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"You all right?" she asks, not really listening to whatever grunt he makes in acknowledgement. His stubble has got tidied up, his neck shaved so that it all looks like a halfway respectable beard. He's wearing a grey suit with a darker grey button-up she's never seen before, but it doesn't look fresh, exactly. It almost seems like—
"No," she says, suspicion growing along with her grin as she watches him blush. It's a comprehensive one: starts at his neck — more visible now — and goes clear up to his hairline. His very messy hairline, even messier than usual. "Really?"
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- Part 2 of The Shipping Forecast
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19 May 2026
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Ellie pulls him in and squeezes him tight, just for a second, not even long enough for his shoulders to lower. She daren’t. Because it’s too right, and if she holds on any longer she’ll have to wonder why it is.
In which Hardy and Miller slowly come to realise what everyone else already knows. Featuring the ever dependable Hardy 'Nah', Ellie Miller being just the best mess in the world, and people covering each other with blankets. Set after show.
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29 Jan 2026
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Trent Crimm might only recently be an independent journalist, but he's had no one to rely on but himself for far, far longer. And most days, it feels like he's barely keeping it together. So it only seems fitting that the conclusion to the worst period of his life is for the whole thing to go up in literal flames.
Luckily for Trent, help comes from a (not so) unexpected source.
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27 Dec 2025
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Trent is writing a book, so he's in the room, generally, whilst [AFC Richmond's magical season] fucking happens.
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30 Nov 2025
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Ted likes to talk. Trent likes to listen.
This works out wonderfully for all parties involved.
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24 Oct 2025