VIRTUOSOS IN RAINWEAR

  The sinister figures flitted through the dark wet streets, their long black hooded capes swishing with their movements and rustling in the wind. They converged one at a time on the selected house.  The door was silently opened by another sinister figure wearing a matching cape, its wearer’s face in shadow.  As they entered in ones and twos, every member wordlessly took a seat and remained motionless in their capes with the hoods up and their black rainproof masks hiding their faces until the last one arrived.
  It was the regular ‘coven meeting’ for the females of the ‘MacAndrew and Friends’ association.  The twins Jean and Helen arrived at their mum’s house last and found their daughters Anne and Sue already there.
  Everyone stood when the twins completed the group and formed two facing lines.  Flora started the evening’s events by sticking her arms out through the arm slits of her cape, in through the slits in Jean’s cape and round her belted plastic mackintoshed waist.  Jean reciprocated in the same manner.  They greeted, warmly hugged and kissed one another, giving the signal for the rest of the group to do likewise, then move down one line and up the other one until they had all kissed, hugged and greeted everyone else, rubbing their breasts and pubic triangles together as part of the ‘Hello’.
  With the ceremony over, they shed their capes and macs and sat down.  Fergus MacAndrew saw his cue to edge to the door.  “Be seeing you, witches,” he chuckled.  Flora gave her usual affectionate parting, and the ‘coven conference’ got stuck in to the tea and cakes.

 

Cole C. Porter

Blackpool, England

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MAKING YOUR OWN BOOK

If you wish to print out and make your own souvenir book, bear in mind that this story was formatted in A5 in order to be a handy size and the best results will be achieved by printing in A5, although you may wish to print out the cover pictures in a larger size for separate appreciation, in which case I recommend glossy photo paper and the ‘best photo’setting on your printer.

If you don’t wish to buy A5 paper especially for the text part of the book, careful folding, creasing, and slitting some A4 paper with a sharp knife will suffice if you don’t have a guillotine, and will probably work out slightly cheaper.

If you have the time and patience to feed both sides of each page in small batches or have a printer that will print on both sides of the paper, that will reduce the bulk of the book. I recommend that you don’t try to print more than five sides at a time with a single-sided printer in case the printer misfeeds or you make a mistake in orientating the pages or arranging their sequence.

EQUIPMENT

Apart from the paper you will need:

  1. Two pieces of A5 card 0.5 to 1mm thick and preferably white faced, cut to size with a metal straight edge and a craft knife, or a guillotine, if you are unable to obtain the card ready cut to size.
  2.  Strip of card – A5 length x thickness of book. (See METHOD, 5).
  3. Some rubber based adhesive and something similar to apply it with unless you don’t mind using a finger, as I did.
Some paste for attaching the covers to the card backings.  A tube of 'Border and Overlap Adhesive’ worked for me.
  • Some cloth – preferably cotton – 9 ¼” (216mm) long x the thickness of your book + 1” for the spine backing.  An old blouse or shirt is suitable and a squared pattern would make it easier to cut it straight.                
  • A means of clamping the pages together, e.g. two lengths of wood approximately 9” (210mm) long and recommended minimum 1” x 1/2” (25 x 12mm) wide/thick, two clamps, or two nuts and bolts through the wood, or a device such as a workbench with a movable jaw.
  • Two pieces of unprinted paper to go between the book and the wood to stop the book receiving dirty marks from the wood or getting stuck to it whilst clamping the pages.
  • Clean damp cloth for wiping up surplus adhesive.

The rest of the information including method is available when purchasing the book online.