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Ignoring him, her eyes travelled on to where Mickey was sitting, his head close to Kev’s as they pored over a sheet of paper on the table
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‘Fucking great bangers - great!’ Mickey called across the table to Sheila, his eyes on her ample breasts
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By the time the sausages had all gone, Mickey was sitting by Sheila, one of his hands out of sight under the table – by the look of it, busy investigating what was under her skirt
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Kev had joined Mickey stamping … the noise was deafening
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Chrissie posed, allowing her gaze to wash across the upturned faces in front of her – Sheila, face closed yet unpleasantly appreciative – Mickey and Kev getting into a right going state of excitement – Chas, his eyes stripping off the tiny scraps of fabric clothing her, his hands in his lap, invisible in the shadows – Ozzie, drunk and clapping not quite in time to the music
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She concentrated on shutting out the sounds she could hear from further down the corridor which suggested that Mickey was with Sheila as, tentatively, she crept along to the bedroom, uncertain what she would find
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Mickey and Kev were standing in a hole some two metres deep at its centre – up to their ankles in water by the look of it
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Sheila was squatting on her haunches as close as she could get to where Mickey and Kev were digging, muttering something to Mickey
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On the opposite side of the hole, Sheila was hauling her top over her head with appreciative commentary from Mickey, now standing on the side of the pit beside her
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‘My turn!’ Mickey said, leaping into the mud beside them and grabbing at Sheila
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Mickey looked up briefly as she sat down at the table then, scorn in his eye, turned to Sheila and muttered something inaudible from where Chrissie was sitting
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She needn’t have worried; he only had eyes for Mickey
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Storming around the table bellowing foul language, Chas reached Mickey and lashed out with his fist
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Mickey rounded on Chas and retaliated with one of his great fists, lifting the man off his feet and sending him crashing to the floor
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Stunned, Chas lay on the floor for a moment before leaping to his feet and throwing himself at Mickey, his face a vicious mask of violence
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Ozzie threw himself at his friend, trying to restrain him … Kev grabbed Mickey and wrestled with him
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Horrified, Chrissie watched, one hand covering her mouth, as Chas hauled himself out of Ozzie’s grasp, launching himself at Mickey yet again
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Kev, seeing him coming, released his grip on Mickey and quickly moved out of the way
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Before Mickey could follow through, Kev grabbed him and hauled him off
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Mickey and Kev stood suddenly still
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’ Mickey said quickly, ‘It was self defence
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He turned to Mickey and Kev
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Mickey was pale, his face pinched with cold
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‘Chas has been having these fits since his accident … it wasn’t your fault, Mickey
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Mickey steadily worked his way through the bowl of porridge which Sheila plonked in front of him
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Apart from her concern for Mickey, Sheila was her usual self – handing out food and hot beverages in her normal, less than charming manner
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The door of the sitting room suddenly burst open and Mickey appeared
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Mickey wailed wordlessly, his eyes on Sheila’s face, as they all waited to see if she would breathe again
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He looked across at Mickey who nodded, his face blank
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Mickey had pleaded with Chrissie to help him clean and dress the body
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She’d been touched by the earnestness of his feelings for the dead woman and done her best to tidy up the corpse, dressing it in the clothing Mickey had selected from Sheila’s limited wardrobe
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Sheila’s room was stripped – anything not worth keeping she threw away – the rest she passed to Mickey to do with as he thought best
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’ Mickey muttered, his voice expressing both his physical tiredness and his weariness with the whole project
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Mickey nodded as though he understood every word and Ozzie interpolated a phrase here and there as though proving that he too understood
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‘Come and play with Mickey
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’ Mickey repeated in a monotone, over and over, almost as a mantra as Ozzie half threw Chrissie into the room
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’ Mickey said, grabbing her hips and hauling them towards him
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’ Mickey said mournfully
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‘This is where you get to, is it?’ Mickey said from behind her
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Her chest heaving with the effort of catching her breath, she risked a glance back down the path – Mickey was nowhere in sight
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Mickey was suspended some feet below the top of the cliff, holding on to the remains of the bush which had apparently collapsed under his weight when he fell onto it
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Then, as she watched mesmerised, the last of the roots of the bush lost its grip on the thin soil and, with a thin terrified scream, Mickey plunged towards the roiling sea below
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Her eyes darting around the length of the shore below her, she ran to the steps and stood uncertainly, searching for any hint that Mickey might have survived the fall
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Kev commented – puzzlement loud in his voice – on how they had gone along all the paths looking for Mickey
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‘You sure you didn’t see Mickey anywhere?’ Ozzie asked her out of the darkness
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Ozzie’s behaviour after Mickey disappeared had made Kev nervous
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’ Mrs Brown suggested, her hand on the knob of the next room – the one Mickey had used
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‘So Mickey and Sheila hit it off, did they?’ the Inspector asked as Andy gratefully gulped his sugar-laden tea down
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‘Chas at first … and then Mickey
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‘Did Mr Middlesex lose interest in Mrs Hartley-Jones? Is that why Mickey got involved?’
