Harry Smith is the faithful but dimwitted assistant to Colin Blaze. Some say Harry’s mind is tuned to simple ideas that smart people overlook. Others suggest that Harry’s mind moves too slowly for complex thoughts. Whatever the truth, Harry appears to live in a different kinder world. Be the client a yeti, a space alien, a ghost, a wizard, or a pair of time travellers, to Harry, they are just people and should be offered a nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Harry is kind, happy to help, and has a uniquely simple perspective that sometimes inspires others to see things slightly differently.

Harry always did seem impervious to the strange goings-on around him. One overcast Tuesday, he set out to buy a box of tea and a pint of milk for the office. This just so happened to take place during a mostly unobserved and short-lived invasion from space.

After it was all over, all Harry would say on the matter was three things – it was jolly shocking that it took two hours to pop to the shop, he was annoyed he did not think to pick up a packet of hobnobs, and Susan Miles probably should not be allowed to keep an unregistered minigun.

Will someone please tell us the story of that odd day?

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