Blog 33 – Visiting the Underworld or The Importance of Tight Foundations …

Blog 33 – Visiting the Underworld – or the Importance of Tight Foundations …Ms Paige Turner tells a porkie pie on each blog – you can win a Creative Ink free taster session on a Tuesday – Tuesday writers exempting …if you guess correctly …

When I saw some of the Bull Rushes of the forthcoming Creative Ink film: Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ I said to Master Brylcream (our technical director), “Who is that old crab who looks as though she has crawled from under the sea bed?”
“Oh, Jan,” Master Brylcream sighed, eating one of my cocktail sausages, “it’s the way I light you. You’re a character actress and Emma did so well to create your wrinkles.”
How sweet is that? (I notice the young ones start their sentences with this word ‘how’.)
I had a similar experience at Rigby and Pelman’s who sell the Queen her brassieres. I bought three of the latter. It’s a new experience for me as I usually buy brassieres in South Africa’s Woolworths who sell them to me for 20 Rand (two quid) if they can’t find the price tag. Anyhow, I’m off piste. I decided to buy two swim suits in the sale as it was, ‘Buy one at half price and get the second free’. How what a bargain is that, I asked Mr Justin Case who rolled his eyes upward.
Anyway, Rowan said to me, “Are you a size ten?” Actually, at this point her eyes did slip downward to my ample hips. I laughed. “I think you had better fetch me a size 12,” I said. Ha, ha, ha. And so she did – with a cup of coffee., which Miss Trial, my daughter, proceeded to drink. She’d had a hard day in front of the jury who was out. You don’t get that kind of coffee service in SA’s Woolies. Well, the size 12s didn’t fit me but I got a great deal on two size 14s and I’ve just returned from having a good swim in one of them. It just goes to show the Importance of Tight Foundations – which was the title of my first blog. It’s such a relief to get back to where I started.
Flashback to the Bull Rushes. My future son-in-law, Master Mind looked wonderful. He was chosen for the part as a result of his utter look of confusion. It helped that he was having to react to me as Master Mind does sometimes look at me with utter confusion so well. I said, “My future son-in-law is so good looking.”
“Yes,” Master Brylcream said. “He is. He is very good looking indeed.” And then after another cocktail sausage, Master Brylcream said, “Of course it’s the way I light him.”

Creative Ink for Writers’ Book class on a Thursday morning has a waiting list but there are two places left on Tuesday’s Get Inspired – so anyone can come to a free taster if you check with Paige Turner first.