Sharlie Andrews - life before, during and after school
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#501:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:03 pm

Thank you Pim!!! *resisting joining the name game*

Love the way they are all settling down though Sharlie still doesn't seem very sure of her future...and do we hear more about Sam?

 

#502:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:46 pm

Is it teatime yet Pimlico?

 

#503:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:30 pm

I *am* keeping a list of the names you lot are calling me... and whose calling! Have no idea what I'll do with it yet mind... And now I should do a quick catch up and then get back to Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage. More tomorrow.

Over the next couple of days I gradually learned to act like a normal human being around Sam, but that didn’t stop my heart leaping into my mouth every time I saw him, nor the colour flooding to my cheeks whenever he spoke to me. If I had been in full possession of my senses I would have noticed that he was equally shy around me. I think Sam’s soft on you, Lucy said on the Saturday afternoon as we sat reading under a tree in the garden. Don’t be daft, I retorted blushing furiously and pretending to be engrossed in my book. Lucy wasn’t too keen on letting the subject drop and I eventually got fed up and stormed back to the house to hide in my room, only somebody saw me going and followed.

I was curled up on the window seat with my book when there was a knock on the door. Sharlie, it’s me, may I come in? It was Sam’s voice, I didn’t dare not agree. We sat on that window seat for the rest of the afternoon, he sitting stiffly and formally, I with my knees tucked under my chin. We talked about everything, school, the army, our families. I think you’re amazingly strong and brave, he said to me placing his hand over mine, and beautiful. And then he kissed me, and it was perfect. I’m sorry, he said pulling away from me. Don’t be, I whispered as I uncurled my knees from under my chin to sit beside him, taking his hand as I did so. He slipped an arm around my shoulders and I snuggled closer to him, glad of the feeling of security. I ignored the niggling voice telling me it would never last. Right here, right now, that was what was important, and it felt so right.

 

#504:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:06 pm

Awwwww sweet.

Thanks Pim

Is there still time to apologise for earlier name calling (I've seen what revenge can be like here and I'm scared!)

Liz

 

#505:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:18 pm

So pleased Sharlie's getting some happiness in her life at last.
She's so lovely, she deserves it.

Thanks Pim. Smile

 

#506:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:47 pm

While agreeing that it is nice to see Sharlie happy, Sam isn't around when she's at the CS so I'm already wibbling about the evilness that must be coming Pale .

Unless of course, Sam was just written out of the PBs that I have Wink

 

#507:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:55 pm

Thank you Pim - nice to see the family settling on things.

 

#508:  Author: Miss Di, Location: Newcastle, NSW PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:53 am

Chelsea wrote:
Sam isn't around when she's at the CS so I'm already wibbling about the evilness that must be coming

Unless of course, Sam was just written out of the PBs that I have Wink


It has been quite a while since Pim has killed anyone... Twisted Evil

 

#509:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:41 pm

Miss Di wrote:
[It has been quite a while since Pim has killed anyone... Twisted Evil


I killed Uncle Mike a couple of days ago... but he was surplus to requirements after all, and I couldn't think what else to do with him. *le shrug* And I'm mildly concerned by the rampant homicidal maniac view you all have of me now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More when I get back here on Sunday night.

Lucy sensed the change between Sam and I, I’m happy for you both, she said. We never told their parents since we only had such a short time together, Despite its brevity our days together bordered on perfect. There were so many times we didn’t have to say anything; we were just content to sit holding each other, basking in the safety of each other’s arms. I knew our chances of meeting again were slim, but we can always write, he said. It would be a way of prolonging the final farewell. I was surprised at myself for giving my trust so completely and easily to Sam but I had done it. After everything I’d been through I’d shied away from getting too close to people for fear of losing them; I was only too aware of the frailty of life. But I had lost my heart completely to Sam, and having done that I knew I would be able to do it again.

We shared our private farewell on the Tuesday night, entwined on the window seat where we had shared our first kiss. In front of the family on the Wednesday morning it was harder, trying not to let my feelings get the better of me. I cried in private, it wouldn’t have been fair on Lucy for me to burden her with my feelings. It wasn’t a subject we approached for a while, but our friendship was still the same. We spent a pleasant final few days together before I headed back to Liverpool.

Back at Aunt Jane’s I was only too eager to get back to school. I never mentioned what had happened with Sam and I to anyone; it was something I preferred to keep private. School certificate results arrived and we all did better than expected. You know that means Upper Fifth in September, Tish wrote grudgingly, we are fast becoming the staid old maids of the school, remember how in awe of Upper Fifth we were back in the first form? I remembered only too well, that scared eleven year old on her first day at St Monica’s was still there, but it was a whole lifetime ago.

 

#510:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:11 pm

Thanks Pimbalina I'm glad Sharlie is able to share things with Sam, and its great she's happy!!

 

#511:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:52 pm

That was lovely Pimto. Hope she doesn't scare too mnay first years!

 

#512:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:28 pm

Thank you Pimette, that was sooooo lovely, I'm glad that Sharlie has learned that she can love again, even if Sam has gone for good. (I hope you don't kill him though)

 

#513:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:57 pm

Many thanks, Pimmy Pommy Pandy! Wink

 

#514:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:35 pm

Thank you Pimderella!

Twisted Evil

 

#515:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:02 am

Thanks Pim-pom-pooly-pooly-pooly-pooly-wotsit. Twisted Evil

Have a good weekend Very Happy

 

#516:  Author: Rebecca, Location: Kendal/Oxford PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:46 pm

Thanks, IcklePimsyPoos! Aww at Sharlie and Sam - it's nice that something decent is happening to her for a change.

*couldn't resist joining in the name game*

 

#517:  Author: Mora, Location: Lancaster PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:10 pm

Awww for Sharlie and Sam. Have to admit I share in the view of you as a homicidal maniac though Pim. Wink

 

#518:  Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:13 pm

She wasn't very homicidal today. Mind you, whether Catherine will see the night out is another matter!! Twisted Evil

 

#519:  Author: Lisa, Location: South Coast of England PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:00 pm

Laughing Laughing Torn between loving the story and being impressed and admiring of the Pim-meister and laughing hilariously at all the names being bestowed!! (My own included!)

Btw, Why is your name Pim? Question

 

#520:  Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 1:51 am

Pat wrote:
She wasn't very homicidal today. Mind you, whether Catherine will see the night out is another matter!! Twisted Evil



By the time they've finished the chocolate crispies..................

 

#521:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:46 am

Thank you Pim!

*hoping to see Catherine alive and reasonably well on msn later Confused*

 

#522:  Author: catherine, Location: York PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:40 pm

Such Doubting Thomases!

*mocks*



Just caught up with this, Pimmy, tis as beautifully expressive as ever! (And you can't talk to me about doing horrible things to characters!!!)

 

#523:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:33 pm

Ta Imp, looking forward to more!

 

#524:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:41 pm

Since you're all being MEAN to me there's not more til tomorrow. Ackshully it's cos I haven't typed anymore and can't be bothered doing so.

And Catherine was alive and well when I left her on York station this afternoon. Whatever may have happened in the interim is not my fault.

 

#525:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:33 pm

Slow acting poison Pim?

Wink

 

#526:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:47 am

Not sure you horrible lot deserve this...

Upper fifth, groaned Tish on the first night back at school, that means the sixth next year and soon our school days will be just a memory. Tish’s abject horror of growing up never ceased to amuse us although we knew she was right. After much consultation between Miss Fairacre and the governors it had been decided that I would stay at school until the summer I turned nineteen. Miss Fairacre was already making noises about university scholarships but I was doing my best to ignore them. I had other things on my mind, lacrosse for one. The pressure of the future aside, Christmas term was a pleasant affair. After the stress of School Certificate our form mistress, Miss Morris, wasn’t too much of a slave driver, although she promised us that would all change after the holidays. Sam and I wrote regularly, much to Lucy’s amusement. I asked if she minded since her never wrote to her but she just laughed at me. I was realistic about Sam, I knew what we had shared those few days over the summer had been a case of right place, right time, a one off. In the meantime it was nice to have a confidante to confide my worries to.

