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You Want to Order WHAT!?!?

Posted on April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 by David Lee Stone

“It’s Davey from Blockbuster in Ramsgate: store code 260116. I’d like to place a large stock order, please.”

It’s a Thursday morning, rain is pouring over Ramsgate and I’m on an early shift at Blockbuster Video. I’m really miserable: I’ve had a terrible night with very little sleep, and I’m on my own for the first hour of the shift. The sky is dark, people are running up and down King Street trying to get out of the rain and there’s even a few rumbles of thunder suddenly being thrown into the mix.

Not on My Watch

Posted on April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 by David Lee Stone

“Ah, there you are boys. This isn’t a great start, is it? “What time did I tell you?” I look blankly at my best friend but he doesn’t have a watch on either. “Er….nine o’clock?” “I said eight fifty-five, actually.” “I think it IS eight fifty-five.” “Not on my watch.”

Goodshot

Posted on April 1, 2021 by David Lee Stone

This lovely photograph was taken during our first trip to Euro Disney. It’s a great picture, and I think it shows just how happy we were and what a great time we had there. If you look carefully, you can see that all three of us are seriously LOVING Mickey Mouse Land: myself, my wife and our best friend, Goodshot.

Sports Day

Posted on April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 by David Lee Stone

The picture for this post is very deceiving, because at first glance it appears that I’m totally spanking the five or six plebs still standing on the starting line behind me. In actual fact, those boys are waiting to START the next race….and they’ve been waiting a while. Sports Day at my primary school was usually a competitive event, but most of the bets between the parents focused mainly on whether David Stone would hold up the next race by more or less than ten minutes.

Your Daughter Just Bit Me!

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 by David Lee Stone

Being a parent, I’m aware of the dangers….but some parents aren’t. I was at a certain softplay centre in Thanet two weeks ago when I heard: “Excuse me…..your daughter just bit me.”

On The Spectrum

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 by David Lee Stone

I’m actually worried that we might get kicked out of Marks & Spencer. The security here is top notch and, despite the fact that we’re not actually doing anything wrong, we are drawing a lot of unwanted attention from the other customers in the restaurant. I guess it’s because we’re being quite noisy. ‘The blonde…

Fighting Fantasy and Me: A Chat with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone

Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 by David Lee Stone

This is a story about Fighting Fantasy and Me. It’s probably going to take place mostly in the 80s and 90s but I know exactly where it’s going to begin. A few years after Terry Pratchett gave me the encouragement to forge on with my writing career, I decided to contact another one of my literary heroes in order to actually get an opinion on something I was writing.

Toilet Time

Posted on March 30, 2021 by David Lee Stone

Occasionally, I call my wife in the toilet….just to see how she’s doing. In our house, Toilet Time is quite rare. I wish this was an exaggeration, but it isn’t.

The Wizard of Westwood Cross

Posted on March 29, 2021April 3, 2021 by David Lee Stone

‘So let me get this straight,’ I say, trying to get comfortable in the back of the van. ‘I agree to blog about you, and in return you will show me REAL magic.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Right here at Westwood Cross?’ ‘Yes.’ The year is 2014 and it’s a decent day in July. Not for the first…

The Vegas Nerve

Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 by David Lee Stone

Here comes a true story: like all true stories, it’s shockingly unbelievable. I’ll tell you this in two ‘bites’ – starting with what happened LAST and moving on to what went down half an hour before….