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Please go outside now and scream this as loud as you can…
I think I’ll just go outside and scream……
Er… don’t mention me when you get arrested…
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Thanks for the read! Roxie.
You are very welcome Roxie!
Hm… Lynx eh?
*quietly watches from a safe distance.. because we all know the power and allure of Lynx** yup.
Have you been tricked too Dave?!
Regularly – I’m a total sucker…
so.,. I went outside and screamed as loud as I usually do.. pissing the neighbours off .. again.. then I suddenly realised, you had requested a particular something to be screamed out loudly.. not just random banshee-like screeching for the sheer pleasure of it.. life’s pretty straight without a twisty…… *wanders off quietly**
Gosh, I hope I don’t get in trouble with the Writing Police by getting people all over the world to go out and scream stuff… I’ll have to compose a little legal disclaimer to add to my posts…
well, where would the fun be in that Mr Whatt??
I was in the city at night with my 2 daughters.. we walked past all these alleyways with small restaurants and cafes crammed against the walls.. very multicultural feel to it.. anyway.. I suggested to my precious girls that we run down one of them.. while looking back over our shoulders.. pointing behind us.. and yelling.. ‘SHE DID IT’… I was quite surprised at the number of people peering down the alleyway behind us.. waiting to see the ..She that did it..
I know.. probably not the most responsible and mature behaviour one expects from a woman with teenagers.. but they’re very good at making sure I don’t hurt myself or small animals when being randomly irresponsible. And they know exactly how to keep me in check.. it’s all in the inflections!
A bientot mon ami.
Mm… I suppose I’m what you might call an unadventurous sort of surrealist – outsider – ne’er-do-well, I get other people to do my high-jinx for me, whilst I sit indoors watching bad television…
Your ‘She did it!’ story: Did the group of you nip into a doorway afterwards and erupt with stifled giggles and blushes? You ARE a good mum!
when we came to the end of the alleyway.. noticing people’s head leaning to the side looking down.. waiting.. the three of us turned to each other.. and high-fived each other loud and proud! When they were little.. I would watch them interacting with people.. and thought.. ‘hmmm. they’ll either rule the world.. or destroy it.’ (smiling) they’re quite magnificent.. despite who raised them (me).. even if they weren’t my daughters.. I would still crave their company ..to watch them become the women they are.. has been a wonderful journey so far.. I am truly blessed. I have 4 children… the boys are 25 and 20.. my girls are 17 and 16. I don’t regret a moment spent with them.
I don’t watch TV much at all.. I prefer annoying people on the internet..
Dear Grokker,
Yesterday slouching around town, I popped into Waterstone’s bookshop to see if they had ‘Stranger in a S L’ on the shelves. I think I read it years ago, and thought that I might again. No luck though – I might order it.
Well Sloucher.. if you have trouble finding a copy at all.. I would be more than happy to send you a copy from here ..(for the prevention of more invasive stalking activity, a random unknown address is fine.. as long as you know where it is to collect it !! (smiles)
I have a vast library (I love to read and collect books).. I have some very old classics .. some pre-1900.. Classic poetry, Browning, Wordsworth, Rupert Brookes, etc,m The complete collection of Bernard Shaw’s Plays.. French Poet Charles Baudelaire..von Goethe, Assimov, Tolstoy etc., the there’s my more modern stuff.. Stephen King and the Dark Towers Collection, Michael Crichton, oh the list is endless (in the hundreds) and very eclectic.. like my life in general. One day, I will find the perfect home. .where there is room that is called The Library.. like in those old movies .. wall to wall books .. Just me and my books..a comfortable sofa, a table for my glass of Merlot.. and a door with a very strong lock ..to keep the world from invading my sanctuary.
One day…………………
My Dear YM,
Oh, I’m sure I can find a copy of S in a SL.
I imagine you in a house made of books with you sneaking in and out through your Tolstoy tunnel.
How about Gogol? – I only discovered him last year – he seems a hundred years ahead of his time!
Merlot… I thought that you’d be on the old absinthe…
Ummm.. tunnels eh? I’m not that keen on dark, enclosed spaces that lack …space..
Oh, I’ve had my moments of absinthe.. some wonderfully enlightening.. others, well the memories have a few holes in them that I cannot, for the life of me.. find those missing pieces! (smiles)
I shall have a look around for Nikolai on my next jaunt into my favourite little store of all things pre-owned and loved.. and for sale! I don’t know why the one titled Dead Souls automatically appealed to me… Is there one in particular that you might recommend?
it’s is now 6.30am.. and time for breakfast!
A bientot
oh Lord.. typos! ((puts down the bourbon))….Oh the Pedantic Vonni just had a little meltdown.. please excuse me while I go find something to clean up the mess………………….