The Christmas holidays were their usual quiet affair with Aunt Jane, Rebecca and Elizabeth all working. Harriet and I talked a lot, for the first time she opened up properly about mam and Bridget. We’d never pressed her about it before and three years of her sitting on her pain all tumbled out at once.

It was so easy to pretend to be okay at school Sharlie, she said, and eventually it got easier to pretend to you all as well, but it never goes away, especially as I should have been looking after Bridgie.
It wasn’t your fault Harri, no one has ever blamed you.
No, but I blamed myself.
We all blamed ourselves, it was an accident.
It should never have happened, it wouldn’t have done if I’d been looking after her.
Harri, she was eight years old, she knew the docks were dangerous.
If I hadn’t cried…
You were grieving for goodness sake Harri. Mam had just died, you were allowed to be upset.
I know that, but it doesn’t help.

We cried a lot, we hugged and by the end of the holidays the dark clouds were clearing from her eyes.

 

#527:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:52 am

We are not worthy We are not worthy We are not worthy We are not worthy
Thanks Pimmie Very Happy

(((Harriet & Sharlie)))

 

#528:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:01 am

Thanks Pim, that was beautiful Very Happy

 

#529:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:32 pm

Thank you Pim, lovely.

 

#530:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:37 pm

We are not worthy Thanks Pimoto!

 

#531:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:26 pm

*Huggles Sharlie and Harriet*

 

#532:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:55 pm

Thank you Pim! I hope Harriet can leave her feelings of guilt behind now.

 

#533:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:58 pm

How brilliant that Sharlie and Harriet could bring things into the open. I loved the episode with Sam. She's being incredibly mature about it too. I suppose she doesn't dare hope for too much with all that has happened.

Lovely, Pim. Is there more yet?

 

#534:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:23 pm

That was beautiful Pimbletina. Lovely to see Sharlie maturing so well, but what a shame she has had to at such a young age.

 

#535:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:03 pm

Just for Kat Very Happy Congrats sweetie.

And so 1947 rolled around and once more I headed back down to Cornwall. Miss Morris’ threat of working us harder was a promise, and as ever, only Lucy didn’t find this a problem. I turned seventeen in a quietly civilised manner, a little like the whole term really. Occasionally we approached the subject of university and life after school. We were mostly undecided as to where we would go next. I was just glad I was the only one who wasn’t too sure; apart from the fact that I knew I wanted to teach. It wasn’t a true vocation, but rather an idea that had grown on me and one I knew I would be good at. I’d even identified an age group that I wanted to work with; now I just needed to work out how to get there.

Rebecca’s secret came to light in the Easter holidays, she had got herself a young man, as Aunt Jane put it and they were planning on marrying. I can’t believe you never told me, I exclaimed. I already knew, gloated Elizabeth, I replied with a friendly punch. In private Harriet and I shared our reservations, it all seemed a bit sudden. She’s only eighteen, said Harriet, I’ll be starting my nurse training when I’m eighteen, I can’t imagine getting married then. They’re not getting married for another year, I pointed out, she’ll be nineteen then, besides if that’s what she wants who are we to argue? I think she’s mad, retorted Harriet, chucking away her life like that. That’s as may be, I said, but she never wanted to be like the rest of us. Harriet shrugged, she wasn’t convinced and, if I was completely honest, neither was I. I knew that Rebecca and Philip had known each other for ages but I was still niggled.

Summer term was too hot to slog but we were expected to anyway. Tish complained about it cutting up her tennis and swimming time but we pointed out that if she wanted an extra term in upper fifth whilst we lorded it up I the sixth she was welcome to ignore her work. Being kept back was Tish’s greatest fear and the spur she needed to keep up with us all. The prospect of us moving up to the sixth in September never ceased to amaze me; in my head I was still only in the third or so. The prospect of the summer holidays filled me with dread as everyone chattered about their proposed trips to France or the English coast. I still clung to the memory of that trip to Southport as a child, if I closed my eyes and tried hard enough then I was back there, a reminder of a completely different time.

 

#536:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:07 pm

Embarassed Thanks Pim!

Not sure whether to feel scared or not about Rebecca’s engagement!

*Hoping against hope that someone will take Sharlie away for a holiday*

Thanks Pim Kiss

 

#537:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:14 pm

Thanks Pim.

Hopes; the engagement is as good news as it should be Confused

drummer Trumpet popper party Party

Congrats Kat!

Here's one for you.... Reindeer

 

#538:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:18 pm

Thanks Pimly McPim - I'm glad Harriet's had the chance to unburden herself.

 

#539:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:46 pm

Many thanks Pimy Poppins.


Lovely couple of posts - and so glad she could be there for Harriet.

 

#540:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:54 pm

Thanks Pim, I'm glad that nothing has gone wrong for once.

Nothing wrong with Rebecca getting engaged if that's what she wants - she doesn't have to have other ambitions. Maybe she'll regret it later, but maybe if she hadn't got engaged she would have regretted that too.

 

#541:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:27 pm

Thanks for the update, I don't know if we are supposed to wibble about Rebecca or not!

 

#542:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:33 pm

Thank you Pimette! Very Happy

 

#543:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:07 am

Thank you Pimsteretta!

 

#544:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:50 am

Thanks Pimmy

Wheres some more..... PLEASE

 

#545:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:54 am

Lovely thank you Pimbeth Very Happy

 

#546:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:52 pm

Thank you Pim! Rebecca never had their academic ambitions hope she'll be very happy.

Also hope Sharlie gets a holiday, maybe someone will take her to Austria!

 

#547:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:54 pm

*In manner of seagulls from Finding Nemo... more? more? more? more?*

Wink

 

#548:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:56 pm

Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes at Kat.

Harriet and I ended up going back to Wales for ten days over the summer to visit Aunt Susan and Uncle John. It was wonderful to see them again, especially as we’d never had the chance for a proper thank you for all they’d done for us. It felt strange being back in the village where I’d stayed for so many years. It wasn’t so different as it had been, only there were fewer people and a noticeable absence of evacuee children. Aunt Susan and Uncle John were the same as they always had been, only a little older. Mary was living with an Aunt in Cardiff and working in shop. Tommy, now fourteen, was looking forward to leaving school and going into farm work. It was a pleasant ten days spent revisiting our old haunts and so different without the shadow of the war.

That time back in Wales only made Liverpool all the more suffocating and so I was pleased to get back to school. The sixth, groaned Tish, I can’t believe it. Neither could I, only two more years of our school life left. I wouldn’t have wanted to go back and live it all again but at the same time the thought of leaving school and making it in the big wide world scared me. Grown up and sensible, how boring, sighed Tish. The question of universities was suddenly being thrown at me again and I hadn’t a clue which way to turn. Lucy was swithering between Oxford and Cambridge, Tish was talking about going to Bedford to train in PT if she could talk her parents round, Nicole had settled on Edinburgh and Annie would be going home to her mother. Tish, Lucy and Nicole were made full prefects and Annie and I were made sub-prefects. I was surprised at my selection and there were a few whispers about the sympathy choice which I tried to ignore. I found myself helping with the younger girls in the first and second forms; as they were the age group I’d thought about teaching it was all good experience.

Miss Fairacre discussed university options with me, and so did our form mistress, Miss Chambers. I was concentrating on English, history, geography and languages with less emphasis on maths and science, much to my relief. They would both throw ideas about over my head until it spun so much it hurt, but I couldn’t scream at them to stop. It scared me that this decision would be the one that would influence the rest of my life. At the same time, Rebecca was taking decisions that would change her life. We’re getting married at Easter, she wrote, we want you and Harri there as bridesmaids. Like Harriet, I had my doubts about the wedding, but it wasn’t something I could say to Rebecca, she seemed so happy it wouldn’t be fair to spoil it by asking awkward questions. I wasn’t sure if she was rushing into things to get out of Aunt Jane’s hair and take Elizabeth, David and Caroline with her.

