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Do you need some prompts for Christmas or summer stories?

Christmas prompts:

• Overspending – it’s not real money when it’s on a credit card, is it?• Fighting your way round the shops.• Overstocking alcohol and food.• Family quarrels or feuds.• Welcoming a lost sheep back into the fold.• Realising that apart from dogs and other pets, a great many things aren’t just for Christmas.• Who does most of the work at Christmas? The mother figure in the household? Or does everyone lend a hand? What happens when your hero or heroine breaks down on the motorway or on a barren moorland?• Or when the ancient uncle whom everyone hates turns up and announces he is staying for the Christmas duration?

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