Book Bites!----write a chunk of one here!

[Northern Lass]

Bite size chunks of stories that we can all add to
and who knows it might even make sense!



So say a paragraph ....not war and peace and let's try and keep it
at least making some sense...

We could have our first one with the theme of Elizabethan England....

[Northern Lass]

Going to start it off....

Tudor mystery most Horrid!

Margaret decided that she would walk home from her Uncle Henry's
farmhouse as her trusty mare Bessie had gone lame.
The streets were dark and damp but she was used to the filth and stench.
As she turned the corner she was horrified to see.......

...a dark swarthy stranger.He uttered a sound and she shuddered as he spoke again and crept into the shadows.
I asked him why he was loitering and he turned to me and said " I am me. I am who I have always been and i will wander the earth until he comes again. Now do you understand?” I walked swiftly past him and ..............

...wondered if perhaps this tall mysterious stranger was one of the priests from the monastries that
had been burnt down his dress was odd....sandals and a kind of sack cloth outer garment...we had to be careful
to embrace the new way of worship...Cromwell had his spies about....I carried on quickly towards....

...... myself as I breathe in the follies of last night, I see my mind at work, creating sentences, reaching out for meaning. And I see it letting go of these same creations. Is this what a contemplative practice could offer to communities in conflict, the ability to see the roots of violence in our minds? I make a mental note to discuss this the next time i see him in ...............

...I make a mental note to discuss this the next time i see him ...
but meanwhile Wolsey is becoming the real power behind the throne, without ever letting the King guess who is truly running the country. Last February he had been made Dean of York and Henry had bestowed many favors upon him. Wolsley,however, was falling from favor, for he had often advised Henry to listen to Ferdinand, his father-in-law. He even councelled Henry to form an alliance with France but time was running out ...

ok your turn....

[Northern Lass]

...... myself as I breathe in the follies of last night, I see my mind at work, creating sentences, reaching out for meaning. And I see it letting go of these same creations. Is this what a contemplative practice could offer to communities in conflict, the ability to see the roots of violence in our minds? I make a mental note to discuss this the next time i see him in ...............

wot!...have you swallowed a theosaurus?
You always do this go off at a tangent
spoilt it now

[Rob]

What do you mean by that then!!??
I do not go off on a tangent why don't you go with the flow instead and see where it leads?
Use your imagination oh Northern One i know you have one!!

[BC Wench]

Oh come on you pair. I was really looking forward to my "Book At Bedtime" tale and now you've gone and spoilt it Rob
I ain't slept properly since Wednesday night awaiting the next installment. So come on gal and guy let's have some more pleeease.

[mikleed]

Jan.....I presume you mean Thomas Cromwell ?
Mike.

[Northern Lass]

Jan.....I presume you mean Thomas Cromwell ?
Mike.

Yes that is the one Mike

[Rob]

..Yes that is the one Mike ...another messy execution!! Thomas Cromwell is panicking because the King is blaming him for the Anne of Cleves marriage fiasco and council members have turned against him.He's worried that his next point of call will be The Tower of London but hopefully he can still ....

[Northern Lass]

...I make a mental note to discuss this the next time i see him ...
but meanwhile Wolsey is becoming the real power behind the throne, without ever letting the King guess who is truly running the country. Last February he had been made Dean of York and Henry had bestowed many favors upon him. Wolsley,however, was falling from favor, for he had often advised Henry to listen to Ferdinand, his father-in-law. He even councelled Henry to form an alliance with France but time was running out ...

....but what could I a mere woman do! although I had the heart of a lion in me!!...there had been rumours abound of a strange woman
that had arrived recently in the village of "Can't see the wood for the trees", with strange attire and language, they said that she had the gift
of prophecy. We were all being crushed by the taxes imposed on us to fund the reformation...surely help was near.......

[Rob]

...surely help was near ...yet, even if Henry and Wolsey obtained substantial allies in their quest, the new strategy was a mistake. A second treaty of peace initiated by England was Wolsey's overarching aim for the next three years but to escape from this cul de sac was to move ever deeper into his alliance with the French.
This woman with her strange attire and language could she indeed help the situation? Only time.....

[BC Wench]

Ahhh bless this pair.

[Rob]

[Northern Lass]

...surely help was near ...yet, even if Henry and Wolsey obtained substantial allies in their quest, the new strategy was a mistake. A second treaty of peace initiated by England was Wolsey's overarching aim for the next three years but to escape from this cul de sac was to move ever deeper into his alliance with the French.
This woman with her strange attire and language could she indeed help the situation? Only time.....

....the next day I went to the market to buy the usual necessities, and there was a huge crowd gathered for what I did not know.
I edged closer and could hear a woman's voice loud and clear over the attentive throng. Who was this? what was she about?
As I moved nearer I could hear that she wer from round ere!...who was she?....

[Rob]

What!!????
I end with " only time...."
and you begin with " ...the next day i went to the market" ...!!!???
So it's " only time the next day i went to the market"?

[mallosa]

Wot do you expect Rob? She had been out for a few bevvies when she wrote that