Sword swallowing Stories

After the New Year celebrations at the club and our own New Year celebrations at Carole's flat, it was very late when we finally fell asleep. And so, it was very late when we woke up! I was actually awake for a while, wondering whether I should get up and make tea and toast. But, just as I was thinking about it, I heard Carole's voice. "Vee, do you want a cup of tea?" "Only if it comes with toast!" I replied. "Hahahaha, y...

I came home from work on Tuesday evening and I was feeling so sad about the girls going back home to Norway. The arrangements had been made for an early taxi from North London to Heathrow so we wouldn't be going out to a wild disco club that evening! To be honest, we hadn't really been out much in the two weeks Inge and her friends, twin sisters Tanya and Lani, had been in London. A couple of nights at Crackers in Wardour...

Despite me urging Inge to get up as I had to go to work, she just wouldn't get out of bed! So, I gave her my spare keys and left her there. What a shame that I had to go to work anyway but I couldn't afford to lose my job. Work was the same old routine, a constant queue of unemployed people coming in to register their lack of a job. Occasionally, staff would go to the area office in Central London for a training course wh...