Thank you. Underwood and Flinch, a novel written and performed for podcast by Mike Bennett.

Episode 23.

This podcast is in 23.

This podcast is intended for an adult audience.

Welcome back to Underwood and Flinch listeners. This episode is the first part of a chapter,

the second part of which will air next time. You may have noticed that I stopped giving chapter numbers a while ago.

I felt that all the different numbers were becoming unnecessarily confusing and so decided

that while chapters work very well in books, episode numbers alone are more

than sufficient for podcasts. Anyway, last time Underwood and the Flinch siblings were getting ready for a night out in

Almasina, and we left them just as they were firing up the Citron and popping in David's 80s mixed tape. This time we move

swift as bats to their destination, La Reina de Cora Zones.

It's a Friday night and the pub is busy with a healthy mixture of local people and

expats.

And as we look around, we can see a few people that we've met before.

Serving behind the bar, a Michelle and Daimo, while propping it up, among many others, is Giles. You remember him. We met him in episode

18, former small-time pop star, the episode with the Pickled Egg Tappas.

Anyway, he's just over there chatting to Dameo, most likely about himself.

And why just coming in now it's the Benson's Cynthia and

Gerald the gangs all here well almost here. Well, almost.

It was shortly after nine o'clock when the Benson's entered La Rena de Coraes-Ones. The pub was busy. Nearly all the tables were

occupied and despite the notice on the door announcing that smoking was only

permitted provided there were no children inside, both cigarettes and children

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