Characters
- Slack Alice
- Apricot Lil, who works in the jam factory
- Pop-It-In-Pete, the postman ("The things I've had through my letterbox!")
- Self-Raising Fred, the baker
- Everard Farquharson, Larry's "close friend"
- Top-it-Up Ted, the petrol station attendant
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