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Pickled PeninMELON SMUGGLERSWatermelons’ Smugglers — Surreal Stories from the Soviet PastMy aunt and I are in the lorry next to the driver. It’s pitch dark and we can’t see anything ahead apart from the white ghost of a car…Nov 4, 2020Nov 4, 2020
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Pickled PenStop Quote-Retweeting Vile Tweets of the Twats.An open letter to the good people on Twitter.Aug 12, 2019Aug 12, 2019
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