 

#549:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:03 pm

ROFL

Thanks for giving her a holiday Pim! Very Happy Which uni does she end up going to though? I can't remember if we're told or not Embarassed
And please please please let Rebecca be happy with her marriage!!

 

#550:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:03 pm

Thank you Pim!!

Hope everything will work out happily for them all in the end!

 

#551:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:41 pm

Thank you Pim!!! Glad Sharlie got a holiday, hope she can decide which uni without too much stress.

 

#552:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:04 pm

I hope Rebecca will be happy, she must desperately want to provide a home for her family. Thanks Pimpernel Very Happy

 

#553:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:03 pm

Is there any chance of more Pimpernickel?

Please?

 

#554:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:32 pm

Looking forward to hearing all about the wedding!

 

#555:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:00 pm

Thank you Pim! Very Happy Can't wait for the wedding! *praying that nothing will go wrong*

 

#556:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:24 pm

Thank you Pim. Wish Sharlie could do something nasty to those snobs at her school - surely she deserves as much!

 

#557:  Author: Mora, Location: Lancaster PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:57 pm

Thanks Pim. Do we get to see Sharlie at university too? I hope that's a happier time for her (less death and all that) and that Rebecca's wedding at least is lovely, even if we are all wibbling about the actual marriage.

 

#558:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:46 pm

Uggggggggh, I hate sand! It seemed like such a good idea at the time to go and look at the northern lights from East Sands... Maybe the walk up the beach, round the harbour and alonf the pier (all in my tights) wasn't such a good plan... but I digress...

We took David and Caroline to see Uncle Charlie over the Christmas holidays but there was still no recognition from him; it was as though we didn’t exist. It still upset me seeing him that way, it was no life for him to be living. It had been seven years since they’d brought him back from Dunkerque and there had been no change in all that time. It just seemed like such a senseless waste of a life. It upset David and Caroline as well seeing him, they’d never known him as we had before the war – to them he was just that shell of a man in the soldier’s home. He was their father in name only, they would never have the memories that we had of da. Rebecca and Philip would take David and Caroline once they were married to live with them. Elizabeth had chosen to stay with Aunt Jane. I can’t leave her on her own, she said to Harriet and I, not after everything she’s done for us.

I turned eighteen during spring term and realised that I would have to face up to the future pretty sharpish, especially as the others seemed so sorted. Lucy had settled on Oxford, St Hilda’s to be precise, for history with little clue to the future after that. Tish was bound for Bedford and PT before becoming a games mistress; it had taken some persuading in her parents’ direction but they had eventually come round to Tish’s way of thinking. Nicole had decided long ago on Edinburgh and Annie would leave school at the end of the year with her mother’s view of marriage and babies, Annie said with a grimace. I was reminded only too sharply of Rebecca by this and had to keep telling myself that at least with Rebecca it was her own choice. For my own part, I had finally, after much discussion, settled on going to London for two years if I could get a scholarship. There were several open for September 1949 intake; the prospect of another scholarship terrified me, but I knew it was something I had to do. Carpe diem, Nan had said, if only she could see me now.

 

#559:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:57 pm

Awww... Crying or Very sad thanks Pim.

Poor Annie, being practically forced into marriage Sad Hope her mother chooses someone nice for her *gentle hint*

Go Sharlie!

 

#560:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:55 am

Nice elizabeth staying wtih Aunt Jane.

Hope Shalrie gets scholarship for London.

thanks for update Pim Very Happy Very Happy

 

#561:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:59 am

Oh, good, we can use Pim's name again without flailing around for embellishments. (I think I was down to Pimiento Confused .)

Thank you, Pim!

 

#562:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:14 am

Thank you Pim - had forgotten Sharlie had a two year course, not three!

 

#563:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:35 am

Lovely

Thanks Pim

Liz

 

#564:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:56 am

Thanks Pim, I'm hoping that Annie will find a doctor!

 

#565:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:08 am

Thank you Pim. I do hope she has a really good time at uni. She does deserve it.

 

#566:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:45 am

Thanks Pim

Immediately starts chanting for some more....... Wink

 

#567:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:26 am

Thank you Pim!! Joins Kathye's chant....well why not!

Hope Sharlie enjoys London!

 

#568:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:03 pm

Ooh a chant! *warbles*

Thank you Pimbuktu (sorry, I just can't stop Wink )

 

#569:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:29 pm

Pim-sera-sera, pleeeeease give us some more!

 

#570:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:49 pm

For the benefit of you name callers... if you click on the www link at the bottom of my posts it will take you to my LiveJournal and all the names you've called me so far (Leader Board included). I mean, c'mon, in fairness, we don't want to be repeating ourselves do we?!

Rebecca’s wedding was to be the weekend after Harriet and I broke up for Easter. The week before was a flurry of sewing and final preparations, I could hardly believe it was really going to happen. I attempted to discuss my concerns in a roundabout way with Rebecca. Do you love Philip, I asked naively on the Wednesday evening. What does it matter, she replied with a shrug, I’ll be out of Aunt Jane’s hair and so will David and Caroline. But Aunt Jane’s not the sour old handbag she used to be, I pointed out. That’s as may be, she said, but we’re still in the way, you’re only here for holidays anyway. But do you love him, I persisted. Yes Sharlie, I do, se replied and I knew that she meant it. I was happy for her, after everything Rebecca deserved her chance at happiness and if that was Philip then so be it. She’d never wanted as much as we had but she had taken her chances in her own way. I liked what I’d seen of Philip, he seemed good natured and fun. Not much substance up top, said Harriet a little unkindly. But that didn’t matter, he made Rebecca happy and David and Caroline adored him.

The sun came out for the wedding, Rebecca looked so beautiful and happy it was hard to keep the tears from my eyes. I wish mam and da were here to see it, she said wistfully outside the church. They’re always watching, Harriet said. We knew Harriet was right. And so we three walked Rebecca down the aisle in her final journey as Rebecca Andrews. Philip was waiting at the front of the church smiling all over his face; Aunt Jane sat a few pews back dabbing at her eyes furiously with her handkerchief. If only your parents could have seen you today, she said to us all. We could only smile at each other in reply. Rebecca had pledged herself to Philip and now Rebecca Haughton she left the church smiling, clutching Philip’s hand in on her hers and her bridal bouquet in the other. We scattered our confetti and gave our congratulations before making our way back to Aunt Jane’s for lunch. After everything we’d all been through and everything we others had achieved, Rebecca had found her happy ending.

She and Philip moved into their own house the evening of the wedding, and David and Caroline joined them on the Monday. Even though they would only be a few streets away I realised how different it would be for Aunt Jane without them. Now you see why I can’t leave her yet, said Elizabeth. I saw her point. Aunt Jane had been on her own for so long until we had been pushed on her and turned her whole life upside down after the war had ended. It had only been three years but she would often remark how having us around had changed her life for the better. I admired Elizabeth for staying with Aunt Jane, with her work in the city centre there was so much more out there for her but she chose to turn her back on it for Aunt Jane’s sake. I didn’t think that if that had been me in Elizabeth’s situation I would have been so unselfish.

 

#571:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:59 pm

Thanks Pim. All the girls are lovely aren't they? Elizabeth for staying with Aunt Jane, and Rebecca for making a home for their cousins.
It's nice to see at least one of them being happy, after all they've been through.

 

#572:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:00 pm

Thanks Pim

Liz *wondering whether to be upset or relieved that I'm bottom of the leader board*

 

#573:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:06 pm

Thanks Pim, but I would like to point out I have called you Pimmy on more than just this occasion. I used it before the current trend started.

