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a beautiful story wonderfully told. Graeme was concerned about superlatives increasing the size of Mark 's head - not sure that's a problem ((and there are so many places a clever writer could go with that statemnet), however provided he keeps writing his head can get as big as he (or anyone else) likes!!! suicide is a selfish decision, however in many ways it is just as selfish to tell someone not to commit suicide due to the hurt it will cause the surviviors.

Mark:worship: , yes, you did manage to write it very well. I find the whole issue of sex with minors utterly revolting and unitelligible, but I think what you managed to show was a child trying to make sense of what he was feeling and seeing and an adult who understood. i would however suggest that you and anyone else who writes on or around this issue to be careful; one phrase, taken out of context by someone, who wants to make a point, can cause serious damage. Almost against my better judgement, I am starting to enjoy the Box more!!! - of course Grainger is and always will be my favourite! - so, Mark just keep writing!

agree, and I have a photo of tab/stef that fits perfectly ..... however I can't get it to load!! as for Ian... hmm...ok, definately wouldn't toss him out, but he's not first in line to get into my bed either.....

that's funny...in my case BWS doesn't start at my toes...... but 5% of my body is about right..... no, on second thoughts this is not a place to be bashful ...it's about 5.5% .....

I am not sure it's the distance from Somalia that's stopping me .......

BTW Mark I did mean to thank you for this latest installment. I do love Granger's sheer enjoyment of sex with the people he cares about and that he seriously does care about the people he has sex with - perhaps except the Duke of Clarence - that seems to be a bit more of a career-advancing f**k than anything more caring.

I should have been a pirate......

cavendish would make one hellishly sexy pirate......

Dearest Mark , I can see that I could never be one of your "team"; they criticize you!! You will recall I tried that once, when I was young(er) and niaeve and you sent me a very nice note pointing out very subtly that I was wrong and what I should read to fix my "wrongness". So ever since then while others may be abe to criticize, I am happy if I can just keep worshiping..... now as far as an ending...we need a wedding; no bombs, though, just a wedding. secondly we would like it to happen soon...so that you can write more about Granger <sigh>.

Yes, Yes, YES !!! I haven't even read it yet and i am feeling So much better....

Many Happy Returns, may your wishes become reality and your reality be all you can wish for.... with best wishes from the far side of the world.....

Ok Mark , here's a deal - we won't bitch if you post? heh? good one? please...? It has got to the stage where coffee just isn't doing it for me I NEED Granger!!! I am a man in lust..... <sigh> I just hope those students REALLY appreciate you, though I am sure they cannot appreciate you as much as your adoring and dare I say it, psychotic, fans of your writing..... ok, so no posting... back to my coffee, to gaze into it's crema where images of Granger's arse ("ass" in American? - and I am not refering to his horse) come and go...... like I said ...psychotic.....

busy? yes what what about OUR suffering??? My partner is starting to suspect something as I call out in my dreams for this mysterious (to him) "Granger".... dearest dearest Mark , if you could just forget that seething mass of ungrateful, unwashed gits you call "students", just for one day and remember us, us your loyal , devoted (dare I say intelligent?) readers..... please..... Hey! if you need help, I can stick gold stars and elephant stamps on adolescent ramblings as fast as anyone! all I ask is more Granger more of the time.... not unreasonable? <sigh> all the best from the far side of the world......

Mark , I agree. George III, meddled in politics and played a far too active role in the government. His son George IV for all his faults largely left Parliament to function - when he came to the throne he didn't throw out his father's government, as they had popular support. He did get annoyed at what his governmnet did but didn't try and overrule it... so all in all GIV may not be a perfect King, but at least he let the Government of the day govern. Now, it's Tuesday...... (here i Australia anyway....!)...... .

while a few stories ago I would have put JP as my "favourite" character, i like Stef's transformation; JP's transformation has been his losening, Stef's has been from pseudo-rent boy, through mega developer and housewife to a latter day Tonto - making a most interesting character. That said all the characters' "defend the family" attitude to all issues strikes me as a little too Republican for my taste.

