The fake physician

“Well,” says the doctor, “I want you to keep very quiet; you’ll have to go to bed and stay there and keep quiet.” In reality, of course, the doctor hasn’t the least idea what is wrong with the...

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I want special treatment

Of course I am special. I know all the words to the nonsense rhyme “One fine day in the middle of the night”, I once made an Olympic torch out of cardboard and coloured streamers and I’m the only person sitting...

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Serendipitous success

Don’t you love stories of success, especially when it is unexpected? Every day on his dairy farm, Pioneer Charlie walked past an old weirdly shaped fallen tree trunk on his way to the milking shed. In his imagination the...

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