After Brooke shaved her head, Guppy and Fran had one of their rare arguments. As Guppy had feared, Fran thought Brooke should be able to 'express herself' and if she really wanted to have her hair like that she should be allowed. Guppy thought there was no way Brooke should be allowed to get away with shaving her head without permission ( Read more... )

It wasn't often that Guppy ran into kids on his elderly care ward, certainly not in the staff areas. But this boy is in Dr Ahmadi's room, quietly attempting to do some maths ( Read more... )

It's been a good week at work. Aside from the usual work, one of the other consultants in his department has been searching for his missing nephew for weeks, and now has finally got a lead ( Read more... )

It had been hard for Guppy to explain to the older kids that they couldn't join in Gil's dance group's photoshoots. The appeal of dressing up as a super hero or a fairy in a photoshoot was something they could all get into ( Read more... )

Guppy waits in the wings next to the stage. He has no idea why he feels quite so nervous - after all, it's only Fran and the kids who know him in the audience ( Read more... )

"I need to talk to you ( Read more... )

Once a week, the older two children go down to the leisure centre to learn martial arts. Guppy has been keen to make sure that they have a good grounding of it, particularly since they have their own door to the bar ( Read more... )

One minute he was training inside the ball, for what felt like hours, but can't have been. He moved in a digital world, facing little blurry enemies of mice and birds and all sorts.

And then suddenly the ball shakes, and Guppy finds the digital world fading, and suddenly there is a burst of light as he flies out of the ball into the grass ( Read more... )

Brilliant, just brilliant. The poetic irony of being stuck in a stupid ballIt's sort of floaty in here. And sort of two dimensional. But in front of him, he can sort of see a computer screen interface. It looks familiar, like the game Fran plays... of course... it's a Poké Ball ( Read more... )

[oom: After this.]After school, Guppy gets called into the classroom by Mr Irons, Fry's teacher ( Read more... )