I laughed out loud at the thought of a witch's coven and spells and my friend Marion who had just bought a house in a lovely part of Wirral known as Rock Park, full of large houses and beautiful gardens which had a certain splendour about them.
It was a sunny April day my friend Marion and hubby Peter and me had been busy packing up the old house and unpacking in the new one which was in fact newer than 212 Rock Park villas.
Three large rooms downstairs and a seperate kitchen larder. The upstairs was really grand: two master bedrooms, two guest bedrooms nursery and playroom plus two bathrooms shower room and ensuite. Not to mention an attic, very well established, and as if it couldn't get any better a lovely summerhouse in at the bottomn of a splendidly landscaped garden.
Suddenly the sky darkened and the heavens opened throwing down a merciless April shower - no a deluge. I was in the middle of carrying a tea set and as I ran indoors I slipped and dropped the beautiful blue wedgewood teaset.
Throwing myself down I attempted to gather up the pieces when I heard Marion scream. She screamed again then appeared saying:
'Someone pulled my hair!'
I was a bit unsure how to reply to her.
'This house is haunted,' she gulped.
'Haunted?' I said.
'Yes! I know what I felt.'
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Hi Margaret
ReplyDeletethanks for all the discussion during the last workshop. I really enjoyed what you were saying about the different ways we could use our stories to portray the area, and about how to wanted to use your story to show people from outside of The Wirral what a wonderful place it is to live. I'm really looking forward to reading the edited versions of your stories to see how you do that.
Hope you had a nice weekend! I will see you soon
Jenn
New houses are really interesting psychologically speaking. There is that knowledge that someone else has been there before you, someone not too unlike you but also very 'other' and that can do so many things. As a skeptic (because I've never experienced that sort of thing) I read this differently I suppose than many would.
ReplyDeleteThere is, to me, a definite sense of unrest in what is otherwise described as a wonderful house. That is also captured by the landscape as it begins raining, which is always a good trick to further develop an ominous scene.
i like your story even when you move into a modern house you wonder what went on befor and who lived their , i hope i sleep tonight Margaret
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ReplyDeleteI've just had another look at your map - I think it's great you've got something like that on here already, and I'm glad you got the name changed on your blog. Jensen's got a knack of making tricky things seem easier, hasn't he?
Can't wait to go on the tour next week, and of course to read your story about the plague of Ladybirds!
Hi Margaret,
ReplyDeleteYour blog's looking great. Well done for getting the map on there! I've been looking on the internet and found some forums where people have been talking about the ladybird plague of '76 that you mentioned yesterday here: http://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=220826
and here: http://www.hoylakejunction.com/hoylake-baths
(to look at them copy the web addresses and paste into the address bar on your page - if they you're not sure how to do this we can have a look at them next week and maybe link to them from your bog)
Going onto the wordpress site has given me all the groups comments. This will help me thanks.
ReplyDeletegot some good ideas for my story,hope everyone is well looking forward to seeing you all again,good luck jen hope all is ok.
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