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Stuart Ayris - The Truth About Trees
Thank you Vic! I will definitely check out Skallagrig. I must say I haven't heard of it which is great. I do love new finds. And you may just have saved me from descending once more into Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. Wonderful though it is it does often create a little havoc with my already chaotic existence!
Hello StuartI write to you at 10.23 am on Saturday. It is 9.23 pm on Friday for you.
Until you get your hands on Skallagrig, there is always a certain walking book.
Just been taking photographs on the beach here for the cover of one of my upcoming books "Swim the Atlantic".
Time is very strange - especially in Tollesbury!! (someone will write a book about it one day...)I do have that certain walking book and it is my next Kindle for PC read! Skallagrig will be my bedtime in bed read!
As Matthew Kelly would say - "Good man yourself!"
I know - will get it on payday though!
Just to let you know I've just started an Author Page on Facebook where I will be putting writing kind of stuff! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stuart...
i've liked it Stuart
Thank you! Thinking of using it for The Bird That Nobody Sees stuff!
Well, first nine chapters of The Bird That Nobody Sees now written - 21,178 words. Looking at 74,000 words in total so good progress is being made!!
I need a huge favour! Could anyone who has been kind enough to put a review on Amazon of Tollesbury Time Forever and have used the name Simon Gregory in the description please alter it to Simon Anthony or leave the surname off all together? Long story which I'll explain in time!! Thank you!
I just saw your post on Facebook, Stu.I think I may know why...
Funny, cos I only mentioned that the other day didn't I Patti?
Unbelievable coincidence but one that needs rectifying. He's a really nice man but as people in the village have got to read the book so some people think incredibly that it's a true story - and he's getting a bit of unfair stick - so SIMON ANTHONY has been born!
Do you know what I have had in my head since I saw your first post tonight on Facebook? 'will the real slim shady please stand up' (but replace slim shady with Simon Gregory!!!) wouldn't mind so much but it is literally just that line of the song going round and round, don't know the rest!!!
Long live Simon Anthony!Send our regards to Simon Gregory, Stu.
Little did I know Rebecca has been walking our dog with him and his dog more or less every morning for the last couple of years! Just didn't know his surname!
Stuart wrote: "You are funny!"Funny weird or.....? Nope, don't answer that!!
Teehee!!! I have 'issues' :-), just ask Ian, the poor bugger had to listen to them on Friday when we went for coffee!!!!!I am ok with being a bit weird though, who wants to be normal eh?
The more I'm writing my new book the weirder I realise I'm becoming - and I love it!
Pffft. No such thing as normal. Thank goodness.
We are all in very good company then!!!
Here's the latest mad part from my new mad book!Whilst Liz sat on the park bench waiting for Brando to explain why he had accosted her so Eryn Rose had Rod finally within her sights. She was swinging on her new favourite swing when she saw her diminutive quarry stumble out of the door of the block of flats to her left. She watched as he tried to regain his cool and she smiled as she leapt from the swing when it was at its wowest highest point. She stretched her arms out wide, bowed to an invisible audience and skipped into the street.
Eryn's singing was always a little louder than she knew. And she just loved to sing to herself, particularly when the days were long and bright. The tingaling notes that swayed from her pretty red mouth blended with the summer air as if they were tickling the very sky itself. And so light were her feet upon the ground that it was her gentle sing songing that caused Rod to stop and turn.
Wow! Love it :-) maybe I just need to channel my weird/mad. You do it so well with your writing, i should perhaps go back to doing some art (I used to be very good, bit rusty now though) or photography (and not just happy snaps of shop fronts, my real photography - have a look in my albums on Facebook at the Rally School pics, quite proud of them!)
Weird mustn't be channelled but embraced!! Hold it close, sqeeze up the squeezings and let it take you over!!! (Like this wine is me...)
Thank you Patti! It's all about how it sounds, not if they're real words!
Yeah I find myself reading your books aloud to myself quite frequently to get the full effect of the words.
Just to prove to you that I was/am a photographer too, here is the Rally School pics I was talking about https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s.... Let me know what you think x
Cheers Patti - I've got the confidence now to just write how I like which is nice - here's one of my favourite parts so far...And the albatross, well it dances – my god does it dance! It preens and it points and it calls and it stares and it clacks and it absolutely hootly dootly bedazzles this entire world. Yet who of us can say we have seen it? Who of us has witnessed this bird that nobody sees?
Whilst in the air the albatross is the wonder of all wonderments, yet on land it is but a clumsy fool, stiggering and staggering and tripping over its own befuddled feet. In the air it just catches the donovan wind and it is the sweet troubled fingers of Peter Green. It SOARS and CORS and it whispers to the heavens from the depths of its beatings – it is magnificent.
Stuart wrote: "Cheers Patti - I've got the confidence now to just write how I like which is nice - here's one of my favourite parts so far...And the albatross, well it dances – my god does it dance! It preens a..."
Wow! Now stop teasing and carry on writing, so mean ;-) xx
Sweet troubled fingers of Peter Green.Just wow. You throughly rock Stuart Ayris.
Emma is a peach! wrote: "Just to prove to you that I was/am a photographer too, here is the Rally School pics I was talking about https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s.... Let me know wh..."You could get work on top gear.
Well thank you Patty Perky Pineapple!
I've got to listen to Blues for Greenie now.
Patti (Perky Pineapple) wrote: "Emma is a peach! wrote: "Just to prove to you that I was/am a photographer too, here is the Rally School pics I was talking about https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s......"Hmm thanks Patti!! They Are good but not Top Gear good!!! :-)
Wow Stuart - that so reminds me of one of my favourite poems - Gerald Manley Hopkins - That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire! The way you use words is wonderful.
Thank you Gingerlilly. Although I'm not sure Gerald would have come out with the bit I've just written..."First?" queried Rod. "Are you sure?"
"You've got your own cue, haven't you?" said Dave, nodding down at what was now most definitely a piece of wood with chalk on the end.
"Yeah, but first. I've not even had time to warm up."
"Nor have those fuckers. Do you really think Glyn would be smiling at them if he wasn't serving them some out of date shit that wasn't going to send them to the bogs quicker than George Michael on a promise? You'll be fine mate. Just take your time. You know what you're doing. And so does Glyn..."
It's turning out to be quite a unique book I think - I'm genuinely loving writing it!
I just started A Cleansing of Souls I'm enjoying it so far and some of the turns of phrase are just delectable.
Excellent choice of descriptive word there, Jud.
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Gay has just read "Tollesbury" and enjoyed it as much as I did. While commenting on your ability to get inside the head of the afflicted, she wondered if you have read "Skallagrig" by William Horwoood.
If not, this is something you really must read. And that goes for anybody else reading this. :-) It is a wonderful book. Horwood is best known for anthropomorphic books such as "Duncton Wood", but "Skallagrig" is his masterpiece. I believe his daughter suffered from cerebral palsy. Judging by the book, he must have done a Vulcan mind-meld with her, to know exactly what was going on inside her head.
"Skallagrig" is a slow starter but stick with it - it is magnificent. Rather like your own works - in the magnificence department, I mean, not the slow starting!