Hello everyone from Blackpool. Well, six weeks is a long time in the United Kingdom and a considerable amount has occurred since our last communication via this medium. We are now back in the warm embrace of the Sykes/Walsh family in the north-west of England after, well, an interesting time down in London. It is a long story, but what the hell, we're going to tell it all anyway. After a couple of weeks working in the pub, we started recognising that it was a strang old place to work. The assistant manager, who we will refer to as David Brent (those of you who are fans of "The Office" will have a rich insight into the personality of this man) in order to protect the guilty, was pretty relaxed about telling us that he was
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