The “Ghosts etc” title was suggested as a challenge by the lady who sparked “Hook, Lin and Sinker!” into existence. She set it was the title for a story-writing challenge aimed at seven-year-olds and under, as I recall.
Francesca, my wonderful and long-suffering insegnate di Italioano, had recently had a baby, Julia Ailsa.
Although it was written for Julia, then aged around six months, it was really for her Mamma.
A few weeks later, Francesca told me that when Julia was a few months old she would often lie happily awake, gurgling and looking up at the ceiling of her nursery, staring at a particular corner, and seemed to be ‘seeing’ something or someone up there that no one else could see. Answers on a postcard please.
I still have a notion to write a story called The Girl in the Grey Bonnet.