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...from descriptions of the body, and how it looks, moves and interacts
...to word pictures describing all types of landscapes, waterscapes and skyscapes
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It was only two weeks to Christmas and Jeffrey - of 'Jeffrey's Electrical Goods' shop was extremely pleased with himself at the day's takings. With a last look around the empty shop he stepped outside and carefully locked the door behind him.

For several moments the shop lay silent save for the odd pinging noise from the overhead strip lights as they cooled down.

"Hey, Toaster? You awake?" asked an expensive, home-entertainment centre.

"Hi' Fi. Yes I'm awake. Who can sleep with all the racket and din that's been going on in here today? I've been picked up and handled that many times today my elements are still trembling."

"That's good isn't?" offered Table-lamp.

"How can that be good?" snapped Toaster.

"Well it means that you might be bought soon," replied Table-lamp. "I wish people would handle me. Nobody turns me on anymore."

"Huh! I don't want to be bought!" growled Toaster.

The kettle, sitting alongside the toaster, hissed indignantly. "Rubbish! Of course you want to be purchased. Do you want to spend the rest of your shelf-life sitting here gathering dust?"

At the far end of the shop, a computer screen flickered into life. "Hey, Toaster!" yelled the computer, "I thought I explained all this to you before? It's your role in life to be taken from here and stuffed with bread things for you to toast."

"Oh, leave him be," said Calculator.

"Excuse me?" asked a timid voice from somewhere behind the main counter.

"Who is that?" asked Computer.

"It's only me," replied the voice. "I'm a pencil battery."

"Where are you?" asked Vacuum Cleaner.

"In this cute little bubble-pack with my three sisters," explained the battery. "Can I ask you all something?"

"Never mind all of this nonsense," cried Electric Shaver. I have a really, really serious question to you Computer."

"Buzz away my little beard trimming friend," replied Computer, light heartedly.

"What happens to us all if nobody buys us? I noticed this morning that all of those portable seedy player things were packed up in boxes and taken away and it made me wonder.... Where do they go?"

"Well my friend," began Computer, "I'm afraid that they will more than likely be taken back to the factory and recycled into something else."

"Recycled?" repeated Table-lamp. "What does recycled mean?"

"You're not very bright are you?" sneered a tall standard lamp from beneath its tasselled shade.

"As it happens," said Table-lamp, "I can't help being dim, I'm only forty-watts."

"Well I'm a hundred and twenty!" bragged Standard lamp. "And to tell you the truth it's getting a bit warm. Why does he always leave me switched on?"

"Phew!" exclaimed the Deluxe Model Fridge. "Hundred and twenty in the shade! I'm glad I'm not you!"

"Oh, fridge. You're so cool," crooned Battery.

"But why were they recycled?" insisted the young Shaver.

"Old stock. Old models. The humans are so unpredictable," explained Computer. "You just never know what will happen and....

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