 

#574:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:06 pm

Lovely, Pim. It's so realistic, even to Sharlie admitting that she couldn't do what Elizabeth is doing. I do hope that you can give Elizabeth a reward sometime later.

Checked your listing of aliases and heroically refrains from adding.












On condition that posts are frequent to this excellent drabble Twisted Evil

 

#575:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:41 pm

Thank you Pim *hugs*

Now please tell us about Sharlie and her scholarships to uni!!

 

#576:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:45 pm

Thanks Pimothy (we haven't had that one yet, have we?) - I'm glad it was a happy wedding.

 

#577:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:50 pm

Thanks Pim!

 

#578:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:04 pm

Thank you Pim! Very Happy Wonder how they're all going to get on at university Wink

 

#579:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:22 pm

That is just a challenge Pimmbles (can't believe we havn't had that one, but sadly realising I must have repeated some of Ally's (or of other peoples))

Lovely wedding scene. Presume Sharlie will get her schol, but hope she doesn't find Uni worse than school for snobbery.

Look forward to more Pimmada (two in one post!)

 

#580:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:41 pm

Thanks Very Happy
How the children changed Aunt Jane's life reminded me of Anne of Green Gables, lovely!

 

#581:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:43 pm

*Exercises gloating rights again - hurry up and post the next bit for them Pim!*

 

#582:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:49 pm

Now, now Kat, we all know what happens to gloaters... WinkWink Besides, I had to go out! Go watch Finding Neverland it's absolutely incredible.

We conspired to make Annie’s final term the best on record but work often conspired against us. We made full use of our precious free time and the weather for tennis, swimming, picnics and walks. We spent our final half term together with Tish and Lucy’s parents having tea and going to the cinema. The days raced by and it seemed odd to be facing our final year without Annie and our futures so settled. I’m glad the weather’s been kind to us this term, Annie said the week before we broke up, it makes my memories all the nicer. We tried to cling on to our time together but time was against us and the end of term arrived sooner than we would have liked. We’ll write to you of course, said Tish on the last day as we waited for the coach to the station, you’ll have to invite us to your wedding. Annie gave a half laugh in reply, it was clear that she was fighting the tears. I couldn’t bear to think of the fact that it would be us next year.

My plans for a quiet summer studying for my university scholarship were put slightly out of joint when Sam appeared out of the blue on Aunt Jane’s doorstep. I found myself at a loose end with a couple of days leave and didn’t fancy going home, he explained as I hustled him off the doorstep and down the street. I didn’t much fancy the idea of becoming local gossip and risking the disapproving looks of the neighbours for inviting a young man in, especially one who clearly wasn’t from round here. Have you got somewhere to stay, I asked tentatively. No, I was rather hoping… he began. You can’t stay at Aunt Jane’s, I yelped, she’d have forty fits, and a few more besides for good measure. He looked disappointed so I suggested we try Rebecca, she was a little sceptical but agreed, given that it would only be two nights. We took the bus into the city centre, had afternoon tea and spent an enjoyable evening catching up. It had been two years since those summer days we’d had together, and a few months since either of us had written and now my feelings were all over the place.

I’d resigned myself to the fact that I’d never see Sam again after our time at his parents’. Him showing up had thrown me completely. I’d spent the intervening years telling myself that it was all for the best and had been nice whilst it lasted but now it all came flooding back, all those feelings at once and I wasn’t sure I wanted them. I liked Sam, he was a good friend, someone I could confide my worries in but everything was so much easier by letter. I found it easier to write my feelings down, things always came out better that way. Now he was here, in front of me, and I just couldn’t express myself properly.

 

#583:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:51 pm

Happy Angel

 

#584:  Author: Mora, Location: Lancaster PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:55 pm

Poor confuddled Sharlie. Rebecca's wedding was lovely though, nice that she's being sympathetic. Poor Annie! Sad Thanks Pim.

 

#585:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:58 pm

Oh poor Sharlie, her head must be all over the place!

Thanks Pim. Glad the films good too - REALLY want to see that one...

 

#586:  Author: Alex, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:23 pm

Have read all of this today, I don't know whether I'm more impressed by the life story of Sharlie or the amount of variations on Pim! Shocked

OK so the drabble wins, no contest really.

 

#587:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:24 pm

Thanks Pim.

 

#588:  Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:53 pm

Cheers Pim! LOTS to catch up on!
So when do we get to vote on our favourite names then? Wink

 

#589:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:28 am

Thanks Pim Very Happy

Liz

 

#590:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:52 am

More great stuff Pim, do we get to see how Rebecca and her new hubby are getting on ?

 

#591:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:47 am

Thanks Pimmypie,
hope Sharlie feels less confuzzled soon.

 

#592:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:21 am

Thank you Pim!

Well, if Kat's going to gloat, I am too - have been very good up until now! Very Happy

Looking forward VERY much to uni years - and seeing what her friends are getting up to Wink Has Charley told you what to do yet? *looking hopful*

 

#593:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:22 pm

Thank you Pim *still restraining myself from joining the name game*

Look forward to seeing more, poor Sharlie all confused.

 

#594:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:52 pm

That was great Pimney! Love Sam turning up out of the blue and just expecting to be accomodated, so like a man! Hope her last year at school is a happy one.


(Your list appears to be getting out of date, pity cos it is such a great help! You should have known we couldn't resist a challenge!)

 

#595:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:35 pm

Thank you very much Pimpillo, the wedding was lovely and interesting to see Sam again!

*Suddenly realising she has a position to maintain Twisted Evil Wink *

Any chance of some more Pimelor Prent-Pyer?

 

#596:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:16 pm

Alleeeeeeeeeeeeeee you MEAN!

That last name has just reduced me to a fir of near hysteria in the middle of the library. Naturally this is not connected to the wine consumed at lunctime...

 

#597:  Author: Alex, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:37 pm

Last night I took ages to fall asleep so I amused myself by thinking of alternatives to Pim and very creative they were too.

This morning I had forgotten them all. Which is probably just as well.

 

#598:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:40 pm

Ally wrote:
Any chance of some more Pimelor Prent-Pyer?


ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

 

#599:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:10 pm

Looks like I'll have to go and rewrite the list... *le sigh* But I do like Pimelor Prent-Pyer... see MSN current user name!

We spent the following day in the city centre before going to the pictures in the evening. It was almost perfect but I sensed that something wasn’t quite right and I couldn’t put my finger on it. Sam didn’t seem to notice and carried on as normal. We were savouring our final walk back to Rebecca’s and Aunt Jane’s when the niggling feeling grew too much. Sam kissed me and I pulled away.

What’s the matter Sharlie?
I… I don’t know. It’s just… not right anymore.
What do you mean?
It’s been two years Sam, you just expected us to pick up where we left off? It’s… it’s all so confusing.
What’s there to be confused about? I care about you a lot Sharlie.
But is it enough?
I don’t understand what it is you want.
I don’t know what I want. I just guess that I don’t see you in my future. I’ve fought so hard to get where I am today Sam, and there’s still so much more to achieve. I can’t throw it all away, I owe so much to the people who have believed in me.
But they wouldn’t begrudge your happiness?
That’s just it. I don’t think I’d be happy with you; I’d be left with so many questions about what might have been. I do like you Sam, but I don’t love you. I don’t even know what love is.
Sam broke the ensuing silence. Sharlie, I would never make you do anything that made you unhappy. You have to follow your dreams, but I’ll always be here for you, whenever you need me. I’ll always care about you.
I’ll always care about you too, as my friend.

Under the glare of the street light we kissed for the final time and went our separate ways. We would always be friends, friends who had once shared something special. I cried in private a little, but in public I had to defend myself against my sisters’ teasing.

