Well met

I don’t know how you feel about coincidence but over the years I’ve grown to wonder if there really is such a thing, especially after watching a thing about Einstein’s problem and how two particles from the same source yet distances apart, develop the same characteristics when they are looked at. I didn’t really understand it but it set me thinking that maybe we are joined in some way we don’t realise or understand. It suggests a science fiction tale but its not really my genre. However, it reminded me that despite coming from entirely different backgrounds and living thirty miles apart, in the days before WW1 my wife’s uncle bought pigs from my grandfather. The initial link came through a miner from Gramp’s village moving to work for my wife’s grandad as a gardener and goes on from there. What I am going to do is to make it a family saga but in a series of short stories as it would play out in real life. In a way, it has started with the story in the website called Bedsheets and Broomsticks. Now that I’ve written that I’m quite excited about the project. I’ve always written things like this in strict sequence, Shadows in the Veldt followed King and Kaiser and The Colonel’s ducks at Oakhaven follows on from Welcome to Oakhaven but I remember that in the first Hornblower I read, he was already a captain and his early history only came out later, so there is a precedent for flitting back and forth.

The picture is one of our favourite courting walks.
Tete a Tete