Of Bones & Biscuits
Tamsyn Russell: sweary writer of radically-kind and sideways romantic fiction - because sometimes rebellion looks like cake
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Dog & Social Butterfly (opens the original)
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The photo, by the way, is not representative of any of the canines attached to the Admin Hub… physically. Mentally, not so much.The leaves were on the car park in drifts already and it was hardly October.Hannah had bollocked Premises twice already because someone was going to fall on them before the month’s out and then we’ll have a claim. (Hannah also minuted the Health & Safety Forum every quarter, but no side, obviously.)It was hardly ten o’clock and she’d had three screen shots from Val alre
Reasonable Adjustments (opens the original)
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It was the first week of the new term.It had that indefinable smell of the stockroom of Ryman’s stationers, and the odour of panic as the new ones who hadn’t quite got their heads round the idea of mornings and cheap pints in the SU bar, realised that they were in the belly of the beast.(Val stopped, one finger tapping absently on the space bar of the laptop keyboard while he waited to start the Powerpoint, and considered the mixology of metaphors.)There were twenty of them, and he wondered how
Tales From The Admin Hub - 7 (opens the original)
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Catch up on the previous epi of the Skents Shitshow here -Ping.Ward, Hannah: 07:58 kettles on I like that new lad of yours he brought chocolate fingers hes a keeper first week and everything good findSkentlebery, Eleanor: 08:02 yupHub rights. Finders keepers. I have STAFF. You have a calendar and a dragon. Get over it.October.A whole new term.A whole new intake of freshers to be traumatised by the realities of academic rigour, Roger Ellis’s ties, and deadlines.A whole new File Retenti
Tales From The Admin Hub 6 (opens the original)
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Thanks for reading Of Bones & Biscuits! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Catch up on the previous instalmen
Tales From The Admin Hub 5 (opens the original)
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The Previous InstalmentThe first thing she noticed – felt – was that the Book Dragon was half the size of Scott and took up twice the room.Part of that was probably that he come in with a sack barrow and a massive toolbox, and he wasn’t shy about leaving bits around. (She handed him back his half-finished cup of tea, almost cold, and he never said a word.) Hannah kept tutting at him. He was not a tidy worker. He had the toolbox open, he had the contents out and strewn half across the kitchen, he
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