BTW, no contest - Travers is the LOHL. Cavendish is pretty, available and willing, but after the great sex who would you rather have a conversation with Cavendish or Travers? no contest, as far as I am concerned.... I'd set up house with Travers and treasure the memory of Cavendish.

latest chapter: bloody brilliant! sex, intrigue and a great ending without being a completely articificial cliffhanger!! Mark , you are a wonder. You do seem to have a predilection for large cocks. the way you lovingly decscribe Cavendish's would imply that you see one like it, often????? i can imagine that Grainger is going to have another success at sea , but Wilcox will interpret it as disobedience and so the drama continues. I love it!!!

without getting all gynaecological, technically it could be possible to be pregnant for that long; if the woman concerned miscarried at the end of the first trimester and then became pregnant again - it could just seem like the first two trimesters were very long...... Now there's a plot twist!

only two??? slacker!!

as far as social rank, of course the Bridgemonts have it over the cavendishes as the Bridgemonts are ficticious, however to be socially "ahead" of the cavendishes at the time would have made them in the top two or three families..... ie bloody high in the social stratum of the day. if this were the case the Wilcox family would have had to be one of those top two or three familes to be able to treat Grainger the ay they do. It would probably make sense if the Bridgemonts are slightly lower (ie top dozen families) but on the up, the Wilcoxes top dozen but struggling and the cavendishes top three/four with no worries..... this "ranking" would give the various struggles and alliances verisimillitude. Mark , thanks again. brilliant. may you become independantly wealthy and so this wretched day-job can be ditched!!!

Oh! I misunderstood - I thought the "sharing forum" was to share information..... I now see it's about sharing other things...... , so Mark , when you're next in Australia......

Ch10 was bloody marvellous!! sexual tension, political infighting, and a decent batttle with significant ramifications. Mark , you are a bloody wonder! agree, Wilcox won't be disgraced by this as he'll have his defence all lined up, but it will be one of those chinks in his armour that people like Bridgemont (and Westminster) can use to further his son`s career. and Cavendish can`t die.... to cute, and as yet unravished!!!! the boy cannot go to his grave without knowing the delights Granger has to offer.....

methodwriter85, you may be right - I sense a tweed coat - even if it's in the closet!!!

you can see from all this they needed a little infidelity to broaden the gene pool...... as far as complex family structures mine is boringly straight (until me anyway). however my partners is deliciously complex - he's done his tree back to the mid17th century and by descent he could have claims on Westchester County(US), Aquitiane (France), and the Duchy of Cornwall(UK) among others. his mob were happy to do anyone anytime! as far as CAP; yep Nick needs his comuppance and having his son turn into a slobbering idiot over JJ would work out well. and of course there would be the inveitable proof that said son was not father by Nick as Nick is impotent, a fact that does not help his political "career". Then who fathered Nick's son???? Obviously Tonto's unknown lover (hmm chronology has run amuck at this point), perhaps tonto's unknown lover's son's the father?

OK, here's my contribution..... What's your favorite color? the colour of my lover's hair..... What's your pet's name? Pierre, oops, that's my partner (same thing? hmmm good thing he doesn't read this...yet. ) Actuall we don't have a animal pet at the moment. I used to have a labrador; Monty (Montgomery, his father was Rommel...). My partner had a cat; Irene pronounced i-rain (with the "i" short-as in "hit") . it was VERY possessive. it hated me when i moved in, but realised i fed it more regularly and so we established a truce. it took about 2 years for it to accept that i had taken its place. Are you single? no (well, not until my partner reads this) Do you like goats? hate them. I grew up on a sheep farm. On second thoughts goat is good: pan fried, neat sauce/gravy, some underdone veg... yep i like goat., What really pisses you off? intolerance and people who do not know how to argue (arguing is NOT a blood sport) Whatever you think of. think? you mean I am supposed to think? hmmm.... I suppose I think a lot about My Boy (ie my partner, dopey arsed bastard that he is - BTW in Australia these are all terms of endearment) and My Boys (ie my sons, I have 2. both great. both treat their old man with considerably less respect than he is owed.