 

#600:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:21 pm

Crying or Very sad Poor Sam! I'm so glad you didn't kill him to get him out of Sharlie's life though!! Wink

 

#601:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:45 pm

Lovely Very Happy Glad Sharlie was able to be honest with Sam

Thanks Pim

Liz

 

#602:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:11 pm

Oh, poor Sharlie. Sad But glad she could be honest with him.

thanks for the update Pim Very Happy

 

#603:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:21 pm

Am hoping there will be some more soon Pim ???

 

#604:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:29 pm

Thank you Pimpernickle!

 

#605:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:37 pm

Poor Sam, but he'll get over it. Better that than an umhappy marriage! Sharlie is once again showing her maturity. It would have been so easy to slip into marriage for her.

thank you Pim

 

#606:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:38 pm

That was a lovely way of dealing with Sam.

Love the fact that we get so much of this, hope it continues Pimtastic.

 

#607:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:53 pm

Poor Sharlie Crying or Very sad
Last Kisses are always so upsetting! Hoping she can find someone she truly loves soon!

 

#608:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:57 pm

Will update the leader board tomorrow Wink I had great fun explaining that one to one of my RL friends who reads my LJ this evening...

I divided the rest of my summer between Aunt Jane’s and Rebecca’s, mostly working for the scholarship examinations. I wasn’t sure what I’d do if I didn’t get one and at times it seemed so futile pinning all my hopes on one plan that might never come to fruition. I was often distracted from studying by thoughts of Sam as I tried to convince myself that I had made the right choice. The easy way out of course would have been to give in and give the rest of my life to Sam but I knew it wasn’t what I wanted. I knew that even now with the world at peace he would still be away a lot with the army. I needed more than a few snatched days leave here and there with him. Moreover, I’d seen the effects of army life. Admittedly, chances were that Sam would never have to go through anything like da, Uncle Charlie and Uncle Mike, but it didn’t stop me worrying that he might.

It felt odd catching the train back to school that September knowing that my final year stretched ahead of me. It seemed odd without Annie, and Nicole was behaving unusually on the train. I hear you had a visitor over the hols, Lucy said to me. I flushed a furious shade of red. Don’t worry, she said with a laugh, Sam wrote and told me pretty much everything, he said he’d write once we were back here, he’s not angry with you. What was I supposed to do Lucy, I asked. You’re asking the wrong person, she said, but if you want my humble opinion you wouldn’t want to spend the rest of your life with my big brother, he can still be a right pain at times! I had to smile at Lucy’s assessment. I was happy that it hadn’t affected our friendship and I looked forward to Sam’s letter arriving.

The reason for Nicole’s behaving out of character became clear when we got back to school. I’m leaving at Christmas, she announced as we unpacked our night cases in the dorm, dad’s been posted out to Australia for a year so he wants me to go as well to keep mum company. But what about uni, asked Lucy. What about it, replied Nicole glumly, they’re not bothered about that, dad thinks it’s all a waste of time anyway. There was nothing any of us could say to cheer Nicole up, we couldn’t believe her parents were willing to throw away her future in that manner.

 

#609:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:03 pm

*Huggles Nicole*
Yay that there was an update just before I log off Very Happy thanks Piminie!

 

#610:  Author: JackieJ, Location: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:08 pm

Just caught up from about page 20 Shocked , but it's wonderful pim (I was going to say piminty, but it's probably always been used Razz)

JackieJ

 

#611:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:18 am

Can't help but feel sorry for Sam - he went all the way to Liverpool to find a girl he hadn't seen for two years and when she dumps him, he's still understanding! Heart

Thanks Pimzilla!

 

#612:  Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:21 am

pim wrote:
I’m leaving at Christmas, she announced as we unpacked our night cases in the dorm, dad’s been posted out to Australia for a year so he wants me to go as well to keep mum company. But what about uni, asked Lucy. What about it, replied Nicole glumly, they’re not bothered about that, dad thinks it’s all a waste of time anyway. There was nothing any of us could say to cheer Nicole up, we couldn’t believe her parents were willing to throw away her future in that manner.


Maybe she'll marry someone in Sydney and settle there Wink



Love Lucy's dismissal of her big brother as a potential life partner!


When do we get some more pimsy wimsy wibbles?

 

#613:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:01 am

Thanks Pim - poor Nicole, so Madge wasn't the only parent to do that then!

 

#614:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:02 am

Ahhhhhh Nicole.

Fingers crossed for Sharlie's scholarship

Thanks Pim Very Happy

 

#615:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:09 am

Poor Nicole, and poor Sharlie, yet another scholarship exam!!

Thank you very much Piminade Very Happy

 

#616:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:37 pm

Thanks Pimders.

Nice to see that Sharlie isn't the only one with worries about her future, and to compare what happened to Nicole with what happened to the Russell girls, also being sent to Australia.

 

#617:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:17 pm

Aww, thank you Pimbachoo!

 

#618:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:54 pm

Thankees Pimbooboo! Very Happy

*hyper Gem*

 

#619:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:03 pm

*worries about hyper Gem*

Knowing that we’d see the year out without Nicole was difficult. Tish had been made Games Captain, Lucy remained a prefect and I was made a full prefect and got to spend a lot of my time helping with the younger ones. Nicole kept her prefectship and I think that made it harder knowing that she would leave at Christmas. Millie Herriot, Tish’s fellow games fiend, had been appointed Head Girl much to her despair as it kept her away from the hockey field. They should have appointed Lucy, Millie would groan on a regular basis. Lucy would just laugh in reply. It was hard work trying to keep Nicole happy, the last thing she needed was a miserable final term but she seemed bent on making it that way.

Sam’s letter arrived a fortnight into term, I recognised his handwriting straight away and knew that it was something I couldn’t read over breakfast. I had a free lesson first thing, the others were all in science so I settled in a corner of the common room to read.

Dear Sharlie,

I hope this letter finds you well and not working too hard at school. I know you have scholarship exams coming up but you do need to take time out for you and to have fun. You should take a leaf out of Tish’s book, she always seems like a jolly good sport. I told Lucy everything that had happened between us, she didn’t seem too surprised but said that you were doing the right thing. I guess I must have thrown you more than I realised by turning up that way over the summer. You have never been out of my thoughts over the last two years and I needed to know how you felt in return. We had something special but you realised that it wasn’t something we could base the rest of our lives on. I know how hard you’ve worked to get where you are today and it was wrong of me to assume that you would even think about throwing it all away. Take care of yourself my Sharlie, I hope things all work out for you. I’d like to think that we can stay friends but I understand if you don’t. I will always be here if you need me, and I will always care about you.

Always, Sam.

P.S. All the best for the school.

Dear Sam,

Thank you for your letter. I’m trying not to work too hard but you have no idea how badly I want that scholarship; I can’t even begin to contemplate failing it. Your letter made me think over what happened between us and I do care about you, an awful lot. But we can’t base forever on a memory; life requires a little more substance. I hope we can remain friends as well; in you I had found the first person I would trust with my life. After all I’ve been through my complete trust is a hard thing to give, but you have it. One day you will find someone with whom you can spend the rest of your life with a more stable foundation than a few snatched days. You deserve somebody who can devote themselves completely to you. I couldn’t, I would always have been left wondering what might have happened. I will always care about you, and if you ever need a friend I will always be here for you.

Ever your, Sharlie.

P.S. I haven’t seen her since breakfast but I’m sure Lucy would say hello.

 

#620:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:48 pm

Thank you Pimbloo! (hey, I made a rhyme Very Happy) That was a truly lovely update Smile Especially love "But you can't base forever on a memory" Glad that they can still be friends. Also a bit surprised that Lucy wasn't HG - maybe because she DID work too much - afraid that she'd overwork herself or maybe neglect the job?

*still hyper*

*should be working*

*off to check other drabbles*

 

#621:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:53 pm

Thank you Pimpimchimpim!
Sharlie's response to Sam's letter was lovely!

