In this PC world of ours this piece may draw fire.
The full title is “Overheard in an Orthodontist’s Waiting Room...”
It came from thinking about my friend Norrie, sometime bit-piece actor and thespian of that ilk, putting on his best Sean Connery accent.
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This is a parody of a meeting with a friend.
She too is smitten with the writing bug, and like me, she to is garrulous.
I have long since stopped competing!
I suspect many of my Readers who know her will spot her at once.
She has read this piece and has ‘forgiven’ me.
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A few years ago we fulfilled a long held wish to visit Spain’s Costa Verde (Green Coast).
It was a superb holiday. We really should go for another visit.
This area in the North West of Spain sits above Portugal and abuts France.
We spent two weeks on the Costa Verde, exploring Galacia, including a week in La Guardia.
Like their Catalonian cousins around Barcelona, the Galacians are fiercely proud and independent people with a distinctive culture and heritage.
And Galacians make wonderful energetic music! It sounds almost Scottish.
In this piece you may recognise a ‘certain gentleman’ who gets a panning.
The Ladies who Lunch are entirely fictional.
It came out as a sort of ‘script for a play’.
(It is 1200 words long, about 5 minutes reading.)
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This is a collection of mini-tales linked to our caravaning experiences.
I hope they may entertain and perhaps chime with other Caravanners and Campers.
(It is about 6,500 words taking about 30 minutes to read in one session, but you can dip and drop as you wish.)
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Granny Morag took her precocious grand-daughter Olivia to the Primary One ‘Induction Day’.
Here is the tale of what might have happened.
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This is a story which is true.
We were setting of to enjoy a wonderful holiday in Bedogno, with Pheona and David, at “Art Holidays in Italy”.
We had our friends Jim and Sheila in tow.
Being true Intrepids, they planned to do trekking and climbing, while we did Art and Sculpture.
It was on this holiday that I first realised how much creative writing had taken over my life!
There is a complementary story called “Lillias Rosa” which you might like to read.
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This is tale written while we were enjoying a wonderful holiday in Bedogno, Italy, with our friends Jim and Sheila. We stayed with Pheona and David at their villa, the base for “Art Holidays in Italy”
There is a complementary story called “Weigh to Go”, which you might like to read.
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This is a wee story that has its genesis in a visit to a coffee shop.
I was about to sit down when I saw what I thought was a ten pound note wrapped in something.
For an instance, I thought I had found a Lottery Ticket.
What I had actually ‘found’ was just a colourful receipt wrapped in another stiffer white card receipt.
A that point the story was born and I went straight home and tapped it out.
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This piece is for my long-suffering wife, the one who has to up-with put my perpetual witterings, which I labelled as C.E.V. in the story.
The idea for this story came from our friend Mana who has Millie, who is ‘a rescue dog with problems’.
Mana did consider getting a special collar for Millie to help control her from a distance, to modify her behaviour. I think it works by emitting a high-pitched sound, above the range of the human ear but still audible to the dog.
Another friend Mary, (I once met a girl called Maria), was kind enough to say that it is not just men like Gianni who suffer from this C.E.V.problem, and that some women she knew should also be given this new “Special Treatment”.
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This one was written in response to a Writers’ Circus challenge:
“Write something about Christmas or on a Christmas theme, please.”
I had to apologise when I presented it because it is not really a Christmas Story,
A few readers did not quite latch on to the idea that what they were reading was one half of a web-chat between Zalinda@ and Gianni Bontroni.
I hope you like it.
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