UNDER THE WILL… OVER THE DRAMA…

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  • Episode 68 – Bully Blows His Horn…

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    (Under the Will, Over the Drama – June 5th, 2025) Bully Blows His Horn… Then Rings The Doorbell and Jumps Back in His Truck… There are days when Faurel Hill is so peaceful, you’d swear the world had slowed to a gentle hum.And then there are days when Bully Yates decides to crank up the…

  • Episode 67 – The Curious Case of the Vanishing Saturdays…

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    (Spoiler: They vanished right into Bully’s wallet.) In the final stretch of Dad’s life, things were raw. Everything hurt, everything mattered, and somehow, everything still had to get done. We’d been running a 13-day shift pattern (not my decision!). Let that sink in: thirteen days straight. I had one day off, just enough time to…

  • A Message From Mam…

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    Well now, isn’t this a fine kettle of fish? I’ve been a bit tied up, you see. There’s a lovely bridge club up here – Ethel from down the way, Mrs. Donnelly from over the way, and your Auntie Petronella (who still cheats, by the way). We’ve been having ourselves a grand old time, and…

  • Episode 66 – Close Contact, Convenient Excuse…

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    The family that claimed close contact – but kept their distance just fine. Ah, the pandemic. A time for reflection, banana bread, and discovering just how far people would go to avoid pulling their weight. Some families grew closer during lock-down. Mine? They discovered a goldmine of excuses that even the CDC would struggle to…

  • Episode 65 -Bully’s Play…

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    Bully’s Play: How I Pulled One Over and Took Center Stage at the Wake… Oh, you thought you had this family drama figured out? Cute. While you were busy playing the victim, stuck in your sad little world, I was working the angles. Quietly. Smoothly. Like the puppet master I am. Three years, I say.…

  • So… Who Ordered This Reality?

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    So… Who Ordered This Reality? – I’d Like to Return It… You ever wake up and feel like you’ve been dropped into someone else’s Netflix drama? Like you’re just casually existing and then – bam – you’re starring in ‘Gaslight Manor: A Family Tragedy with Occasional Farm Tools’. Today, I looked around and thought: How…

  • Legacy in Fur and Fury: Heff…

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    Tonight, I’m sitting here with Heff. Heff is my late mother’s dog. He is now blind, diabetic and, let’s be honest, an honorary bastard of the highest order. A story in himself. He’s the kind of creature who, if he could talk, would tell you to get your hands off him, turn off the light…

  • The Stranger at the Wake – Part 2…

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    Three hours that changed everything. If you’ve been following this story, you’ll know I left my dad’s wake confused as hell, with a son nobody in my family knew about and a million questions swirling in my head. On the drive home, I finally started asking them. ‘How did you even know my dad died‘?‘Who…

  • Episode – 63 The Will Whisperers…

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    Masters of the Side Chat, Destroyers of Transparency. Every family has them. They don’t shout. They don’t slam doors. They don’t leave paper trails. They just whisper… and somehow, everything tilts their way. Meet the Will Whisperers: The quietly powerful manipulators of inheritance drama. Their Natural Habitat: Hallway corners during wakes. Kitchens where the tea’s…

  • The Stranger at the Wake…

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    The Stranger at the Wake I’ve been thinking a lot about my son lately. The one I gave up for adoption when I was a teenager. The one my family told me never to bring around. ‘He’s just looking for money‘, they said (Bully!). Funny how people love to assign motives to others while keeping…