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Tales of Olde Yarwick (& More)


The first ten stories are set in a fictional, utopian version of York aka Yarwick while the other five are set in York as it was in my younger days. The stories are written to entertain but also to ask you to think about ways this wonderful city could be made even better.

 

Do you live in a city you love but would like to improve? Or in a dump which is in desperate need of change? What would you do if suddenly you had the power to enhance your environment? The first ten stories in this collection should give your imagination a boost to answer these questions. Set in the author's home city on York, transformed into Yarwick, the tales have ideas for how to set your town on the road to perfection.


Bill Banks is a rough diamond who has his own ideas of how the city should be and is ready to fight anyone or anything that gets in his way.


The collection is completed with five earlier stories set in York, which attempt to give the reader a feel for the atmosphere of this unique city.




Hospitals not overcrowded they are just popular.




Ministers were quick to clarify that the Christmas queues for hospital admission, were caused by the mortuary’s ever-popular Santa’s grotto and the fact that rickets is still in vogue. Branding buildings as ‘overcrowded’ fails to consider that facilities are smaller now, while patients are noticeably fatter.


If anything, the jammed waiting rooms were a tribute to the NHS’ fashionable vibe and are a great way to preserve body heat. A Health official explained: ‘Elbow-to-elbow fit to bust – this is more like Glastonbury but with more dementia and slightly less herpes.’


This new-found popularity does come at a cost, with many patients having to book their beds in advance of getting ill. Said one prospective ‘customer’, in a tent outside their local A&E ward: ‘I’m planning to have diaphragmatic hernia sometime in 2021, so it made sense to start camping now. And if I get pneumonia in the process, well I’m in the right place, aren’t I?’  




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