Bruin Fisher

Don't tell me... I know this one... It's cos I'm a bear of very little brain? Bruin

Swimming in the sea is just so much better than a swimming pool. Unfortunately my bit of sea is brown and muddy, and everyone who swims in it comes out with a sore throat. There's an industrial outflow up the coast from here. I have a rule - I only swim if I can see my feet through the water. Here you can't see your midriff, let alone your feet. So go on, gloat about your lovely blue clean water. See if I care...And what's this about bumping into a friend on the beach and being offered tea? How cool is that?! His beach hut has mains power? Or was it out of a flask? I hate tea from a flask...Bruin

So you read my advert there, and didn't even phone me? I'm insulted! Bruin

How could anyone get mad at Trab? Sheer impossibility. Bruin

How did you know? Bruin

Geoghegan is pronounced gay-gun would you believe? The other unfamiliar words are the product of my fevered imagination - but you may be able to work them out once you have Geoghegan. Bruin

At the wedding of friends, boy to boy We wondered whose name they'd employ. Speculation was trounced When the vicar announced: Roy Fitzalan, and Alan Fitzroy. Bruin, full of mischief

I'm stuck with the surname of Geoghegan, A name that goes back to times Peoghegan. Once, just for a laugh I pronounced the first haugh On its own and was Geoghe for a Deoghe, Man! Hope you enjoy this - and that it's not too obscure? Bruin

I guess tecnically if he has his top off, he's 'topless' but since his privates are not revealed by doing so, he's hardly immodest. A woman, on the other hand reveals her biggest physical attributes when she takes her top off so for her it means a lot more. More the equivalent of a guy walking around with the seat out of his pants... Bruin, now stuck with a mental image that won't go away...

I'll volunteer to model. It will be a landscape format calendar, won't it? Don't think I would fit on a portrait format page... Bruin

Thanks guys - you're very kind! I wonder which bits?? I've so far written... 3... so it shouldn't take long to put such a book together... ! Thanks for showing such confidence in me, Cole. I'll try my best but don't hold your breath.! Shucks, Oliver, I bet you say that to all the boys... Seriously, I'm very pleased and flattered that you guys liked my story and took the trouble to say so. Big hugs Bruin

Jamie's Journal Entry is beautifully written and it's a privilege to be given a look into his life. And chapter 17 of 'Just One Starfish' is posted, too. Two treats from Grasshopper, lang may his lum reek. Bruin

Yaay! Chapters 4 and 5 are wonderful. This story is shaping up to be something quite out of the ordinary. A class apart, like Torvill and Dean(?!) Bruin

High as a kite,You write trite shite?Under a curseI disburse worse verse.xxx

Nice weather is good. Less stress is good. If the stress you were under inspired you to write, and now you lack that inspiration, it's a small price to pay for the joys of stress-free living. And I PROMISE YOU your muse will return. Just taking a break. Chill out and let it take its time.I'm speaking, here, out of my vast experience... NOT.Good to hear you're tigger-like, hope the gig goes well.HugsBruin

(Slightly off topic, but why break the habit of a lifetime?) Good question, Cole. I've submitted the update to his Dudeness ten days ago. This evening I'm going to send him an e-mail because I suspect it's gone astray. Maybe the internether swallowed it. Please keep looking - it will appear eventually! (Hope it's worth the wait). Bruin

Chapter 3's up - with a vicious cliff-hanger ending. Grrr. Bruin

The upper is quivering with angst, the lower: stiff with resolve! Resolve, eh? Do they sell that at Superdrug?Bruin

Just as well we have eagle-eye Trab to help us out then. Gotta go, I've got a chapter to read...! Bruin

That's it, Pecman, shatter my illusions! I love both those songs even if Desmond Decker's dialect is indecipherable. Hand on heart, though, it never occurred to me that Millie's song was not about a boyfriend.... You're not having us on, are you? Bruin

Hmmm. Thought-provoking, disquieting, skilfully written, neatly packaged. But NOT a feel-good story! Great writing Jason! Bruin

Very nice - bucking convention by turning the tables. You write beautiful shorts, Jason. You have a good heart, I think. Bruin

Lovely Jason! Lump-to-your-throat beautiful. Bruin

I love this story. Chapter one stands on its own, so much so that I'm intrigued to know where you're going to take it. Can't wait till chaper two. The 'twist in the tail' is very funny, toe-curlingly, gut-wrenchingly funny. But sad, too... Bruin

You clearly have a very poor filing system - all these gems you 'discover' on backup disks from years ago! I recommend you check your backups carefully so we can enjoy the great stuff you used to write but then lost... Seriously I liked this one a lot. It reminded me in style of some of the poems of A.A.Milne but with an adult theme. Great stuff. The last verse is a scorcher. Bruin