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Five adverts this week
The number under each advert is how you reply to it, and how you send it to whoever it reminds you of. Some are real, some aren't, you decide.
Second date happened. He ordered the halloumi, in front of me, cheerfully. I have spent four days deciding whether that is a character flaw or whether I have simply hardened into somebody impossible.
Ref. 0112
Forty-four. I own a leaf blower, a strimmer and a pressure washer, and the only sound any of them has made in two years is me telling a neighbour what they can do.
Ref. 0114
I have a chest freezer in the garage containing one full year of soup I made in a single confident weekend. Would like company before I reach the batch I no longer trust.
Ref. 0115
Thirty-six. I have an allotment I visit chiefly to stand in, and a water butt I check with the gravity of a man reading a will. Room on the bench for one.
Ref. 0109
The library in Thame knows my reservations before I speak and I have started arriving with a prepared opening line for the counter. Would like to practise it on someone who is not employed to be patient with me.
Ref. 0110
Place your own advert, real submissions run alongside the regulars.