 

#622:  Author: Catherine_B, Location: Oxford, UK PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:17 pm

*enjoying this muchly* it must be several pages since a death!

It's relieving to know that Sharlie must get in to uni somewhere so she eventually ends up at the CS - otherwise I'd be wavering very precariously on the edge of a cliff!

Thank you Pim Kiss

 

#623:  Author: Mora, Location: Lancaster PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:12 pm

Sharlie is such a sensible young woman, but really sensitive too. Glad Sam is understanding (and still alive) Wink
Poor Nicole! Sad

 

#624:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:37 pm

Thank you Pimastasia!!!!


glad Sam was so understanding and that it looks like he and Sharlie will stay friends!

 

#625:  Author: catherine, Location: York PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:43 pm

Loving this as much as ever!


Thanks Pim!

 

#626:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:58 pm

Thanks Pim Very Happy

Liz

 

#627:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 2:07 am

*Echoing thanks*

 

#628:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:00 am

Catherine_B wrote:
*enjoying this muchly* it must be several pages since a death!


*frowns* I can always rectify that!!! Twisted Evil Oh, and the leader board has been updated... just click on the www!

I never told the others the full story about Sam, only Lucy, there didn’t seem to be any point. Half term approached rapidly, the days becoming weeks which slipped though our fingers. Half term also brought two more than welcome visitors, Rebecca and Elizabeth who had made a spur of the moment decision to come down, but something in their eyes told me they were up to no good. Elizabeth looked every inch the respectable junior secretary that she was. Rebecca, on the other hand, grew more like mam every time I saw here. She and Elizabeth both laughed when I mentioned it, especially at my indignation towards their laughter. Oh Sharlie, said Elizabeth eventually, you’d better tell her Rebecca. Rebecca grinned at Elizabeth and then back at me. You’re going to be an aunt Sharlie, she said, around April time. I shrieked with delight and hugged Rebecca before turning on Elizabeth. How long have you known, I demanded indignantly. Since Tuesday, she replied with a shrug, but Rebecca decided she wanted to tell you and Harri in person, we’re off to Harri’s half term next weekend.

I couldn’t believe it, I was going to be an aunt, and more importantly, Rebecca would be a mother. I didn’t doubt that she and Philip would make excellent parents. The others were almost as excited as I was although Tish was prone to making jokes about how I would have to be all sensible and grown up and boring so as to set a good example to my niece or nephew. What would you prefer, asked Lucy. I don’t mind, I replied, it’s Rebecca’s baby, not mine. In my heart I was hoping for a niece, but I would be happy either way.

Dear Sam,

You’ll never guess what! I’m going to be an aunt. Rebecca and Philip are due a baby in April. Tish, of course, keeps making jokes about respectable maiden aunts and the like. Still, it’s all very exciting and I’ve been trying to follow knitting patterns for baby things, only they’re so tiny it’s awfully fiddly to do! Have so much work to do for the schol, so sorry this is so terribly short, still it will all be over in a few weeks. Hope you are well,

Ever your, Sharlie.

Dear Sharlie,

Thanks for your note, it’s excellent news! Also hope all goes well with the schol since I guess it’ll nearly be upon you when you get this. There’s not much to report from this end. A few of the chaps are concerned about Korea but since nobody really wants another war the main focus is still on Stalin and what he’s got up his sleeve. I’m being posted out to Germany in the new year, probably to Berlin since there’s a lot going on out there right now. It’ll be strange but hopefully I’ll feel as though I’m doing something useful. Take care of yourself.

Always, Sam.

 

#629:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:13 am

Ahhh, some good news - and some potentially not so good news!


Thank you Trevor MacPimold

 

#630:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:26 pm

Yay for Rebecca!
Sure Sharlie will be a great Auntie!

 

#631:  Author: Alex, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:49 pm

My grandpa was posted to Germany sometime after the war. The way my Nan tells it, they lived in someones house which was requisitioned by the army and the man who owned the house lived in a shed at the bottom of the garden!

Not sure how shed like it was or if it was more of a granny flat type thing.

 

#632:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:19 am

Thanks Pimsie-Wimsie-Woodlekins.

If on;y Sharlie had been born later, she could have had Sam and University.

 

#633:  Author: Emily, Location: Land of White Coats and Stethoscopes. PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:20 pm

This is so lovely and sparkly Pimnochio, thank you. But Sam is NOT going to be killed in Germany, is he?? Please? The only person to whom she can give her complete trust? Surely?

 

#634:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:28 pm

The scholarship examinations seemed surprisingly easy although Lucy struggled with her Oxford ones, which did lead me to wonder a little. However, once they were over I was able to sit back, relax and think about taking things easy for a while. I call it cruelty to dumb animals making us wait for the results, moaned Lucy after we’d finished, waiting for school cert was bad enough, this is going to kill me! I could only laugh, I’d waited for results so often that I’d learned to not let it bother me. I felt sorry for Nicole as the end of term approached; we’d all been so busy with our own concerns that we hadn’t given her half the attention she deserved. We organised a small party for her, which made her cry. I wish I wasn’t leaving, she said. Think of all the fun you’ll have in Australia though, pointed out Tish, and mind you send us a postcard or two to cheer us up whilst we’re slogging away here!

I headed back to Liverpool for Christmas where I’d be spending most of the time at Rebecca’s. It seems so odd to think of your Rebecca being a mother by Easter, Aunt Jane said to me. Do you ever regret not having children of your own, I asked. Oh I did for a while, she replied with a sigh, but you and your sisters, not to mention David and Caroline, have more than made up for it. I smiled, I’d often wondered whether Aunt Jane missed having a family of her own and it was nice to know that she considered us in that way. Christmas was a pleasant affair, Rebecca joked that there was hardly any room to move in her house with all the baby clothes that had been knitted. It’s all going to be so different from how we grew up Sharlie, she said to me one night, I only hope my children don’t have to go through half what we did. I knew that Rebecca would do everything she could to give her family the life they deserved. Rebecca, if you ever need any help you know you only have to ask, I said. Thank you Sharlie, that means a lot to me.

 

#635:  Author: Mora, Location: Lancaster PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:31 pm

Awwwww poor Nicole. And awwww Aunt Jane. And awwww Rebecca is so sweet. Thanks Pim. *crosses fingers for Sharlie's results*

 

#636:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:05 pm

Thanks Pimposie!
Also fingers crossed for Sharlie's and Lucy's results!

 

#637:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:12 pm

Ahhhhhh Lovely post Pim the Merciless.

 

#638:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:16 pm

Thanks for all the lovely updates, I really enjoyed them.

 

#639:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:55 pm

Thank you Pimpomapompim!

May we have some more please? *looks superangelic and opens wide, pleading eyes*

 

#640:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:23 pm

*chokes violently at Kat's attempts to look superangelic!*

I've been reading this from the start, but have somehow not got around to responding. I've loved it all and would like more! Please Pimalkin?

 

#641:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:17 pm

Lulie wrote:
*chokes violently at Kat's attempts to look superangelic!*


*Blows large raspberry at Lulie* Razz

 

#642:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:15 pm

Lesley wrote:
Thank you Trevor MacPimold


*snickers* I'm seriously debating changing my user name to Trevor now...

My scholarship results came back a couple of days before I headed back to school. I would be off to London in September, it just didn’t seem real. It would be my first steps into the unknown and I was torn between being terrified and excited. Two years in London and then who knew where. Lucy had sailed through the Oxford examinations, to no one’s surprise except hers. I honestly thought I wouldn’t get in, she said to me, I still keep reading that letter thinking that it will change and I won’t have a place anymore. I knew that feeling only too well. It’s funny, said Tish, this time next year everything will be so different. But we’ll stay in touch, said Lucy, and we’ll visit each other of course, I haven’t been to London in years Sharlie so I’m expecting an invite. And you’ll have to invite me as well, put in Tish. London won’t know what’s hit it, I said with a giggle. I missed Annie and Nicole of course, but it had always been Lucy and Tish who I turned to first. I couldn’t imagine my life without them.

