Angela here, hi-jacking Elvis's blog page as he's off on a stag do to Marbella (if his socials are to be believed). I'm not the most tech-savvy person out there, I do what I need to get by and generally faff about until I manage to create what I want - or as near as dammit. Sometimes, I give up and cry into my custard creams. My previous website offered a free Time Travelling Detectives short story if you signed up to my newsletter, but I have no idea how to do that on here, so I'm posting it...

I want to share a personal favourite with you now. It’s a game I have invented (and may seek the patent for) which provides hours of fun for you and your…well, for you, anyway. And that’s the most important thing. This game is called Sniffgate. You’ve heard of Watergate? It’s a bit like that, except it’s not American, there’s no president involved and no tape recorders or wiretaps. In fact, it’s nothing like Watergate at all. I don’t know why I said that. Anyhoo, what you do is this: take...

Spherical objects. Round things. I can’t get enough of them. Footballs, golf balls – have you ever chewed one of those apart? Boy, that’s a lot of elastic. Rubber balls, tennis balls…tennis balls…tennnisss balllsss…tennis…Sorry, drifted off for a moment there. I think I may have an addiction. My human is definitely unimpressed with my fondness for round things. I suspect this is due to the numerous times she’s been dragged across parks, fields and busy roads to pick up a stray football. I...