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[ellie]

        CHAPTER 1
' The Village Square '
  Flushing village  seemed a peaceful place to live.  Set around the village green were a handful of shops, and Monday was their market day.
  George Hog  and his petite wife Minnie  owned the bakers, they lived above the shop with their
  two sons CL and KD...............

[Annie0710]

Dr Rush was the village GP, abandoned years ago when his wife complained he didn't understand 'the new her' .............

[CLKD]

  - I started the story on the other thread ……… to save space and keep continuity.

[Autumnlady]

Miss Interpretation was the DRs receptionist. She liked to decide what was wrong with the patients before allowing them an appointment. She was very protective of DR Rush - and didn't understand his wife either

[walking the dog]

Mr cool owned the ice cream parlour, he had recently noticed he had a lot of ladies of a certain age as his clientele

[Annie0710]

Miss Stitch the seamstress lived along the row, business was booming as she was inundated with middle aged women coming to see her often to expand their waistbands,

[ellie]

Miss Stitch decided to make an appointment to see Dr Rush, maybe there was another reason for her expanding waistline!  She was sure she hadn't eaten too many of Mr Hogs delicious pork pies ....
       Just then an awful thought came into her head...... 'NO surely not' she thought.......she hadn't been so stupid.....or had she!!!

[walking the dog]

And suddenly miss stitch realised why she was craving mr cools ice cream !

[walking the dog]

Mr scoop gleefully rubbed his hands as he added his secret ingredient to his ice cream,he was on a secret mission to help the ladies !

[ellie]

  It was an early  Autumn morning and still dark.Mr Hog was busy in his bakery. He was worried about his eldest son KD, he had been very quiet lately.....He knew KD had a new girlfriend, but didn't know who she was.
  He heard a door close, and as he looked out of the window, it was KD going across the village green.
In the half light he saw what looked like a young woman , "could that be Miss Stitch standing under the oak tree? he thought " What were they up to so early !  Mr Hog was worried...............

[Two hoots]

But it wasn't only Mr Hog who was watching .......

[Urbanchick]

...Mrs Slack, two doors down and behind the privet hedge [new windows fitted last year to stop the draught, money wasted according to Mr Slack, as Mrs Slack insists on opening the windows all the time, whatever the weather] was twitching the curtains.    She had just googled 'weird pain under left breast' and was cross referencing the results with her earlier search of 'sharp pain when breathing in' and 'raised, dry patch on left nipple' when she heard a noise from the village green. 

'Well I never', she thought, 'Miss Stitch and that boy from the bakery.    She's not going to get much joy from his currant buns,  too doughy with a soggy centre'.   She'd mentioned it to Mr Hog several times and told him she much preferred a cream horn, particularly in the morning.  Mr Hog wouldn't stock them though, on account of them getting under Mrs Hog's mother's plate.

'What are you doing', came the cry from downstairs.    Mrs Slack, not wanting Mr Slack to see her taking her only 10 minute break in the day, turned quickly away from the window and bent towards the bed, intent upon finishing her hospital corner.  A sudden sharp pain shot across her chest and down her left arm, leaving her breathless and shaking.

She fainted clean away, ripping the sheets from the bed as she fell.    Mr Slack rushed towards her, caught his foot on the sheets and knocked himself out on the headboard.   The dog, rushing upstairs to join in the game, narrowly missed taking his eye out on the length of metal sticking out of Mrs Slack's flowered pinny.      'Silly cow', thought Fido, 'even I could see that push-up, padded bra was way too small for her.  When will she start accepting she's now a woman 'of a certain age?'

Meanwhile, on the village green, ...   

[Claireylou]

 

[walking the dog]

Mr cool shuddered at the thought that miss slack was encouraging Mr hog to make cream horns ! What was wrong with a,real ice cream !? Something must be done he thought to himself and soon

[Two hoots]

Chapter 2

As she watched the sun slowly setting Scarlett gazed at the Spanish coastline, she dangled her bronzed legs in the crystal clear water and sipped her prosecco. How her life had changed, luck had been with her on the day she bought that euro millions lucky dip, it had given her the opportunity to leave her demanding husband Wally, he had once been George Clooneys double, but the years had not been kind to him.

Mrs Rush, Mrs Rush, the captain of her yacht called, it's time we sailed, the journey to Ibiza will take six hours and you have a meeting at 11.00 am. As she climbed back onto the deck she has a smile playing on her lips, yes she thought a meeting to discuss my return to Flushing Village, how I'm going to ruffle a few feathers, Miss Interpretation, you had better watch the shadows, she even looked forward to reacquainting with that flea bag mutt Fido, you have cocked your leg against my prize azelea for the last time ha ha ha she laughed as the sound of the yachts engine disturbed the calm, the calm before the storm ...........