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  1. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 24 Changes at the Green Dragon

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Transgender College / Twenties Mature / Thirty+ Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) Within six months of her arrival Harriet had been completely accepted by the locals as Pete’s daughter ...

    - 2022/05/12 - 11:38pm - 6 comments

  2. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 25 What Exactly is Money?

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) Saturday evening had rolled round yet again and the Grumpy Old men’s Society were ready for another round of tales. There was always something new to ...

    - 2021/05/06 - 6:19am - 3 comments

  3. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 26 Bearthwaite Folk to the Core

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words College / Twenties Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) Things were back to being unrestricted as far as public gatherings were concerned and the Green Dragon tap room was so full that Sa ...

    - 2021/05/16 - 1:56pm - 2 comments

  4. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 27 I Loved the Old Money

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) It was a cool enough evening to have the fires in the tap room of the Green Dragon well stoked. There were a dozen or so outsiders in but they were al ...

    - 2021/04/04 - 4:26am - 2 comments

  5. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 28 Treated Like a Mushroom

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) It was Saturday and the men in the taproom were getting ready for the next session of tall tales, reminiscences and the like. Over the last week an ei ...

    - 2021/04/11 - 8:54am - 1 comment

  6. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 32 The Bearthwaite Economic & Social Recovery Plan

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words College / Twenties Mature / Thirty+ Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) At long last the wait was over. In the early afternoon of a Wednesday Gladys went into labour with no warning a we ...

    - 2021/12/04 - 3:13am - 1 comment

  7. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 33 Shopping

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 17,500 < Novella < 40,000 words Non-Transgender Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) Yet again it was Saturday evening and the Grumpy Old Men of Bearthwaite were meeting in the taproom of the Green Dragon with their regu ...

    - 2022/01/01 - 5:45am - 2 comments

  8. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 34 Harriet’s Steak & Kidney Puddings

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) The Grumpy Old Men were ready for yet another Saturday evening in the tap room of the Green Dragon Bearthwaite. All was ready, beer glasses were fille ...

    - 2022/02/01 - 4:25pm - 1 comment

  9. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 35 Just Wear a Mask

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words College / Twenties Mature / Thirty+ Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) Harriet and Gladys her mum were chatting whilst they waxed and polished the tables in the best side. “I took some ...

    - 2022/02/05 - 4:46am - 1 comment

  10. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 37 Alf’s Philosophies and Youtube

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Transgender College / Twenties Mature / Thirty+ Senior / Sixty+ Green Dragon Bearthwaite Posted by author(s) A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 37 Alf’s Philosophies and Youtube Before dawn, the fi ...

    - 2023/04/01 - 6:22am - 4 comments

  11. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 38 Bearthwaite Invests Even More in Itself

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 38 Bearthwaite Invests Even More in Itself “Nay, Lad that was fine. There’s nothing to be ashamed of in telling of the lives of ordinary working blokes, and those lads that died fighting that fire and in the explosion deserve to be ...

    - 2024/05/22 - 9:41am - 2 comments

  12. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 39 Iroko, Ermine and Critters

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words College / Twenties Mature / Thirty+ Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 39 Iroko, Ermine and Critters Atypically for the time of year the weather was warm at Bear ...

    - 2022/12/22 - 10:40am - 2 comments

  13. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 40 Bearthwaite Acquires New Bearthwaite Folk

    “Davy is a hundred and three just turned and Granny’s hundred and first birthday is on the ninth of next month. Elle has telt Casper Lawton to be prepared, and to have a traditional Bearthwaite ash wood coffin ready for him. The allotment lads have said t ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:35pm - 6 comments

  14. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 41 Bearthwaite Politics, Law, Lore and Reality

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 41 Bearthwaite Politics, Law, Lore and Reality One of the pupils at Whiteport Academy was Fergus McCann. To others fourteen year old Fergus was the ultimate alpha male. A big strong and physically unstoppable boy who was the star o ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:43pm - 7 comments

  15. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 42 Adoption, Education and Death

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 42 Adoption, Education and Death After the first serious beating by forces unknown of the most vociferous bigot, an overweight fifteen year old who went by the nickname of Porky, behind the dining hall even the name calling diminis ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:56pm - 2 comments

  16. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 43 Bearthwaite Beck, Solid Fuel & Limned Letters

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 43 Bearthwaite Beck, Solid Fuel & Limned Letters If Dr Tenby had any surprise at seeing a naked, eleven year old, biological female holding his father's hand she kept it to herself. At the end of Peter’s appointment, Dr Te ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:12pm - 2 comments

  17. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 44 Spring, Broadband, and Natural Justice

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 44 Spring, Broadband, and Natural Justice Since being a toddler, Violet had heard many conversations concerning war, it was something regularly discussed by Bearthwaite men, a number of who had served in the armed forces, and she h ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:26pm - 1 comment

  18. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu “However, we’d been talking for no more than ten minutes when I realised I was in way over my head. I’d already made my mind up about her. She is our kind of folk, and desperate to be seen as such, so I rang fo ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:51pm - 4 comments

  19. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 46 Bringing the Past into the Future in the Present

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 46 Bringing the Past into the Future in the Present This is for those few of you who are interested in the GOM. For the first time since writing GOM 01 I have nothing left in the ideas file. There is nothing with which I can even b ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:05pm - 2 comments

  20. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence “That story Angus prised out of her concerning that Landrace boar her grandfather gave her as a piglet when she was what? six or seven was priceless! And her mum’s reaction when her lurcher pup her dad ga ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:13pm - 2 comments

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