The Spare Parts Gremlins

Written by David Leonhardt


Don't you just love getting a little something extra? Sure you do. Everybody does. That's why Online marketers throw in 36 bonus ebooks with that little software item they are peddling.

But a little something extra is not always a good thing.

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I held uprepparttar 100181 chain of bags to inspect. There were screws and bolts and dowels and nails and an assortment of metal and plastic bits for which no name exists.

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That's when I rememberedrepparttar 100186 "Spare Parts Gremlins". These devious creatures gleefully toss spare parts in where they will most confuse us.

The Spare Parts Gremlins were there last Christmas when I was picking from a box of chocolates. I wondered whatrepparttar 100187 big round one was? I looked at allrepparttar 100188 little drawings, but it just was not there.

Tylers Lock - Wedding venue extraordinaire reborn from the ruins of a canal pumphouse

Written by malcolm pugh


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