Rocking with Elvis
At 77 years young. Join me.
Those followers particularly those in the States probably think I’ve abandoned them but in this new world you can access my submissions wherever you live.
Tis true I am concentrating my efforts on my UK Platform @7thwave and am about to launch my latest and as yet my most ambitious enterprise. You can freely access the first chapter of my ‘legends’ series by logging onto my site yorkshirefenix.7thwave.io
We get so tied up with present everyday concerns and trying to predict the future, we try to follow the latest trends like sheep to the slaughter whilst there should still be time to look back at stories from the bygone days. My interest is the mid-18th Century around these parts of North Country England and I’ve adapted my ‘Legends’ from some of those first published in 1788, I’ve changed the locations from the south of England to the North. There’s no gratuitous sex and violence though perhaps a little romance and mystery, I guess that signifies that they will be unpopular according to modern day pundits. Sex and Violence is all you want to read about apparently. How frustrated you all must be.
However I do beleive that their is a core of decent people living throughout the world who will appreciate good clean mystery and suspense short stories. There are some novels in the pipeline also, one starring an ancester of mine, Double Agent, James Sandeman. A mercenary employed by “Butcher Cumberland” and by “Bonnie Prince Charlie”, you could say an old style secret agent whose ideas were copied by Edward Chapman in the second world war when he spied for both Britain and Germany.
However, I’m not averse to more modern day legends, indeed I’m going to relive my youth in a few weeks time at an Elvis Presley revival concert. Last week I attended a show which featured another US legend Dolly Parton, another wonderful entertainer even her look alike could have fooled me. It restored my faith in you Americans after receiving a death threat for one who took exception to my Yorkshire sense of humour. Do you Americans have a sense of humour, I guess you’ve got one comedian who goes to extreme lengths to get publicity by getting his ear shot off. How was that for precision marksmanship. Surely no one would seriously consider asassinating such a nice guy. Apolgies to anyone offended by my North Country Sense of humour.
However, if you wish to show me that Americans or indeed any other nationality do have a sense of humour then sign into my site ‘yorkshirefenix.7thwave.io’ and read my adaptation of 18th century life “A Ghost Story or is it?” First episode available now. Also many more free short reads from my new home that I call Cloverlawn based within the foothills of the ‘White Peak’.
My very best wishes Counsin’s wherever you live from The Yorkshire Fenix.
I didn't know that Larry. Hasn't affected your filming.
I learned I was a slow reader while in the third grade. My teacher set a "reading machine? on my desk and gave me instructions for its use. "Read as fast as you can and then answer the questions that followed. The lines of words disappeared before I could read them and all I could do was to guess at the answers. She set the speed slower but the results were the same. For me to understand anything that I read, I have to say each word out loud to myself before I go on to the next word. High school and college work meant the evening reading. Grading papers was the worst chore while teaching school. I AVOID THE CHANANGE OF READING A BOOK OR A CHAPTER IN A BOOK. I can read the Bible well because I can make sense out of the few verse I read at a time. I am 86 now.