Limber up your ears, because here comes Brian from Melton with his Suffolk accent, not always intelligible to those who are strangers to the “south folk” who reside in the bottom of the big bump on the right side of England. But it’s worth the effort to understand Brian, because he’s funny. And he’s made even funnier by this delightful animation by Steve Kirby. It’ll blow you away.

Together, Brian and Steve tell the story to a phone-in radio show of Brian’s now 94 year old mother, Doris, who may well have predicted the 1987 hurricane when the BBC failed. . . . [more]

This is the last episode in the serial publication of Measuring Life, a crime novel. As ever, it is followed here by a reference to some material on the internet that might interest or amuse you.

The whole novel may be had as a PDF file for the next few weeks. Should you read the book entire, you will see that it bears the marks of a work of fiction written in weekly instalments. No “do-overs” were possible; culs-de-sac entered in week 9, had to be backed out of in week 23; many openings were drawn never entered; and . . . [more]

For the prior thirty weeks the Friday Fillip has been be a chapter in a serialized crime novel, usually followed by a reference you might like to pursue.

Next Friday’s Epilogue will be the last of these instalments of fiction.

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Chapter 30
Pluck

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Chapter 29
Lawyer, Guns, and Money

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Chapter 28
Keep Calm and Carillon

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Chapter 27
Vectors

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Chapter 26
Getting the Lead Out

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Chapter 25
Finding Out

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Chapter 24
Pulling Focus

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Chapter 23
The Unbearable Impossibility of Complete Harmony

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Chapter 22
Where Is Everybody?

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Chapter 21
I’ve Got Your Number