Andy Hawthorne

A Drabble. from the Ministry of Puddles…

I was on a busy train platform on the way home, just like a lot of other people waiting for the same delayed service.

In 1971, the Birmingham University English Society met to invent a game.

At around six o’clock every evening, my eyes decide to fill with grit. Nothing dramatic, just a steady trickle, as though a junior apprentice sand fairy has been given access to my tear ducts.

Decided to put my latest manuscript in “the cloud” today. Seemed sensible enough – everyone's doing it, they said.

The newly-formed Department of Tea Enforcement And Proper Official Teapots (T.E.A.P.O.T.) has today issued strict guidance banning the preparation of tea directly in mugs. From this point forward, all tea must be brewed exclusively in a regulation-approved teapot.

Today, Miss Sally Bean and Mr. James Riley-Pod introduced their new organisation for coffee drinkers.

I woke up this morning with a headache, dry mouth, and a vague sense of shame. Classic hangover symptoms.

The Woodland Intelligence Guild (T.W.I.G) have today dispatched their crack team of tree whisperers to let trees all over the country know that it is in fact, still summer and not autumn.

Today Mr Timothy Bytely from the Digital Archives Transmission Association (D.A.T.A) announced their support foe more data centres to be built in the UK.