Dear Sam,

Schol results came through and guess what! I’m off to London in September. I’m not sure if I should be excited or terrified, it still hasn’t quite sunk in. I expect Lucy’s told you she got in at St Hilda’s, as if there was ever any doubt! Tish is all set for Bedford as well. I can’t believe how settled everything is now, and all so different from last year. As far as I know Rebecca is well, I can’t help but wonder if I’ll be an aunt by the time I get back to Liverpool. We’re working pretty hard at the moment which is just as well because the weather’s foul. Our lacrosse match was rained off last week, Tish was out on the pitch shaking her fists at the sky… bless her, she’s quite mad. Seem to be out of time, so hope all’s well in Germany. Take care of yourself,

Every your, Sharlie.

Dear Sharlie,

Excellent news on the schol, I never doubted you for a moment. Nor Lucy for that matter, she is a silly old fusspot as far as study’s concerned – and she always had twice the brains that I have! I can just imagine Tish the games mistress – although I think I’d be terrified of her if she taught me – she’s a bit keen that one. Berlin is a pretty strange place to be right now, it seems like such a fantastic city only old Stalin and his blockade aren’t helping. Frankly I find it all a bit daft, the world still hasn’t recovered from the war and Stalin’s behaving like this. It makes you wonder. I’m well though, and washing behind my ears, so don’t worry too much!

Always, Sam.

 

#643:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:12 pm

Oh well done Sharlie Very Happy

And I love these letters between her and Sam. Hope he'll be OK in post-war Berlin Confused

thanks Pim Very Happy

 

#644:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:21 pm

yay more

Really hoping that life is less of a rollercoaster from now on.

 

#645:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:22 pm

pim wrote:
Lesley wrote:
Thank you Trevor MacPimold


*snickers* I'm seriously debating changing my user name to Trevor now...


And she has! Laughing

pim wrote:
I’m well though, and washing behind my ears, so don’t worry too much!


LOL! Laughing

Thank you Pimtiticaca!

 

#646:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:36 pm

Yay for Sharlie and Lucy Party
Also loving the letters!

 

#647:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:47 pm

Lovely post, thanks. Very Happy

 

#648:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:47 pm

lots of lovely shiny new bits - thanks Pim Laughing

Liz

 

#649:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:57 pm

Thank you Pimdicca!!!!

Glad Sharlie got her scholarship! And that's lovely about Rebecca's baby!

 

#650:  Author: Mora, Location: Lancaster PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:18 pm

Yay for Sharlie! Very Happy I only just noticed the way she and Sam sign their letters- it's so sweet.

 

#651:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:53 pm

Piiiiiiiiiiimmycakes, it's been ages since you last posted, may we have some more?!

*Pleads desperately*


(Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmycakes to tune of 'babycake' by someone or other!!)

 

#652:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:11 pm

More soon PLEASE Pimmy-wimmy-zim-zam!

 

#653:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:21 am

Quote:
I think I’d be terrified of her if she taught me – she’s a bit keen that one.

*agrees with Sam on that one*

Glad to see things going well for Sharlie. Thanks, Pim!

 

#654:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:53 am

Kat, it had been about 3 hours!

Spring term was quick and quiet and I soon found myself back in Liverpool with no sign of my niece or nephew. You’ve got to stop being so impatient Sharlie, Elizabeth would say with a laugh, go and look after David and Caroline, it’ll be good practice for teaching. Elizabeth had grown up so much since she’d left school. Just short of her eighteenth birthday she was incredibly mature and sophisticated with a social life to match, Days and nights passed her by in a blur, she was always off somewhere. They seemed to think a lot of her at the company she worked for and she was steadily working her way through the ranks. I like working there, she said to me, but I’m not sure I can spend the rest of my life there, let’s face it Sharlie, there’s a whole world out there and I intend to see it. In Elizabeth I saw my earlier dreams, and it struck me how easily it could have been me in a her situation if I’d never had the chances I’d had. Now I knew it wouldn’t have suited me, but it was so right for Elizabeth.

Sarah Janet Haughton made her appearance in the world ten days after I arrived back for the holidays. Philip came round to tell us at Aunt Jane’s with the biggest grin I had ever seen. We hugged each other, we hugged him in the excitement of it all. I can still picture the first time I visited Rebecca and Sarah. I’d never seen Rebecca looking so happy, she looked tired but the happiness just took over her whole face. The first time I held my niece was the most amazing experience. Was it a maternal instinct? I wasn’t sure, I just knew that I would do everything I possible could to help Sarah. Rebecca, she’s perfect, I whispered, and you named her for mam. Rebecca grinned, I couldn’t not, even though I know her and da are always watching, I still wish they could be here now. Don’t we all, I murmured, half to myself.

Dear Tish,

Well that’s it! I’m an aunt, isn’t it frightfully grown up!? She arrived two days ago, Sarah Janet – Janet for mam. Both babs and Rebecca are doing well. Sarah is just amazing, of course I’m not biased! Hope you’re having good hols, see you shortly,

Sharlie.

Dear Sharlie,

Great news! Gosh, I suppose that means you’ll be going all boring and sensible on us next term then won’t you in practice for being the maiden aunt of the family? Having fairly quiet hols down here, nothing at all to report. See you soon,

Tish

 

#655:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:15 am

*How could you spurn my email Pimmer Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad *

Lots of lovely posts to catch up on, very interesting to see her corresponding with Sam, i'm glad they are still friends. I'm do happy for Rebecca as well. Thank you Pimostocles Very Happy

 

#656:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:48 pm

Ohhhh that post was so warm and cosy!

 

#657:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:57 pm

pim wrote:
Kat, it had been about 3 hours!


But 3 hours can be a very long time Laughing

Thanks Pim

Liz

 

#658:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:26 pm

Thanks, Pim.

 

#659:  Author: Rebecca, Location: Kendal/Oxford PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:53 pm

Lovely, Pimblykins! I'm feeling all cosy now!

 

#660:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:16 pm

Lovely Pimagogo.

Sharlie is so sympathetically drawn and reacts so naturally to events like the birth. Beautiful.

 

#661:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:35 pm

Awwww!!! Bless!!!

thank you Pimble de bimbles!

 

#662:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:22 pm

pim wrote:
Kat, it had been about 3 hours!


And?!

****


It really has been ages now Pimbasimba, may we have more???? Very Happy

 

#663:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:53 pm

Awww bless!

Thanks Pimafone Very Happy

 

#664:  Author: Kathye, Location: Laleham PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 7:32 pm

Thanks Pim,

Its really nice to see her getting to grips with her life as an adult and being able to move on from the horror of the war years.

Hope to see some more soon.......

*Ever Hopeful me* Wink

 

#665:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:38 pm

Thanks Pimander.

 

#666:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:13 pm

I was going to update the leader board tonight but I've had a crap beyond crap day and am not in the right frame of mind for it. *goes off to curl up into a defensive little ball wishing the world would go away*

I was sorry to go back to school after the holidays; partly because I knew how much Sarah would grow up whilst I was away, partly because it would be my last term. Isn’t it strange, said Tish, time goes so quickly when you don’t want it to. There wasn’t much call for walking so we spent a lot of time out of doors or amusing ourselves indoors when it rained. The juniors would always complain that they didn’t want me to leave when it was my turn to look after them. I took it as a compliment and hoped that it would transfer over when I started teaching. Tish continued a triumphant reign as games captain as one match after another was won. I got a few tennis matches in the second pair but I still didn’t think I was that good. Tish just laughed and told me to stop putting myself down. Half term came and went, the weeks flew and soon we could count down the days left on our fingers. Letters arrived regularly from Annie, and finally we heard from Nicole.

