Turkey And All The Trimmings

By Ian Ashley

Once again Maureen and her friends are back and in this collection of festive short short-stories, as related by the author, and they are up to their usual tricks on the run up to the Big Day itself.
Unwanted gifts, badly cooked Brussels sprouts, same-sex nativities and dialling 999 in case of fire are only a small part of celebrating the Christmas holiday in Biddermouth on Sea.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ian Ashley
• Release date: Nov 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370049806

Ian Ashley

Born and raised in United Kingdom and living in the historic English market town of Newbury in Berkshire, England and author of 'BELL, BOOK & HANDBAG' and a collection of 30 short stories 'TOURIST TROUBLE'. Both soon to be available on SMASHWORDS. (http://ianashley.co.uk/books.html )Ian is also the creator of the 'BIDDERMOUTH GAZETTE' a highly readable weekly blog about the life of the inhabitants of a small English seaside town. http://biddermouthgazette.ianashley.co.uk

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Turkey

&

All The

Trimmings

By Ian Ashley

Copyright 2016 Ian Ashley

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Once again Maureen and her friends are back and in this collection of festive short short-stories, as related by the author, and they are up to their usual tricks on the run up to the Big Day itself.

Unwanted gifts, badly cooked Brussels sprouts, same-sex nativities and dialling 999 in case of fire are only a small part of celebrating the Christmas holiday in Biddermouth on Sea.

Contents

Turkey and all the Trimmings

Dail 999 for Christmas

The Ghost of Christmas Present

Christmas Bingo

No Business Like Christmas Show Business

New Year Resolutions

The Trouble with Celebrity Weddings

Turkey and all the Trimmings

Last week’s Victorian Christmas Street Fayre could well be the last. Although Bella Bynge, who is employed by the Biddermouth Council to market our little town to the rest of the world is pulling on all her PR contacts to put a positive spin on the e-coli outbreak that was traced to her friend Livia’s Quorn Hot Pot stand.

However I’m not sure any of the fifteen people affected will agree with her statement that having an extra three weeks off work over Christmas is such a good thing; especially when you are spending them in an isolation ward. Poor Della Cromwell certainly won’t. Sadly she’ll be resting for a great deal longer than the others unless the Almighty brings Judgement Day forward to avoid clashing with the New Year fireworks display on the Promenade. Still as Bella said there is always an extra risk when somebody has underlying health issues. She also said that the thoughts of the Town Council were with Della’s family and friends