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    A Shenanigans Tale: War, Tape and Tinsel
    A Shenanigans Tale: War, Tape and Tinsel
    A Shenanigans Tale: War, Tape and Tinsel
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    A Shenanigans Tale: War, Tape and Tinsel

    By K.J. Broadhurst

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    It is the annual Christmas Decorate Your Door competition and the residents of Buttons Court are at war. Having demanded that they go on a shopping trip, James White one of the carer’s at the care home decides to stay an extra couple of days before leaving off on his holidays to help. But what no one realises is, just how far the residents will go to win the competition!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK.J. Broadhurst
    Release dateNov 4, 2013
    ISBN9781301237715
    A Shenanigans Tale: War, Tape and Tinsel
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    K.J. Broadhurst

    K.J.Broadhurst writes as well as being employed as a carer. He is also a well respected complimentary therapist working with people to promote positive emotions.K.j.Broadhurst published his first short story Soot, Whisky and Ho Ho's in 2012 and later published War, Tape and Tinsel in 2013. He is currently re-writing a series of short episodes for publication titled The Shenanigans of Aggies Elbow. A story about a carer who is found dead in a Residential Homes washing machine and James White who seeks to find the murderer. Only in the proccess he himself faces a decision that could change his life forever...

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      A Shenanigans Tale

      Episode II

      War, Tape and Tinsel

      K.J. Broadhurst

      War, Tape and Tinsel

      By K.J. Broadhurst

      Published by K.J. Broadhurst

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      For Maureen

      Who was always wonderfully exasperating!

      Chapter One

      The residents of Buttons Court are at war. It is Christmas and that means only one thing: The annual decorate your door competition. The corridors were alive and cluttered with ornamental Santas, angels, robins, reindeer, gold beads and crosses being frantically lined up, pinned and stuck to and around the front doors. The bigger and more elaborate the better. Flat 7 had purchased a bird house, painted it red in acrylic paint and covered it in gold tinsel. Flat 9 had red and green flashing lights stuck to her door with tape, the wires running through her letterbox. Others just threw everything they could at it including cats, owls, dogs and tigers just with added so-called Christmas ‘extras’ wrapped and tied to them. The rivalry had got so bad that the

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