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Mike Irving (a.k.a Mr Blogsbody), a former investigative Fleet Street reporter for yesteryear's Sunday Pictorial, has switched to performing a small town role as Alresford's hack, satisfying assorted media assignments between queuing for his weekly state pension.
More infamous today for the consequences of the half-century difference in age between his youngest son Sam and himself, after Blogsbody's third wife left he raised their three offspring on a unique combination of child benefit and old age pension paid out to him by Postmistress Jackie Sanger in Hampshire's watercress capital of the world.
Posted at 8:26am Monday 22nd March 2010
Blogsbody and his Firkin Dogsbloggy plan for inevitable in Cressroads
Sworn to carry out each other's shared death wish, an appointment for burial is made to visit Twyford's under ground Natural Death Centre by Alresford's town hack and his blogging henchman
Posted at 8:46am Sunday 21st March 2010
Goodbye Mark spreads fear of another two-seat majority for Winchester
Themselves to blame for MP Oaten's 13-year-old reign, two wrinkly Cressroadians bemoan the consequences over their glasses of red wine.
Posted at 1:27pm Thursday 18th March 2010
Four Sildenafil v Eight Pints of Dorset Copper as Old Bloggy plans away game
'By the sounds of your blog, your back is being well looked after. You take care and don't overdo it,' Lady Karen of Greater Cressroads all but withdraws her sporting offer of a massage for her Mr Bloggy.
Posted at 4:03pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
Daisy-Mae twins brace of Cressroads' candidates for Westminster
Winchester and Meon Valley candidates for Westminster - one Tory, other Libdem - offer two for the price of one as seat splits in two for upcoming General Election
Posted at 1:05pm Friday 12th March 2010
Ministry of Work deals fresh hand up back-to-work ladder for Alresford's one among millions
Is someone likely to want to imagine Sam-not-enough owes his sporting chance of beginning his working life afresh to Whitehall's suddenly inspired Brigade of Brownshirts - or practically to advise him to lay hands on everything on offer for as long as it remains up for grabs?
Posted at 1:22am Thursday 11th March 2010
Meet! Greet! Cressroads' L-Nibs seeks to overcome his six months on the dole
Alresford's town hack finds urgent cause to inflict his Continuing Story of Cressroads on City Road's job centre
Posted at 11:25am Tuesday 9th March 2010
Firkin Henry Sups 72 pints each week saving others from drink
“Keeps m'arm in with m'old cows for three hours of a Saturday, I does” - but the otherwise retired stockman on Cressroads’ Grange Farm is kept busy having his pint pot recharged 72 times-a-week to milk a Bridport brewery and divert hundreds of pounds of its profits to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute.
Posted at 2:31pm Monday 8th March 2010
Co-op has deadly plan to bring listed Alresford Post Office back to life
Penny Black! As Cressroads’ Post Office moves down West Street to a far corner of ‘The Coop’ supermarket in town, a macabre possibility threatens change of use for the vacated listed building on West Street.
Posted at 11:51pm Saturday 6th March 2010
Continuing Story of Cressroads knows no bounds
A glimpse of a half-dozen Alresford souls alive as well as dead are resurrected to return to cyber space on the Ides of March as the town's three pharmacies wail: "We need no reminding."
Posted at 9:21am Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Alresford Co-op Has More Secrets In Store
Cryptic clue is 'Penny Black' as main Post Office closes in Cressroads
Posted at 10:55am Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Story of Cressroads Returns to Cyber Space
Ides of March see return of Alresford's Continuing Story of Cressroads, after pilot blog's 21,000 words spark popular BBC film.
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