In this serial, Funny Pearls contributor, Loarn, chronicles the events ‘up the community centre’, fictional home to a group of interesting and endearing characters.

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About the author:

Loarn’s early stories for Funny Pearls are available on Amazon as ‘Up the Community Centre Book One: The Thank You Sweets’. In December 2022 Loarn launched her debut crime novel, ‘Samvida and the Purse of Gold’. It’s about a naive young woman who finds herself mixed up with financial crime. Links to both books are on Loarn’s website, www.patersonloarn.co.uk. Currently Loarn is writing an all-new humorous novel about Lovage’s efforts to build her bee-friendly garden design business, helped or more often hindered by her friends from the community centre. Watch this space for the title reveal.