Dear Lucy, Tish and Sharlie.

Sorry this won’t be long but it costs a small fortune to post things over to you. Melbourne isn’t too bad after all – makes a very welcome change from London it has to be said. Dad’s settling in well to his job, if they really like him then he and mum might stay out here. I’m not sure what I want to do really. I went along and spoke to some people at the university here and I’ve managed to enrol on a one year English course – if I end up staying out here then they’ll let me go straight on to the degree. I wish I were back at school though, I always loved summer term. It’s winter here so I’m really missing out and it just isn’t fair! I’ve made friends with a couple of girls our age who live nearby, but they’re just not you three. Still I realise that I should be making the most of this chance. Thinking of you all,

Nicole

Dear Tish, Lucy and Sharlie.

Summer term and almost the end of it at that, gosh how time has flown since last summer! Well I hope you three can find time in your busy schedules to make it to my wedding at the beginning of September. You remember me telling you about Mark Littleton, don’t you? His father worked with mine before the war; Mark and I have known each other for years. Well it’s him, we realised shortly after Christmas that we wanted to be little more than passing acquaintances. Don’t be mad at me for not telling you before, but we wanted to see how things panned out first. Mother was a bit taken aback by it all, and so are we, neither of us expected things to move so quickly. But we are happy and I’m sure you’ll all like Mark. I hope everything’s well at school, especially games Tish. Good luck for your final school exams!

Love, Annie.

 

#667:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:15 pm

Thank you, Pimbulous.

 

#668:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:47 pm

Hope day is going better now hon!
Thanks for updating Sharlie for us!

 

#669:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:41 am

Thank you Pimkin!

*and sympathetic huggles over the crap day!*

 

#670:  Author: Miss Di, Location: Newcastle, NSW PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:42 am

Thank you for posting more despite your terrible horrible no good very bad day.

Hope it is better tomorow (so you can post MORE!)

 

#671:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:42 am

thank you Pim. I do hope today is better for you.

 

#672:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:40 am

poke Pim's horrible day - hope today is better

So glad Annie made her own choice of husband.

Thanks Pim

Liz

 

#673:  Author: Guest,  PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:46 am

Big hugs Pim. Hope you're okay sweetie and that today isn't so horrid. Ahhhhhh

thanks for the update too.

 

#674:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:49 am

Sorry, that was me - forgto to logn in!! D'oh!

 

#675:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:26 pm

Pim-pimperoo!! Thank you for the update Pimosaurus Very Happy

 

#676:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:37 pm

Just caught up since Thursday!!! Loads of lovely posts thank you, Pimperetta! Hope today is better than yesterday was *hugs* Very Happy

 

#677:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:04 pm

Things are still pretty crap, having a small RL crisis regarding my best friend from home making me a very wibblesome Pim Sad

The day before we broke up was prize giving. Tish, Lucy and I were in the hall setting out chairs that morning when I got a summons to Miss Fairacre’s study. Sit down Charlotte, she said to me, there’s no need to look so worried, I just though we should have a talk before you go off into the wide world. I relaxed a little with that. We had a pleasant talk, looking back over the last eight years and forward to the future. Yes, she said to me as the conversation drew to its close, we most certainly made the right choice with you. Thank you, was the only reply I could manage. I hope you have a wonderful time in London, I’m sure you’ll be very successful in everything you do – keep reaching for the sky Charlotte.

I stood with the others on the drive at lunchtime watching the crowds of parents arrive. I felt that little pang I always got knowing that there would be no one for me. But then I spotted someone I knew so well in the crowd. Aunt Jane, I shrieked fighting my way through the younger girls’ reunions with their parents. Well now Sharlie, she said to me laughingly, I thought I should get a look at this fancy school of yours before you left it since I’ve heard so much about it. I was reminded of that half term I’d had with mam all those years ago. A few people stared at Aunt Jane but I didn’t care. She and I had come a long way since mam had died. She would never replace mam but it was a different kind of love. Aunt Jane never stopped smiling all day. I’m so proud Sharlie, she said at the end of it, and your mam and da would be twice as proud again.

The following day Tish, Lucy and I stood on the school steps for the final time. We’ll always stay in touch, said Tish. My mind played back the last eight years, we’d all come so far, even Annie and Nicole who had gone on to other things. We were nineteen years old, our lives stretched ahead of us and no one could predict what would happen in the future but the world was ours for the taking. The future was what we would make of it. Our immediate futures were settled, but the bigger picture had yet to be painted.

************************************

End of Part I. Look out for Part II (Sharlie Andrews - The University Years) coming soon. Given RL crisis my writing's gone on the back burner, but shoudl hopefully have some stuff to post over the weekend.

 

#678:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:19 pm

*Hugs Pimistere*

I hope RL sorts itself out hunny, we can wait patiently for part two but I'm already looking forward to it! Very Happy

 

#679:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:19 pm

Thank you for Part 1, Pim.

Do you want us to come to sort out your 'friend', or just to poke RL with a large, heavy stick?


poke RL

 

#680:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:47 pm

Thanks Pim - that was a lovely end to Part I - looking forward to Part II when it comes

Hope RL & your friend are soon ok

Liz

 

#681:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:50 pm

Lovely Pim! Thank you! Very Happy

*huggles for the RL stuff - hope it sorts itself out soon!*

 

#682:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:15 pm

That's great, Pim. Looking forward to the university years when you've kicked RL into submission.

 

#683:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:25 pm

Thank you so much Pim - wonderful first part.


Hope that RL settles down.


Superpim!

 

#684:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:46 pm

Thank you Pimsaveta!!!

Hope RL starts playing nicely soon!

 

#685:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:13 pm

Thank you Pimberry.

Brilliant first part, wonderful to read (you're getting too good at cliffs though Razz Wink ) Can't wait for Part 2, yay!

*Helpfully pokes RL for Pimtoinette*

 

#686:  Author: Kim, Location: Tipperary, Ireland PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:18 pm

thanks for this Pim - looking forward to part 2

hope RL gets sorted soon

 

#687:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:04 pm

Thanks for the update Pim, esp. give the circumstances.

Huge hugs to you and your friend
xx

 

#688:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:31 pm

I love this drabble so much, thanks for all that you have written so far-even the parts that have made me cry!
Hope that RL gets sorted out soon.

 

#689:  Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:46 pm

Thankyou Pim - I haven't said much but have been quietly enjoying this drabble!

I'm really looking forward to the University Years.

Sending lots of hugs for the RL crisis - hope it gets sorted soon.

 

#690:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:21 am

Thank you Pim! Wonderful, have loved the first part of this and am eagerly awaiting Part II.

Hope things get sorted with your friend. *hugs*

 

#691:  Author: jackie green, Location: Rotherham PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:51 am

Thank you so much for this Pim, I've enjoyed every word you have written, you make it all seem so real.
I hope RL doesn't get you down too much, let us know if we can help!
looking forward to part II
xx

 

#692:  Author: Emily, Location: Land of White Coats and Stethoscopes. PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:56 am

Very much looking forward to part II, hoping RL doesn't get you down too much.

 

#693:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:15 pm

Thank you so much for part one Pimtalatina. It has been wonderful, and one of the drabbles that has drawn me back here time and time again.

Hope RL realises that Pimnold Schwarzenpimger will poke it if it doesn't leave her in peace for a while. Or that the CBB will do so on her behalf!!

Look forward to part two with interest, sure that Pimlicious will have even better things in store. Razz

(Had to gets lots of Pimlical names in as I've not posted much this last few days!)

 

#694:  Author: Mora, Location: Lancaster PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 6:30 pm

Thank you Pim! Just caught up on the last few posts and they are all beautiful.

Hope RL sorts itself out soon. *hugs*

 

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