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The Twelfth Day Of Chris Musk Arthur woke just after midnight. He felt ridiculously alive and alert. Unlike the previous evening. At ten o’clock, Florian received a message from Tuppence telling him not to stay up but promising that the show would end at midnight, and they would go straight to bed. Meanwhile, Arthur and Florian, with the occasional input from the Professor, tried to think of a…

The Eleventh Day Of Chris’s Musk Arthur wasn’t surprised to have a visitor the next day. It was the identity of the visitor that caused him to double-take. Dressed in the same overalls as the day before, but without the face mask, goggles and head scarf, he could now recognize the sender of the gifts: the ever glamorous, previous incumbent as Queen of the Rear, Ms Tanner Bottoms. All the post…

The Tenth Day Of Chris Musk Arthur felt he had no choice but to try and satisfy Pert’s request. And, in truth, he wanted to meet this determined gifter. He/she/they/other must be quite something. He managed to persuade Florian to set up a va-va-vroom call for first thing. Initially, PC Pound couldn’t be seen, only heard, which turned out to be a plus, because, when his camera kicked in, Arthur…

The Ninth Day Of Chris Musk Arthur felt bruised. He had phoned ahead, to make sure Pert was in. He didn’t think leaving a box of gold strings on the doormat of the block in which Pert lived was sensible. And he didn’t want to find out what Pert’s security thought about it, if it went missing. Pert had promised he would be there, but when Arthur had arrived, he was nowhere to be seen. Eventually…

The Eighth Day Of Chris Musk The next day was Sun-with-occasional-showers-day and all right (and several left) thinking Callipygians didn’t work. Arthur was of an age where he had begun to tilt to the right, but today he knew his duty lay in being present at the Post Office in case another gift arrived. He was also intrigued. The Professor’s explanation that these gifts had something to do with…

The Seventh Day Of Chris Musk Things were, Arthur thought, getting out of hand. Everyone in the office was excited by what the next gift might be. Apparently, according to Florian, who Arthur thought was secretly loving the attention, the top three ideas were: a knitted representation of the famous Kidney cartoon Snow Bright and her Seven Wharves, in which the beautiful shipping baron defeats…

The Sixth Day Of Chris Musk It snowed. It didn’t often snow in Callipygia and when it did, most services refused to work. Trains were cancelled, shops shut, and offices held informal parties. The post office, however, continued to function. Arthur was in early again, having set up a call with Professor Marks to discuss strange stuff on which he was the expert. To his surprise, the Professor…