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  1. Robert Hugill
    More action in the next episode! And there are over 40 chapters in all, so more to come...
  2. Robert Hugill
    Interesting, I never thought of it like that!
  3. Robert Hugill
    “Now, less of the guff. What’s really bugging you.” Lila glared at me. “I know you. And don’t kid me that work’s got you so involved that you’ve no room for anything else.” Lila was a big woman, prone to wearing little more than T-shirt and leggings, though today she had dressed up and had a smock over the top with a shawl for good measure. Whatever she wore, Lila did it with style. I always enjoyed her company, even when (as now) it was forced upon me. But she knew me well enough
  4. Robert Hugill
    Will happen, eventually!!
  5. Robert Hugill
    The next few weeks, Neil and I settled into some sort of routine. We did have those fish and chips (more than once), and even ate them sitting in my flat, usually followed by sex. That’s what happened: we’d do stuff and for all the world we were just friends, but then behind closed doors Neil would be different. The two worlds were kept apart. I tried talking to him about it, but he’d deflect or go silent. He didn’t do angry—more silent and surly. I hoped that in time we could move on
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    Dame Vivienne

    Robert Hugill commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Dame Vivienne

    The opening chapters are spread across quite a time period, though perhaps this is not as obvious as it could be. Also, we only get to hear Alex's point of view.
  7. Robert Hugill
    Amazing. We're still at no. 7 of the 🔎Top 10 Most Read Mystery. Many thanks to all our readers.
  8. Robert Hugill
    Well that didn't quite work did it! Yelena and Bart are based, loosely, on friends of mine from way back and they were delightful.
  9. Robert Hugill
    Waiting for buses on the journey out to see Evan saw me wool-gathering, bringing up memories. And going to see Evan made me think of Yelena (‘Yel’) and Bart, through whom I had first met him. When I knew them at uni, Yel and Bart had collected people, interesting people—or rather, people that had some sort of spark that resonated with them. Yel and Bart were artistic in the loosest sense, and they were interested in the rich minutiae of life in a way that passed me by entirely. You could
  10. Robert Hugill
    I have a few ideas but so far nothing like a real story!
  11. Robert Hugill
    Having escaped the kiddies and their concert, I realised that I was surprisingly hungry, and we had a reasonable amount of time before the evening concert. "So what do you say to walking over to The Black Hart for a drink and see what their fish and chips are like?" "Fish 'n chips?" I waggled an eyebrow. "The best in town, evidently." "Right.” He sounded dubious, but then shrugged, "OK. Give it a go." We walked towards the high street, attempting to avoid the clutches
  12. Robert Hugill
    I'm working on another story where one protagonist is a podcaster and the other is an executive coach, so we are moving away from things blue collar!
  13. Robert Hugill
    At some point, yes. Of course!
  14. Robert Hugill
    Neil's vocabulary is made up of various colloquialisms that I manage to remember, not necessarily all of the same vintage. Demotic English is far more varied and idiomatic than the TV sometimes lets us believe! 'Mebbe' for instance is a way of pronouncing maybe rather than a different word, but 'summat' is definitely a different word to 'something'. A quick google reveals this: Dialectal variant of somewhat attested from the 18th century. Joseph Wright suggested that it might be a contraction of "some that" Also, quite a lot of the kookier demotic words are often simply old survivals that poncey modern English frowns on.
  15. Robert Hugill
    Even after showering and me doing my emails whilst Neil read the news on his phone, we were out quite early. The weather was nice. There was supposed to be a good cafe in the marketplace and we had time. I suggested a walk and we set off across the common, with no particular end in sight. "Our Charlie knew he liked boys when he was at school." "Same with me." "Never struck me." "No messing about?" "Nah. Expected to have a girl…” He shrugged. "So I did.” He breathe
  16. Robert Hugill
    I had a gig at the Lieder Festival. I wasn't composer in residence—quite. But I was spending the week doing a couple of school workshops leading to a final schools’ performance on the last day of the Festival, plus some workshops with young (late teens) composers. And around this, other performances had accumulated. Dame Vivienne was performing my songs in her gala recital, which was to close the Festival. And two different young-artist duos were including songs in their recitals—one early
  17. Robert Hugill
    When writing Neil I did worry he was a bit close to Matt!
  18. Robert Hugill
    Over the next couple of months, Neil managed to weave himself into my life: drinks, the odd meal, a bit of music, and eventually even organising me into buying second-hand furniture for the flat. He seemed to have charmed Lila too—at least she never failed to mention him. >Now, how’s Dinner Hunk? “Well, he’s popped up at a few concerts. He even came to a Sheppard Singers one. >Again! Surely he’s heard that before. He can’t be that keen. “He wanted to hear the talk.”
  19. Robert Hugill
    Charlie does appear again... eventually!
  20. Robert Hugill
    When Wednesday evening came around, I was standing outside Basingstoke’s Vale View Academy really wishing I could simply book an Uber and go back to Mother's. I was wool-gathering—so much so that I didn't notice Neil arrive. He was in a similar outfit to previous, his usual it seemed. "All right?" "Hi. Thanks for doing this." He gave a grin. "No sweat. I'm just over Andover way." "Where you work?" "Live'n all. Fancy craft workshops in an old mill." “Whereabout
  21. Robert Hugill

    Uncle Edwin

    Robert Hugill commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Uncle Edwin

    That's two errors so far and I'm only three chapters in!
  22. Robert Hugill
    To say that I wasn't looking forward to lunch with Uncle Edwin was something of an understatement. He was polite and charming, true. But everything seemed to be part of an agenda with him. Take the flat I was getting: it turned out that it was part of a failed development, and I was pretty sure my occupancy was to keep the place warm pro tem. But what I was really dreading was the quid pro quo, the 'by the way, whilst you're there could you...' I walked up Pall Mall in London, trying to
  23. Robert Hugill
    I was obviously on something when I wrote this! The crowd refers to the Cafe Momus scene in La Boheme!
  24. Robert Hugill
    Have to confess, it's not an instrument I have written for! Alas
  25. Robert Hugill
    Mother is called Margaret. Not sure when we find out.
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