Aurora: Blog

This started out as a very short story but like Topsy it just growed. And it changed too. But that often happens to me, or my characters who are an unruly lot and generally want to do their own thing and to hell with the author. Actually it could have gone on, but I don't think any more would have helped. It's a bit like soaps on television, they start off with a believable story line and gradually become more and more hysterical in an attempt to keep going. And we don't want that do we? End on a high note and get the hell out of it.

Free lunch started out as a sort of fantasy and I suppose it still is, but romance or something reared its head. When I set out writing I intended that every story would be different but many of the more recent ones seem to have become variations on a theme. Must do better. The other curious thing is that the less sex I put in the more people seem to like them. Have I said that before? Have I wondered if I write bout sex incredibly badly. Probably.

Lots of feedback to which I have replied, much of it on scores. My blog was a bit tongue in cheek but it's funny that every time scores are mentioned there is a storm of comment. I don't actually take a lot of notice of them, if I am reading I don't even bother to look at them. I'd just get rid of them except that they do generate correspondence which is often fun!

I got the idea for this when I was tidying up the front hedge which is at least as bad as the story says. I did see a young mum who smiled at me aa year or so back and this is the result. I don't understand it either, I think I am going soft in my dotage.
Now, can I just ask about US arithmetic teaching (we only call the difficult stuff mathematics). If I have votes between 7 and 9 and they are averaged - add them up and divide by the number of them, how the **** does it come out at 6.95?

This story is based on something I read as a child. It came back to me the other day after probably sixty years. Is the brain amazing or am I losing it? Hmm. Obviously the original was suitable for children which this isn't.