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just a portakabin maybe, till we can find a proper building?

Funny, I have to read very carefully to know whether you are talking about Richard or Master SmallPrint...

sorry Phoenix. I talk to Mr Small like that too and just expect him to know where my train of thought set off from and at what station it arrived at.

Strangely I wouldn't mind him being with someone young and attractive, it's not like he's waiting for me to turn up

I know but I live in hope am clearly a bit of a sad case

I also thought it was Mr A who was looking peaky. Mind you, imagine if ypu had him spreadeagled on a beanbag on your office floor

Oh I live in hope Spiro but I guess I'm more resigned to the truth .

And may I just say, if our man were lounging on a beanbag on my floor, he would not be reading and I would not be on MN.

Spiro, I read your extra chapters, you really are excellent at this writing business! Unfortunately I read way too fast so everytime you post a chapter I read it in approx 4 seconds and then I'm left waiting for more. Bit like a dog with it's dinner.

ROFL! I thought you might say that

I can only assume my imagination is running away with me because he is probably the only 'sleb' I've ever fancied that is a) straight b) single and c) UK based (as far as we know and usually anyway).

The alternative (which I am not willing to contemplate) is that I'm having a premature mid-life crisis!

premature?

Joke!

Afternoon ladies, lots to reply to but will have to wait until the sprogs are in bed. TwigBoy is being a nightmare and currently tantruming because his yoghurt is the wrong flavour. Just had to quickly and how much I loved the latest No More Ghosts chapters! I didn't expect the locket to be for Lisa - that was gorgeous!

Back later.

Right. finally got the chance to have a good read.
I really like the way the charcter of Lisa has been developed, Spiro, very teenagery-ish but different in her own way, as you'd expect she'd be, given the life she's had.

JS as always a complete and utter honey. It makes me go all gooey inside when I see how nice he is. And is anyone else imagining the Voice, saying his words?

Another tour de force Spiro.

And, er, more when you're ready

Am halfway through the next chapter but had to stop for the school run. Broke off 20 minutes early as had come to a natural stopping point and was pacing the kitchen until I had to leave, but knew there was no point going back to it at that stage. Hopefully will get some more done tonight.

Remind me how many chapters there are, Spiro?

I haven't read the latest two chapters Spiro but ibsaw that they have arrived.

I hope writing this fic is getting your creative juices flowing again...

3 more chapters & an epilogue, Twigs (although I think I've already ended up with an extra one so that may change).

Phoenix I feel like a different person since I've started writing again. Fanfic may not be the most 'high falutin' genre, but it's a lot of fun and a lovely way to ease my way back into it. Sparky's will be the last one for a while though, as I'm almost ready to start work on my novel now.

Oh wow, you are going to write a novel?! That's amazing! Do you have a plan for it yet or just know that you want to write one? I always thought I would be a writer, whether it was for a hobby or a job* but I don't write at all now. I was very good at it at school and was always little-miss-top-of-the-class for English Lit. & Lang. O levels but then it came to A levels and I turned out to be quite average which was a nasty shock :)

• I was actaully thinking of studying journalism, like you, Spiro (at Harlow) but went to work straight at the Beeb instead.

Anyway, I would love to write some fanfic one day but reading stuff as great as yours makes me already emabraassed at how rubbish mine would be :)

SMFV continues to spread - Tufty the Squirrel is on his way from that nice Mr eBay....

Stop, look, listen...

In the meantime I was doing hospital radio and constantly looking at BBC training programmes on Ceefax (!) But they never seemed to have one that I would qualify for.

I actually wanted to study multi-media journalism at Bournemouth but my predicted grades fell short of what they wanted. I got more than I'd have needed in the end, but stupidly was too desperate to be in the 'real world' to wait a year and reapply . 'Tis one of about 3 life choices I've made that I kick myself about on a regular basis!

Tufty arrived at my house this morning. All evidence of its arrival has been destroyed and it has been stashed ready for viewing (avec prosecco & twiglets possibly) on Friday night when him indoors will be out.

No sign of Maud today - hope Garden Girl is alright?

How come you all did englishy type courses?? I feel like an outcast

@ Tufty rhe squirrel. We do have our own language don't we?

Twigs, why not try writing again, you can do it just for your own pleasure, if you prefer. But it is a lot of fun, as I'm sure Spiro will tell you.

I always wanted to be writer right back from the age I could read, and every so often I keep having a go and getting nowhere. I don't really care any more, as long as I'm enjoying myself.

Someone said you have to write a million words before you have a chance of being any good, so maybe I am still working my way towards that

Small - I didn't do anything remotely Englishy at university. In fact, with all the wisdom that a 17 year old can muster (ahem) I thought that English degrees were a waste of time on the grounds that anyone can read a novel so why hand out certificates for it - something of which I often remind the Bloke (BA Eng Lit).

::Joins Small in the outcast corner::

Spiro - Thanks for asking about the Girl. She is alright-ish but remains a mystery to medical science, as the doctors still can't decide what is/was wrong with her.

And now, please, raise your glasses and join me in a toast to The Hobbity Beard. Gone but not forgotten.

::sniff::

You surprise me Maud, you seem very well read but you are welcome in my little corner .

How odd about Garden Girl, have they no clue? What is the next step? did you manage to get wee in the pot without war or spillage

. The beard is dead, long live the beard.

Tufty? Oh well..

Cheers! Farewell to the beard, for now..but I am assuming that a beard of some kind will be back sooner or later.

Maybe said Hobbity beard will be back at a later date -- with reinforcements

Maud, I am glad to hear your young lady is better. maybe it was Just One of Those Things. I remember one of the Superboys' face swelling up like a balloon on one side one day, very alarming to look at. And then it went away, never to return. Goodness knows what it was.

I hope that beard won't be coming back Massive

It is a bit too reminiscent of Lear's Old Man With a Beard, I have to say, Small.