Thursdays in the Park

Hi All
I have some FREE short stories on my little website. Two are about romance for us older teenagers!! Look at www.janecarling.co.uk and feel free tocomment. I am a new and so far unpublished writer.

I had those dolls anno. Twins. My mum used to knit clothes for them. Lovely!

WW once had a pair of small dolls, a brunette and a blonde, which my mum used to dress using patterns from the magazine. She just loved dressing dolls.

I loved the Robin family(my mother had Woman's Weekly delivered) and thought about them today wheni bought a beautiful robin tree decoration from the fair trade shop. But I liked Curly Wee and Gussie Goose better. Would they allow a children's cartoon (2 pictures and verse daily)with names like that now?
And disliked the book even for 20 p-so patronising of the press to be suprised to think that an old person can write . Should be mouldering in a care home with crumbs down her front is what I felt the newspaper reporter really felt

Hey! I started this thread!

I want commission!

She is probably well in the top sellers still. All the lurkers, all one thousand four hundred odd, will have bought it just to see.

Probably 20p is the correct value! It keep me going through a train journey delayed, by the floods, but not believable and the number of varieties of relationships made it more so. annodomini you are right Why all the fuss?

I thought it would be a bit bad tbh.

Don't know how she came to be on the Today programme. There was enough news about.

Sounds awful! I won't be bothering...

Finished reading 'Thursdays in the Park' and must agree with Ariadne!! Undemanding read, could have been better!! Characters quite bland, and could have had more substance. Why oh Why did Jeanie put up with dipppy George for soooooo long!!!!! His 'hidden secret' did not ring true at all. The awful 'baby language' really annoyed me, very difficult to translate to paper well. Not my usual genre of literature, I prefer something a bit more demanding and rewarding.

There are plenty of books out there on Kindle written by people of 60+ about our age group and and about the 1950s and 1960s which we might find interesting. I can't see what all the fuss is about. I dislike 'chicklit' and 'grannylit' might be what we're looking for. Try 'The Azalea Garden' on Kindle.

Very well-heeled granlit. I suppose it would have complicated matters if the protgagonists had been claiming pension credits and housing benefits instead of living in £million houses. I can't say I will be moved to read any further books she may write. The plot is a bit of a cliché and the dialogue stiff - more like speechifying than natural give and take. Having said that, I read it to find out what happened. I can't understand all the fuss about it. Would that have happened if the writer and characters had been 30 -40 somethings rather than babyboomers?

It was OK as a comfort read - undemanding.

The author seems to be doing well 60+ or not as she has sold the film rights to the book and it will be made next year so her bank manager will be happy I should think.

She wrote an article about it in the Telegraph today! Made me interested and I might buy it - don't have a Kindle so it will have to be a real book!

I haven't read it but everything I have read about it reminds me of Ria in 'Butterflies' but possibly with more sex than the Beeb could show at that time.

Because my mind had cast Martin Shaw as the 'hero' (Ray - I think MS was Ray in the Professionals all those years ago) it was quite fun. I usually read crime/thrillers so this was a complete change and it was a little difficult not to keep thinking 'unbelievable rubbish' but so are my usual reading matter. I just accept that Jack Reacher is invincible which is just as silly as the ending of this book which I still shan't reveal. It was better than hoovering which is what I should have been doing

Did you enjoy it though???

Finished book. Won't post more because I don't want to give away who dunnit.

Thought I'd follow the recommendations having read the thread and discover I downloaded it at the beginning of the month and it is awaiting reading (will have to be behind the new Maeve Binchy and the new John Grisham which my lovely library have got for me as I was first in the queue!)

And the robin family!!!

I quite like Womans Weekly. Not so daft as the other ones. Good for recipes.

About halfway or a little more through the book (well it is my first download so it's a novelty) and it reminds me in tone of the short stories in ' Womans' Weekly'. I admit I used to buy it like a comfort blanket as my Gran bought it then my mother but it didn't work for me. Anyway, the book so far reminds me of those stories but perhaps will end with a murder - don't tell me if anyone knows the end.

Still pleased about the kindle reader download though.

hear hear

I heard her on today this morning too and read all about it in a Sunday magazine last weekend. She said some very good things about sixty-something women which the young journalist interviewing her seemed to find new and amazing. Where's she been in her thirty-something world. Has she no mother?!
Things like: we're the baby boomers (!!) and we're used to dressing well and fashionably, we dye our hair, have Botox (yuk not this one!), are educated....blah blah. Then she went and spoiled it all by having a go at flat shoes and trousers with elasticated waists. Personally, I wouldn't trade my jegginngs and Hotter shoes for anything and have discovered elasticated denim trousers which look just like jeans. If being a modern older woman means anything, it's noy having to be a slave to fashion anymore.
Nuff said!!