Another Close Encounter / September 22 2008
“Hello again. Are you . . . Were you all right the other day? You seemed a little . . .”
“Oh, yes. No. Sorry about that; I’m having a few problems at home.”
“Oh, how unfortunate; never mind, I’m sure things will improve. Ha ha ha. Your little spaniel is as crazy as ever.”
“He’s going to [...]
Close Encounter / September 19 2008
‘Very pleased to meet you. Audrey and I have seen you a few times with your lively young spaniel. He’s very red. I like red – it’s my favourite colour. Actually, I have no idea why I said that; blue is my favourite colour. Or purple. Blue and purple. Red is a very nice colour, [...]
Hip Hop Pensioner Turns Blue / August 10 2008
‘Reg, I’m sorry if I upset you the other day.’ I felt so bad, I had gone round to my elderly friend’s - the erstwhile alien abductee’s – house to apologise for being so rude to him.
He told me not to worry about it. ‘Anyway, what do you reckon, eh?’
‘What’s that, Reginald?’
‘I’ve bought a drumkit! [...]
He Still Wants To Believe / August 7 2008
Reg has just been telling me again about his recent UFO sighting. He described the object he saw in the sky and recounted in encouraging detail how he had watched it come down in a small copse near the Townend Farm sheep fields. He finished by asking: ‘You don’t believe me, do you?’
‘I believe you [...]
He Wants To Believe More / July 30 2008
Septuagenarian arch joker and conspiracy theorist Reg has been telling me more about the alien spacecraft he is convinced made a crash landing recently in the Derbyshire hills just outside of Blackwell. I bumped into him yesterday as he was jumping off the Alfreton bus.
‘Hey, Davy, look at this what I’ve just bought!’ His voice [...]
