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Interesting that Cathy
seems to be accepting this inheritance without question.
I'd give her time
who knows what she may do with the house......Cathy is nothing, If not a law unto herself !
Kirri
A Less Strenuous Cliff Hanger
The last man in the world sat in his room. Somebody knocked on the door. Hmmm? No, yours is better.
Portia
Portia
Potential
Wonder if Lady Cameron is going to get some more insights into her schooldays as seen by one of her teachers. It might give her another perspective to effect a more balanced or reasoned view of a tormented childhood.
In my forties and fifties I sometimes mused what it would have been like to talk to those who had suzerainty over me but it never happened. All notes seemingly 'disappeared' all witnesses seemingly dead or 'not available'. Believe me, if finding out who your real parents are is difficult for an adopted child, it's a damned sight harder to find out anything about your childhood if you've been a rejected child.
Cathy may have been lucky to gain another's insight into her schooldays but there again she might not.
We readers will just have to be patient then wait and see.
Looking forward to the next chapters,
Still lovin' it.
Glad you got over your cold Angie and hope you enjoyed Saturday night.
Beverly.
OXOXOX
Growing old disgracefully.
brilliant line
'...with Watts being a girl playing a boy being a girl pretending to be a boy and failing miserably...' I laughed and thought, exactly. Of course Charlie was a bit upset but Cathy shrugs and says..yep. Ah Ang, very good and a nice little potentially revalatory cliff hangery thingie...err is that a sentence? Anyway, keep it comin'.
Kris
The only girl… ?
In a group that large, perhaps not. There may well have been two or three others. Perhaps Cathy should do a little follow-up research on her classmates?
Still going strong after this long!
Cathy Cameron's Schooldays
I can't help but reflect on how much more than for cis-people, a transgendered person's schooldays are a major part of their development as an individual. That certainly comes through in Bike.
Thanks A+B: It's really going to be interesting just what Cathy discovers in Whitehead's journal and files. Certainly the photos seem to have surprised her, and sound like the sorts of things she'll treasure.
I note that in the comments on Part 1262, yesterday, mention was made of the Bike Map showing the relative locations of places in Easy As Falling Off A Bike. The link below my signature will take you to mittfh's Bike Resources page, where there's a link to the Bike Map. I have just added two further locations in the light of recent Bikesodes: Winston Churchill Avenue and Clarendon Road, Southsea.
Past Schooling
Bike Resources
Bike Resources
Yep the place is big enough
... for her brood I think. She is no longer at Tom's mercy with regard to having a home of her own.
Now, another chapter begins for our heroine as she now has an opportunity to really put closure into that part of her past.
Kim
Well Cathy might now have to pay too much
Unless I've misread it, inheritance tax as UK law seems to have the concept of exemption allowance transfer between spouses so she may very well be exempt for the first 600K. But then I have never been much at law. In any event, she gets a nil rate of 300K minimum but 40% of any above that is a really huge amount of money. May she can get a mortgage from High Street bank to cover the inheritance balance? I hear she knows someone in the business :).
Kim
Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1263
I can see Jenny, Julie, Maureen, Simon, Stella, and even Tom drooling over the Jag.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Wow
Angharad,
Having just completed my weekly omnibus edition of EAFOAB, all I can say is wow.
From laughing about lollipops, to weeping about Whitehead, your ability to draw emotions and feelings from at least this one of your band of followers highlights your strength and ability as a writer.
Now, we have a mystery journal. I for one hope it is a case of ‘the games afoot’
Love to all
Anne G.
The way Cathy keeps on
The way Cathy keeps on collecting houses, you could almost believe she will eventually have enough for each child in the family to have their own when they either marry or leave home to be on their own. Mr. Whitehead's home sounds really, really nice and just might be the ticket for all the members of the family to move into and actually have some real room for them all.
Mortice/Mortise -- Who Cares?
"I climbed the steps to the front door and undid the mortice and Yale locks".
I have no idea why I know this -- I have NOTHING to do with woodworking but I believe the correct spelling is 'mortise'. Of course, nowadays, you can check that sort of thing on the Internet but (A) I'm terminally lazy, and (B) I'm busy reading my favorite BGTS serial.
Yours from the Great White North,
Jenny Grier (Mrs.)
x
Yours from the Great White North,
Jenny Grier (Mrs.)
According to my Pocket Oxford
I know, I have big pockets, it's either, so ya nearly caught me. (I use a dictionary not a spell checker, but only for words I'm unsure of. Which means of course I can be wrong but unwittingly so. None of us is perfect, or maybe that should be none of you, I'm so close I can almost taste it.)
Angharad
Angharad
Mortice/Shmortise
Both are correct, indifferently, as Angharad sagely observed, although it could have been rosemerrily. Depends entirely on whom you ask.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
FWIW
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Sixth Edition accepts mortice as a noun and verb that's a variation of mortise.
The variant used here didn't detract from my reading of this Bikesode.
BTW Angharad, you'd need especially large pockets to accommodate the two doorstop-sized physical volumes of the SOED6. Fortunately it also comes with a software version, which is eminently more useable.
Particular Spellings
Bike Resources
Bike Resources
I'd need deep pockets
to pay for it, too!
Angharad
Angharad
Looks like Cathy has a backup home
besides her parents old home. Recently some mentioned how sad it was that a life time passion was dispersed to the winds. It applies in this case.
The Jag sounds interesting.
Seems more of an estate than a house. the furnishing are more than not not quite wothy1
Cefin