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Tragic, Mickey, tragic
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Ted's top-up appears and Ken hands Mickey his change
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Mickey worked the farms, milking and labouring, while Ted steamed forward on the light entertainment express to Eastbourne, Morecambe and Scarborough
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It doesn't seem to bother them when they reminisce, that Mickey manned the secondary strikers’ barricades while Ted was a true blue supporter of capital punishment
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Mickey stops talking in mid sentence and looks over Ted's shoulder
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Ted, glass in hand, stands up, pats Mickey on the shoulder and walks over to where Alex is standing
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Mickey takes his cue, walks up and joins the group
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An hour passes during which Alex gets Ted's life story, with interjections about local farming history and the kids from Mickey
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Mickey isn’t a bad bloke, Inspector, just a bit rough … Sheila could handle him, she was as rough as he was, but Chrissie … no, it wasn’t right … and then he went and disappeared … well, that just put the wind right up me
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“Yeah that’s right, I can’t train and put up with her Mickey Mouse shit at
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I heard a cry from just behind me and when I looked I could see that Jimmy Lord had been hit and that his twin brother Mickey was trying to look after him
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As he tried to dress his brothers wound Mickey was hit I watched as he tried to put his hand up to his neck as blood sprayed out of the wound then he simply went head first over the side into the blue water
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“Don’t be silly lad there is nothing you can do but get yourself killed and what good would that do anybody and Mickey certainly wouldn’t want you to do it
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” I looked at the blood slick on the surface and followed it as it trailed down through the clear clean water to where Mickey had disappeared into the depths
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I was asleep in seconds but the nightmares soon came to haunt me especially the ones about the landing and my friends getting killed I saw their faces again Mickey Lord Lt Cole Charlie Slater and many more and I walk up in a cold sweat of fear trembling and sick to the stomach again
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” As he related this I remembered Mickey Lord and how he had tried to look after his brother Jimmy and how he had gone over the side of the boat and I shivered
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“Of course it is worse for my Mum I mean losing Mickey was a terrible blow but this news about Jimmy has crushed her and she has not stopped crying since she found out
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“Who’s there are you one of us if you are could you spare fag mate?” I looked over and in the growing light I could see that it was three people who I knew there was Mickey Jones, Fred Hargreaves and Lt Johnny Pearson
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“Hello you three what brings you out to a charming holiday resort like this then?” Mickey replied
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” Mickey Jones joined in saying
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I turned again to Fred and Mickey and said
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” Mickey smiled saying
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I thanked them and then waited for the artillery strafe to pass over the top of us as it did I slipped over the lip of the crater the last thing I heard was Mickey and Fred wishing me good luck and god speed
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Then I literally pissed my pants because one minute I was saluting Fred and he was signalling for me to get a move on and the next second Fred, Mickey and Lt Johnny Pearson had disappeared
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“I saw Corporal Frank Lord go down right at the start I don’t know if he is dead but Pte Nobby Clarke definitely is, the same goes for Bert Hall, Sam Brown, Fred Hargreaves, Mickey Jones, Dusty Miller, S/Sgt Ted Wallace, Lieutenant Johnny Pearson and Major Melstone
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“The next ones I saw die Sir were Lt John Pearson, Pte Fred Hargreaves and Pte Mickey Jones and before you ask there were only teeth and gore left of them by the time the howitzer shell had finished with them
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* As much as I take the Mickey out of the longhaired liberals they are correct in this
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Her name was Mildred O‘Brian and her nickname was Mickey
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Mickey was still dressed the same way she was when she met me in the Rustic Inn
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After we got married I told Mickey, ―Look lady, we got to get some shoes on you
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Mickey had big feet
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I am not sure what their point was, besides taking the Mickey out of the Army, which was always enjoyable and a well-respected SAP COIN tradition
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It must be said the Army took the Mickey out of us whenever they could get away with it which was not that often
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Sometimes you heard funny things coming through the bathroom vent in this Mickey Mouse little apartment
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My eyes were drawn back to the rink entrance where I saw these two cats from school; Logan Gelderring and Mickey Jumbo
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Except for those punk ass bee otches: Logan and Mickey, who were hanging out in our section - unwelcomed, I might add
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hat, a pink jacket with Mickey Mouse embossed on the right chest, denim shorts, long
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Instead of the brooch as she had expected, inside the box was a watch – a grinning, white-gloved Mickey Mouse walking across the face with his big yellow feet
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The two other girls wearing the Mickey Mouse T-shirts stared at each other
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Mickey Mouse T-shirts screamed hysterically
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girls wearing Mickey Mouse shirts stared at her
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The line split as other children followed Erica; the two girls in the Mickey
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I sent their stupid contract administrator, Mickey M
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Apparently Mickey had a very thin skin
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He said Mickey was "in tears,” so upset that HE could not talk with me
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I refuted that spurious claim by telling him I had not only had reason to doubt this assertion, but that it was exactly the same excuse that Mickey had given during our one and only prior conversation in February after I took cognizance of the balloon contract, i
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To expedite matters, I faxed the attachments immediately after hanging up and had no further contact with Mickey until I faxed him re the WDs in April
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Despite my finding it incredible that a grown man would cry over my fax, I nevertheless apologized to the ACO for inadvertently upsetting Mickey
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Going the extra mile to ameliorate matters, I also emailed Mickey an apology (though I thought then, and still do, that none was warranted)