An Afternoon by the Seaside

"Are you not coming in?" A male voice called, "the water's lovely!" "You are crazy, it's Scarborough not Margarita." Answered the girl. "Don't be a stick in the mud, people swim in the North Sea." "Only if they fell off a boat," the girl retorted. Grenville checked his photo, it was definitely her. She was very young, …

Share Your World 28th August 2017

What would constitute a “perfect” day for you? Ahhh I somehow doubt my perfect day bares any relation to the one in Lou Reed's famous song (the one which the beeb did a big cover of with a host of celebs. I guess no one told them it was about being smashed off your face …

The Holmes House of Horror

Visceral That is a term often banded about when talking about the Doctor Who screenplays written and/or script edited by Robert Holmes. Often his stories would involve some kind of body horror inflicted upon a character. The Ark in Space (1975) has the character of Lazar (nicknamed Noah) infected by the larvee of a alien …

Share Your World- Emilio style

Have you ever been pulled over by a cop? Once. It must have been nearly ten years ago and it was after a friend and his then partner's joint birthday celebration at TinTin's. TinTin's was an all you can eat Chinese Restaurant in Donnington and sadly was not run by a impetuous young reporter with a …

The Singing Sandman

There is something a little up with my plates of meat, and for those of you who aren't familiar with cockney rhyming slang Plates of Meat= Feet, as I seem to be getting incredibly itchy feet and they are getting very sweaty a lot of the time. Seems highly localised to my feet so I …

A Fish Supper

"This is rather unusual is it not?" Mused Dr. Webster as he escorted Arthur down the corridor to the morgue. "A pathologist going through the results of a post mortem with a government operative?" Smiled Arthur, "incredibly." The good doctor smiled and opened the door and crossed to the table where the cadaver lay. "Robert …

Bits n Bobs

After a small break from the live music scene for various reasons, namely distance and road works, Sunday marked my return to the Chicago Swing Katz in Meole Brace. Now in the mean time the Brooklands has under gone a change of management/owner ship and to ring in the changes a new name has been …

Extract from the Uxbridge English Dictionary

Willy-Nilly: Term used to described a man who was reading a hardback copy of Les Miserables in the bath and shut the book too fast. Daily Prompt: Willy-Nilly

Share Your World 14th August 2017

When you leave a room, do you turn the lights off behind you or keep the lights on throughout your house most of the time? It depends purely on how on return times to the room, if I am going to be returning to the room I've left (say to put the kettle on, syphon …

A Public House Ponder

Now, here's a thought for you; a friend recently commented on my frequent use of pubs/bars/cafes when writing and the question was why these locations. Now my reasoning is that they are good focal points for characters to chat, also its a good point where characters from random walks of life would meet wheras in …