th<\/sup> March 1913<\/p>\n Sonny carefully removed the spider and buried it in his insect cemetery<\/p>\n After the ceremony he noticed that all the burial plots had been taken<\/p>\n Because of this he never purchased another book and became a commercial airline pilot<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tales from the Signalbox<\/b><\/p>\n The signalbox at Bloxham was manned by two signalmen<\/p>\n Jenning Jennings and Hemming Hemmings<\/p>\n Jennings normally covered the day shift and Hemmings the night shift<\/p>\n Occasionally they swopped shifts so that they could sleep with each other\u2019s wives<\/p>\n On Sunday the box was not lit<\/p>\n Both men took advantage of this and were able to engage in threesomes with their partners and the occasional guest<\/p>\n As the years passed both men became very tired and opted for early retirement<\/p>\n A man called Smith took over the running of the box<\/p>\n He would cover both the shifts and also worked on Sundays as he was celibate<\/p>\n On the first day of his first holiday he was hit by a train and killed whilst collecting butterflies near the signalbox<\/p>\n Jennings and Hemmings were asked to come out of retirement which they both did against their better judgement as both had become blind<\/p>\n But nobody had noticed their affliction<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hibernian in Europe<\/b><\/p>\n Claudia sat on the ferry as it left Dover and from her vantage she could see the coast of France as it was a clear bright day<\/p>\n Her beloved Hibernian were playing in Lille that evening in a group game of the Champions League and in a few short hours she would be in the stadium to watch the match<\/p>\n But as she travelled towards France an odd thought kept nagging at her<\/p>\n What would she do after the game?<\/p>\n It was then she decided to walk to China and the Pacific beyond wearing only her Hibernian shirt<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonny\u2019s Hobby On page 204 of Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain Sonny found a crushed spider which had been stuck to the page since it was carelessly squashed on the 27th March 1913 Sonny carefully removed the spider and buried it in his insect cemetery After the ceremony he noticed that all the burial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}