Again I thank everyone for the kind emails concerning Ted and Stella. I'll try to find time to reply to them during the next few days or so.
However it appears that some readers have mistaken the posting for the "new yarn" I mentioned -- probably prematurely -- a couple of weeks ago.
90% of the two recently posted chapters were in fact written many many months ago, but I thought that it just wasn't working. I knew that something was wrong, I just didn't know what. In fact the only problem was, that some idiot had written the individual scenes in the wrong damned order. Once the penny finally dropped in my dumb brain a little "cut and pasting" led to the chapters being ready for posting after adding just a few lines of text.
My apologies for the delay in posting the new yarn, I hope that it will appear soon. However it is a much longer yarn/novel, stretching to roughly 11 chapters +. At this time three chapters have been returned by the proofreaders, but I have a rule not to post any chapters until they have all been proofread. I've found people get upset when the chapters do not appear on the sites regularly.
Having a guest here, has been great fun. However very tiring for me and more probably more than a little boring for Papatoad. However we both thank everyone for their kind wishes.
And yes, I have tried to talk the bugger into posting some more yarns of his own.
DC