OK.

Stop me if you've heard this before.

Hidden in the English Channel is an island called Piffling.

On the island is a village, called Piffling Vale, and on the village square is a funeral

home.

And opposite that is another funeral home, and that's really the problem in a nutshell.

Because Eric Chapman is everyone's favourite, he puts the fun in funerals, he helps them

all enjoy themselves, and he's a bit of a charmer to boot.

Whereas the brother and sister across the square are nobody's favourite people, nobody

likes their funerals, by now they've got quite used to it.

But that doesn't mean they have to like it.

Wooden overcooked by David K. Barnes, season 3, episode 1, the loneliness of the short-tempered

Rudyard.

I'm a writer by trade, the first mouse to pen a Sunday times best seller, not once, but

twice.

But today I'd paced up and down the length of the skirting board and still I'd come up

with nothing.

So I decided to take a stroll outside.

I scampered across the floor of fun funerals, slipped under the door, and made my way to

the middle of the square.

The sun would be setting shortly.

Rudyard would be coming home from a funeral.

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