Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill in the Australian Bush, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town, the other a classy city girl, both set their caps for Jim. Will true love triumph? Will Jim's dog ever get his dinner? Will Jim ever get his tongue untied? These and other questions are answered in this story in rhyme. (Summary by Son of the Exiles)
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Don't feel you need to PL them all straightaway, Sonia, I liable won't be recording more for some days. My Saturday next recording session, I'm scheduled for the dentist.
SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑July 6th, 2018, 10:43 pm
First four sections posted.
Don't feel you need to PL them all straightaway, Sonia, I liable won't be recording more for some days.
I had time now and binge-listened to your Australian bloke-poem It already started great with this axe swinging melodiously. You got into rhythm there and I thought you'd break out into song any moment.
Jim is the typical hunk of course, but I was surprised he won the fight...hearing you talk before I thought Ben would be the mean winner. But this was actually totally blokey-matey and they're all chums again at the end. I hope the widow will never find out that Jim doesn't have the hots for her at all
SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑July 14th, 2018, 9:28 pm
Section 5 - The Vision has been submitted.
Jim is sort of the anti-particle to Doreen's Bill, savoir-faire wise.
yes so true, he is the typical tongue-tied hunk around beautiful women. I guess this trick works on the vision though and there will be a happy-ending to the story.
btw I love his world-wise dog
flawless chapter again, totally PL ok. Looking forward to the next
nice job again and totally PL ok. I liked Bob Blair, he seems to be a man of sound mind. Maybe reading wouldn't be so bad for Jim In any case, the one thing he shouldn't do is agreeing to join this strike, if he thinks personally that the boss and wages were fair. In the end he would be punished as the "leader" even though it was another one's idea. Not fair to let him carry the can. He should rethink his "friends".
SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑August 4th, 2018, 10:34 pm"Hurray!" she says, an then, "Encore!"
An' gets me wonderin' what for."
ah the famous line has appeared ! Jim's final sentence was so adorable. Of course, Nell roped him in and not the other way around. So will it be straightforward towards happy end from now on or will he make more blunders ?
indeed, this tea-session was quite daunting for poor Jim. And I hope his yarn of losing all his money is not his doom with the Vision. If the widow runs around town and sets the rumours out, Jim's love may not be interested in him anymore either. I think he should have been honest with the widow and not choose this wriggly way out.
I hope I can live up to my honorary title.
