Dave Jeffery: Author

An interview recently conducted by Dave Jeffery with Gideon Codd; Mayor of Dorsal Finn.

 

 

Dave Jeffery: Hello, Gideon. Can I thank you for talking to me today?

 

Gideon: That’s ‘Mayor Codd’ if you please.  It may seem a little stuffy but I do have a position to uphold.

 

Dave: Oh, of course. Sorry.

 

Mayor Codd: That’s quite alright. Now I must keep this short because I have a lunch engagement. What can I do for you?

 

Dave: Gideon, I was wondering if you would tell the readers about Dorsal Finn and a little bit about its history.

 

Gideon: That’s Mayor Codd, remember?

 

Dave: Oops! Forgot.

 

Mayor Codd: Well, Dorsal Finn is a fishing town. It’s nearly two hundred years old and has a population of only five hundred people. There, I hope that’s useful. Now if you’ll excuse me?

 

Dave: Is that it?

 

Mayor Codd: Goodness me! Did I not mention my lunch engagement?

 

Dave: Yes, you did. But I thought you could maybe expand a little on Dorsal Finn’s controversial history.

 

Mayor Codd: I’m not too sure what you mean by that.

 

Dave: Some people would suggest that Dorsal Finn is a town with secrets.

 

Mayor Codd: If you are referring to the ramblings of that silly librarian, Agnes Clutterbuck, I can assure you; it is all nonsense! The Pontefract Family built this town out of the goodness of their hearts! I will not have another word said on the matter!

 

Dave: As a man of position and the overall spokesperson for the town, what can you tell me about Dorsal Finn’s traditions and customs? ‘The Fearsome Feast’, for example.

 

Mayor Codd: With heritage comes tradition, that’s what I say.

 

Dave: That’s a very good saying.

 

Mayor Codd: Indeed! Here in Dorsal Finn; we’re like one big family. We don’t hold with anything newfangled. That’s for the youngsters.

 

Dave: And ‘The Fearsome Feast’?

 

Mayor Codd: ‘The Fearsome Feast’ is as old as this town. You have to cook a dish that Vladimir Karloff, chief taster of Bramwell Hall, cannot eat. If you win then you get to stay at the hall, home of the Pontefract Family for nearly three hundred years.

 

Dave: Has anyone ever won ‘The Fearsome Feast’?

 

Mayor Codd: Good Heaven’s, no! Vladimir Karloff can eat anything. Which reminds me; I still have to go to my lunch engagement. So if you will be so kind as to be pushing off now, I would be very grateful.

 

Dave: Well thank you for your time, Mayor Codd. It’s been a pleasure.

 

Mayor Codd: And thank you, Mr Jeffery. Rest assured that the pleasure was all yours!

 

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Bramwell Hall, Dorsal Finn. Home of the Pontefract Family for nearly 300 years. Nothing sinister goes on there. Apparently.

 

 

The Lighthouse at Monument Point, Dorsal Finn. Absolutely

nothing odd going on here either.