This is a scene from a novel I hoped to get published. But I've moved on now and am writing another book which will be published in 2020. Watch this space!
I really like the scene, though. So I thought I'd let you read it, rather than having it fester on my laptop.
Enjoy! It's very much based on my personal experience, and it's a scene that's played out in real life in many, many classrooms across the country. And perhaps the world.
Setting: a secondary school classroom, England. Friday afternoon. Characters: an English teacher and her class
The pupils, as they did every
week at this time, drifted from all corners of the school, in spits and spots
like a gradual, hesitant build-up of rain.
They
seemed weary, as did their end-of-the-week uniforms, which drooped and slouched
on their bodies as if drained of life.Indeed, some of their blazers had died and slidden off their bodies like
thin corpses, hanging now from the ends of their fingers. Several pupils had
risked …
As if the supermarkets weren't stealing enough business as it is!
ReplyDeleteI'd have married you in the bread aisle... cos you're the best thing since sliced bread. ;-)
Crumbs!
DeleteYou're a 'natural', Fran. In comedy, you've either got it, or you waste a lot of time trying to convince others that it really is in there, somewhere. You have definitely got it, and I wish you every success.
ReplyDeleteThat's very kind, Mr H.
DeleteBrilliant !! But I've just discovered if I laugh too much , I end up with a stitch .
ReplyDeleteAnd now I'm off to the supermarket , doubled over , and sure to bring home something in vinegar .
Don't get in a pickle. Thanks for watching!
DeleteFabulous, and we loved Doreen and the Empty Nest too. Never knew there was a poetry club in Chipping Campden, feel so deprived, we used to live in Moreton in Marsh.
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martine
Hi Martine - The evening the Pickle Aisle Bride was filmed was part of the Chipping Campden Literature Festival Fringe. Creative Cows also run a regular comedy club. It's definitely a 'happening scene' I think is the way to describe it. Thanks for watching the videos.
DeleteYou have such fabulous comic timing and you look so young! Smooth skin, no double chin - ah, my lost youth.
ReplyDeleteLook so young! No double chin! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ... oops, slipped a disc laughing.
ReplyDeleteAgain, so fun to "see" you, Fran! Definitely forwarding to my punny uncle!
ReplyDeleteHope punny uncle enjoys. Thanks!
DeleteWhat a star, Fran. I loved the additional verses. It got funnier, and I agree, you are a natural.
ReplyDeleteThank you, kind sir. Oops, kind lady.
DeleteIf I'd married in the pickle aisle, perhaps I would have gotten divorced sooner or not married at all. I hate pickles and won't eat them. I'm also not too fond of Dr. X. With pickles all around, I would have run, and now I'd be having fun with a sugar cookie man from the bakery. My "serious" poems are such a bore compared to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
The world needs serious poets too, Janie, and I do a bit of that myself. You can't have everyone being trivial and shallow ...
DeleteI like this poem a lot - it has much appeal to my sense of humour. I blame my pun-full father.
ReplyDeleteThanks, wide eyed! Glad you enjoyed it. Pun-full fathers should be honoured for passing on joie de vivre, in my opinion.
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