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PatB
Sitting thinking like that as you crochet will soon solve your names and things and oh how I wish we could have some of your weather. My hands are killing me working in -15c weather out in the snow room where I'm working on a door installation.
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 8, 2015 at 7:04 PM
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For some reason "Picnic in Neosho" grabs me.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 8, 2015 at 6:38 PM
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It is wonderful how a writer can sit doing something they are so familiar with that the mind can wander and in pop story lines. I am thinking your characters would certainly have been involved with WW1 in some way. Those book titles don't do it for me....
posted by
Kabu
on February 8, 2015 at 10:22 AM
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I suppose there is plenty of time between the wars Pat. I don't think there were many cars on the road before the first war. My Mum told me she had a ride in an Austin 7
that was about 1926 it tipped over going around a bend some men on an allotment pulled the driver out and then said in amazement, look thur's another one in thur.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 8, 2015 at 7:38 AM
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A central theme, especially if wars are worked into it, seems to be SCARS.
posted by
Ciel
on February 8, 2015 at 7:16 AM
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Pat
As I read this (as always interesting) and came to that bit about the war, I said 'Oops' out loud! I simply didn't realize the Katie and Simon saga was playing while there was another WW raging! I hadn't thought about it at all, but if someone had asked my opinion I might have said the period was that of the early to mid-thirties!
But your instinct here is absolutely correct - if this is the forties, the war must be given its due, as it were, and more than a nod...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 8, 2015 at 5:51 AM
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Nostalgia seems to be visiting many of us - is it the weather, do you think? I imagine you are right about the war playing a part in the story - maybe one of them would go but the other would not, and complicatied feelings could be part of it? I do know that whatever your fertile imagination comes up with, it's gonna be good!
posted by
adnohr
on February 8, 2015 at 5:26 AM
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