Post Office: Comfortable Place

The Post Office and shop are next door to the Charity Shop. Outside in the street an old streetlamp flickers and hums. Round the corner, if you look carefully, is the little house where the Pinguin Brothers live.
'Posty' the Post Office bear sits on the counter watching the strange shaped parcels and letters that people send and receive; some are even for the bears! These he slips to one side for his own special delivery.
		The Pinguin brothers Are always together, always. They never speak or involve themselves in anything that doesn’t profit them. Their favourite pastime is Dominos, which they play for hours. Moggsley seems to be the only friend they have in the square but even he is little more than a nodding acquaintance. These four secretive bears wander about Comfortable Place with an air of confidence and self reliance. They always wait patiently in the Post Office but never in the queue with the other customers. They prefer to stand in the corner and wait their turn, which nobody minds.
Outside in the grey, a dark grey of an autumn dusk, the faulty streetlight flickered and buzzed on the street corner. From the gloom and the cold suddenly scratchy, clattery, clanky sounds mixed with cries and squeaks and barks and then silence. The people in the queue turned and looked, peered and strained on tiptoes to see the commotion outside. “It’s that streetlight again”, announced the lady inside the door at the back of the queue. “Poor Ms Crotchet almost dropped her parcel.” “What was the clanking?” asked a boy. The lady at the door rotated awkwardly on one foot to see. “It looks like Sherbet with a tin” she replied.

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