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Christmas in Nether Sodbury In Tesco, Christmas starts some time in September and seems to go on forever. The Christmas decorations start going up in Nether Sodbury at some point in November. The Mander family were traditionalists and only celebrated Christmas at Christmas. It is a time of games, presents and family rows. In fact, the games frequently ignited the family rows. "Simon has been stealing from the bank. He's always doing that," said Graham. "Now, Graham, you must give your younger brother a bit of leeway," said Mrs Polly Mander. From this, you might not have gathered that all of the children were in their twenties and perhaps Polly hadn't caught up with this development. Graham's sister, Sally, probably didn't help matters by giving him a clip round the ear. "Did you see that? Did you see that?" Polly was sick and tired of "seeing that" and decided to ignore the suggestion. There was then an extended inquest ...

“ Highway to hell” boomed from a passing car as Lenny slowly let his heavy machine roll out. The song matched his mood. He refrained from revving the engine again before turning off the Harley. Maybe he had a few more seconds if nobody heard him coming. Lenny took off his helmet with the skull print and his sunglasses, ran his fingers through his long hair and opened his heavy leather jacket. Then he took a deep breath and walked slowly towards the lion’s den. After a few seconds, the door was pulled open. Lenny gulped as he thought of the fights that awaited him here every year. But now it was too late to turn back. Now he had to finish the journey. Lenny sighed devotedly, then strode energetically towards the house. “Merry Christmas, mom,” he said and took her in his arms. Andrea Tillmanns

Killing God Part II After their escape, Sheila and Hobbes (formerly known as John Griffin) discuss the next step to their “omniscient plan” for a Sovereign World Order in the marshy swamplands of Louisiana. Their plot, they call “omniscient” because of Hobbes’s godlike knowledge of all digital data. Greenhorn and Juan Carlo change the course of their investigative tactics and start researching the department’s most intelligent FBI agent, Sheila, born “Ursula Wolfgang von Goethe,” raised by immigrant grandparents from Germany to resurrect Hitler’s Third Reich by proliferating the scientific racism of eugenics. In her apartment, on the hard drive of her computer, they find neo-Nazi literature, as well as letters to Hobbes in her sent email with step-by-step instructions to eradicate Christianity. Sheila believes she must enforce population control via extreme measures, from selective social extermination to guided natural selection of only “superior” physical and psychological ...

Reindeer on the Rooftop Ho-ho ho, now hold on…Santa’s in a mess! Delivering toys this time of year can really give you stress   Santa’s sleigh was Christmas-cruising through the frosty skies When Rudolph’s nose blinked red and that is when the SatNav died Dasher starts complaining saying, look the maps won’t load, While Prancer’s on his tablet setting to low-power mode Santa phones the North Pole, saying “Help we’ve got a glitch!” And Elves shout “You need WIFI, so turn on the router switch!”   Every rooftop signal bounces off the snow Now Santa doesn’t know which way the sleigh should go   Reindeer on the rooftop are freaking out tonight Now Santa needs to send the toys, without the satellite Spinning around in circles at midnight in the sky Cause Prancer’s failed to log the Boss into sleigh’s Wi-Fi Santa shouts “Re-boot! Re-boot well this is just insane!” While Elves shout “Turn the router off, then turn it on again”   Snow...

Emma Still Sings   Jesus loves the little children, Emma sang with fourteen other seven-year-olds in her Sunday School class back in 1969, her eyes lifted to the stained-glass sunlight that she thought so beautiful only God could have sent it directly to her. All the children of the world, she sang. Red and yellow, black and white, she sang. They are precious in his sight.             Emma knew she sang off-key, so she offered her song softly. She tried to believe that Jesus could hear her voice, feel her love, despite the many better voices floating heavenward. Sometimes, she only mouthed the words, her voice shadowed by her shyness. But she meant each syllable that crossed her lips.             Only one classmate sang as bad as Emma, but he didn’t know it. He thought everyone looked at him because he sang so wonderfully. He thought his volume and his classmates’...

144 TO BOSTON RAJAN V KOKKURI   “GIVE ME A CHILD TILL HE IS SEVEN & I WILL GIVE YOU A MAN” Bruce Lipton      The 1 st seven years of the child’s life is programming and next few next years are expression of that program. I and my mother used to live in our ancestor house at a remote village of Thrissur. My father used to work in Bangalore those days. My mother had been to his place for few days vacation and returned. On that day I went to take bath in pond in our house. Generally, I try to swim on the steps and take bath. That day I saw wooden pole at distance I swam to that location without telling anything to my mother and swam back safely. My mother did not know I had learned swimming. Initially, she thought I had slipped into deep water. I had given a surprise and her anxiety became happiness suddenly. This was the 1 st wonderful achievement of my little childhood. ...