Blog 96 – A Cremation, A Christening and A Wedding … MS Paige Turner will be giving a free 1000 word assessment for the first person emailing with the correct answers. Read on …
A cremation, a christening and a wedding. All in one week. My white car was cremated. It would have been twenty years old this Christmas. I took my mother everywhere in it. Miss Trial grew up in it. The white Westie was delivered and despatched in it. I got a hundred quid for it just after I had put fifty quid’s worth of petrol in it. It was clunky and I know I lack adventure but I loved it and it has now gone to the Great Ford Factory in the Sky.
I have a new Mazda. I drove it very carefully down to the first Creative Ink class of the academic year. When I opened the boot with one of those keys that clicks doors open like magic I discovered that I had spilt a whole bottle of milk. Mister Justin Case was not happy. He arrived on the click to vacuum the new boot as he told me the smell of milk could permeate for the next twenty years. He also delivered a fresh bottle of milk. (The milk is for the free coffee writers get. Second cup is 20p.)
When I started my Masters in Creative Writing at Cambridge Mister Justin case checked out the fees and said, “How much??????” And then he asked me, “Wouldn’t you prefer a new car?”
“Oooh, no,” I said. “I’d much prefer two years of study and learning to get into all sorts of university research sites with lost ID numbers and passwords scatter gunned all over my creative notebooks. Think of all the new things I will learn.” But actually, actually, this new little Mazda is rather nifty and well christened with semi-skinned.
And then there was a Blackberry Wedding this week. Miss Jessberry www.spotlight.mts.co.uk got married to the lovely ruffle-headed Mister Cox. Lots of actors who had performed in ‘Blackberry Promises’ attended. ‘Blackberry Promises’ was my first play published by New Theatre Publications, performed on the London Fringe with the novel by the same name selling well on Amazon.
If anyone can email into this blog and say which part Jessberry played and what you think the colour of my new nifty Mazda is, then there’s a free assessment of 1000 words going.
So there we are. A Cremation, A Christening and A Wedding – all finished off with seeing Tennessee Williams’s ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ this week. I always feel like having a cool shower when I’ve seen one of his plays, don’t you?
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A Cremation, A Christening and A Wedding …
20/09/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
I appear not to have migrated to your new blog as I had thought. I have now packed my bags and caught the boat across the Cyber Sea and landed safely at your portal.
As to your Mazda … colour? Would it be too,too much of a delight to image it is purple. Am I on a promise for that answer?
Purple prose, Phillip? Never. I’m the unadventurous sort – so same colour as I had for 20 years. Not like you: crossing cyber seas. I wondered what had happened to you but failed to send out a search party.