Adventures of Perfect Difference 5

By Nina Edwards

My book is fiction cartoon stories placed on reality day to day life of two young
lads with learning difficulties and their three carers from our Calendar-Diary.
All together we are Perfect Difference 5. In the book you can laugh and forget real life and travel into a planet called Planet Parklands. Captain, Wheeler, Play Dough, Big Ben and Officer Andy are five different people that live on Planet Parklands. We will be very happy to see you visiting us on Planet Parklands.

Talented Mark makes brilliant illustration with his sketches for the
cartoons in my book Adventures of Perfect Difference 5 and Xenia Brettells
book Life on Planet Parklands.

I write a short comedy stories about situations which are connected with our Perfect Difference 5, which would attract adult humour and I wanted people to burst out with laughter. Laughter is a great aspect of life and thats what I want people to enjoy. It does not matter if you have disabilities or problems in life everyone deserves to enjoy life and I hope my book can bring them some joy.
I always wanted to make a difference in peoples lives, to make our world a better
happier place to live. The idea of this book is to make people happy, to smile, to
laugh and accept each other as we are, with all our differences and imperfections.
In 2013 I met Galina Hartshorn, who had just come back from Canada. While there she learnt about human potential and personal growth from Bob Proctor. Since then I have attended her seminars which have changed my life. I have received so much inspiration and support from Galina. She believed in me more than I believed in myself. She gave me a lot of Confidence and encouragement to start writing. She helped me to understand one thing, as Zig Zigler said: You dont have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.

We are all in our own Perfect Difference, live on the same Planet and deserve to
be treated equally.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781499094251

Nina Edwards

I am a very happy person who likes jokes and humour. I am easy going and like to mix and communicate with different nationalities and age groups. I love my job which is supporting two lads with learning difficulties and it allowed me to put all my previously gained skills to good use. I have lots of friends around me. I love my husband David and all our children, grandchildren friends and relatives. I love to make all people around me happy, to see their smiling faces! I have had good education and extensive working experience. I am very fortunate that through my life I was able to mix with people of different nationalities age groups and abilities. Working with disable people and my experience in looking after my second granddaughter Leeza who was born with Down syndrome helped me with idea to organise some sort of Project. It started off using records and references on our working Calendars. The Project is called “Perfect Difference 5”. And Then I start to write a short comedy stories about different situations happened with our Perfect Difference 5, which would attract adult humour. The idea of this book is to make people happy, to smile, to laugh, and accept each other as we are, with all our differences and imperfections. We are all in our own Perfect Difference, live on the same Planet and deserve to be treated equally!

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Copyright © 2015 by Nina Edwards. 704132

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4990-9424-4

             EBook       978-1-4990-9425-1

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover by Nina Edwards

Illustrations by Mark Jinks

Website: http://perfectdifference5.co.uk

Rev. date: 03/19/2015

Xlibris

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Contents

Perfect Difference Five

Happy Days at Planet Parklands

January

The Health Club

February

Cadbury World

April

Easter Festival

Cinema and Reality

Time to Walk

May

Bridgnorth Fishing Holiday

Captain Takes on American Crayfish Invading Bridgnorth

The Crayfish Fight Back

Bessy Gets Spooked by Fish

June

Alton Towers

July

Caravan Holiday

You Live Because You Move; You Love Because You Live

August

Monkey Forest

September

Visiting a Lama Farm

Hello! Is that Accord Repairs?

Pete the Caretaker Makes the Last Stand

Hunter Becomes the Hunted

Night of the Ambush

Officer Andy Had an Idea

October

Visiting a Local Museum

Autumn Dance

Wash Day Blues

Halloween

November

London Theatre Trips

December

Butlins Minehead

Earlier Christmas

Officer Andy’s Life

The Canary Isle Holiday

Officer Andy as Tarzan with a Monkey

Big Ben’s Life

Big Ben, Villa’s Eternal Fan

Big Ben Forgives the Overpaid Playboys

Big Ben Catches Up with His Sleep at Church

Big Ben Keeps Villa Fans Awake

The Queen Wasp’s Story

Morning Mary

Smile with Us!

Gypsy Encampment

Captain’s Story

President of Nebula

The Toy Borg: A Dark Tale

Cain Does a Favour but Pays a Heavy Price

Cain Wakes Up Dead

The Sentence of Cain

From Balti with Love

Officer Andy in His Duty

Officer Andy Repairs Dolly

Huge Man and His Parrot

We Are Married, My Dear!

Her Ghost Returns

Perfect Difference Five

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We are full-time personal assistants of two lads with learning difficulties. Our team—Nina, Mark, and Jay—are good friends, have similar sense of humour, and always help each other. We come from different cultural, ethnic, and economical backgrounds. We have worked together for eight years, which is an accomplishment in itself, and know the needs of the lads in our care. We treat these lads with respect and love. We have had lots of ups and downs in past years together; this has made us stronger as a unit. Our team of carers, along with the lads, have spent a lot of time together at family events, weddings, meetings, and various holidays. The lads in our care have made lots of friends throughout the years.

We have come up with nicknames for the lads, Big Ben as he is very strong. Officer Andy as he likes to report everybody to the police. Nina, Mark, and Jay are personal assistants of Officer Andy and Big Ben. Nina is Captain. She likes to have order everywhere. Mark is Wheeler. As he loves to ride his bicycle and Jay is known as Play Dough. This is because he tries to please everybody. Together, we are the "Perfect Difference Five.

The staff indulges the lads and help make their lives—real and imaginary—come true. As the lads suffer from forever young syndrome and are children trapped in grown-up bodies, other people think Big Ben and Officer Andy act strange sometimes, but the staff know that the way they behave is perfectly normal.

For Officer Andy and Big Ben, even though they have children’s minds, their grown-up bodies need adult stimulation, and they need an outlet for their sexual desires. Some of the things that happen need humour to make light of them (like O Andy’s demands for a rubber doll while food-shopping).

Once, when at church, the vicar asked O Andy what he wanted for Christmas, and O Andy said, ‘A rubber sex doll.’ We had to make light of the situation. The old ladies sitting behind nearly fainted. O Andy always says ‘Dolly’ when referring to a blow-up sex doll, so if out and he starts talking about it in public, we always pretend he is talking about a girlfriend to avoid embarrassment.

Big Ben is always polite but is not aware of people around him; he will push folks out of the way and not be aware he has done it. Big Ben is very loud and will talk non-stop and not listen to any answers; thus, he is asking the same questions again and again. Big Ben was assaulted outside Villa grounds while with his father. The assault happened because Big Ben pushed a man out of his way to keep close to his father. The man, when he found out Big Ben was poorly and could not help himself, said sorry, but the damage was done, and Big Ben lost a lot of confidence that day.

The staff works hard so Big Ben will not find himself in these situations and get himself in more trouble.

In Perfect Difference Five, we all use humour as a way of getting us all through the day. Most bad situations can be defused by making a joke about what’s happened—good or