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round about this time of the year you will start to notice large amounts of small flat white objects washed up on
the islands beaches. The islanders will assure you that they are nothing more than cuttlefish bones and they will even go to the lengths of placing the odd dead cuttlefish on the beaches in order to persuade us, and avoid any further awkward questions. However my spies have discovered the truth behind this 
mystery which the islanders would much rather us overners and grockles knew nothing about, that they are in actual fact discarded squirrels surfboards.
Contrary to that which we have been led to believe there are in fact plenty of red squirrels living on the mainland and around about this time of the year they tend to get an irresistible urge to head
over en masse to the island in order to while away the summer months in such pleasant and tranquil surroundings. This being an exclusive red squirrel stronghold they can be free of their grey cousins throughout the summer as it so happens that the grey squirrels are lousy surfers and the reds are quite excellent in that department. Therefore on arrival having successfully negotiated 
the Solent, and feeling a bit cream crackered, the squrfers abandon their squrfboards on the beaches and wearily head off to establish their summer quarters and reacquaint themselves with their many old friends and 
acquaintances who choose to live on the island all the year round. The resident island squirrels aren’t quite so pleased with the arrangement however and group together whilst rather begrudgingly referring to the recently arrived multitude of mainland squrfers as the overners.
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