Snot & Grizzle.

Sundays in the summer months, are spent with 10 year old Charley, Mummy, Daddy and 5 year old twin boys walking from Marlow to High Wycombe, where Nanny & Grandad live, through the country lanes. Everybody, except Daddy. Hates it. The walk takes 3 hours there & 3 hours back.

Daddy
Right everyone go to the loo, get your coats we are off.

Mummy
(Sighs) Cant we take the car today.

Daddy
Look. Exercise is good. You could do with a bit more. Lardy.

Charley
(Humpy, stamping her left foot over & over)) I don’t want to go.

Twin Boys
(Grizzling, snot hanging out of their noses and into their mouths) Don’t like it.

Daddy
Come on. Move it. NOW!!!!

Cut to half way on the walk. The twins are practically crawling they are so tired. Charley is walking in slow motion , on purpose. Mummy is getting told off, by Daddy, for something she didn’t do, 2 years ago.

Twins
(Still snotty & crying) I want a carry.

Charley
I want to die.

Cut to Nanny & Grandad’s house.
Daddy strolls in. Mummy limps in, as her bad knee is playing up. The twins collapse just as they get through the door & Charley throws herself on the couch & kisses the cushions.

Nanny
Cup of tea everyone. (Shouts) BILL…Biiiiiiiiiiiiil. Make everyone a cup of tea.

Twins
(Gasping, holding their chubby little hands out) Water.

Nanny
I offered TEA!! Those that ask don’t get.

Daddy
We are only stopping 10 minutes. We have to get back before it gets dark.

All the children start to wail.
Please don’t make us walk back. Pleeeeeeeeease Daddy.

Nanny
You children can all stay the night here & daddy can pick you up in the car tomorrow before school. I think I have a few faggots in the freezer & some brussel sprouts.
I wont have any noise though. My snooker is on.

All the children hold their breath. They start to shake with fear. The room falls silent. The children start to turn blue.

Mummy
If you are too tired to walk back………..

The children summon all their strength. The twins stagger up and start jumping up and down. Charley hauls her aching body out of the comfy chair & skips for England.

Hehe I can just imagine it now-I really like this one, Charley! True story?

Ever thought about arranging all these shorts into a longer story adding some exaggerations and writing a novel based on a wee girl called Charley?

I want to write a novel, but my mind is empty for ideas.

Not looking for a fight with Lee, but I'm a firm believer in brevity and I think you really are honing your writing skills beautifully, Charley.

I just think "Charley the character" is developing enough to carry a much more complex story.

I also think you could write one of those loosely based biography things with this character and with your humour develop a kind of Ronald Dahl style of book.

Awwwwwwww Fankoo guys.

I can see Leevil's point here. Charley, you have made such huge strides with your writing that you should be considering ideas like short stories, as your character develops.

I'll be buying some 'I Heart Charley Rance' souvenir underpants now because of the warmth you are bringing to your sketches and how I really feel I can see them, smell them etc. Quality!

I'm at a bit of a loss for words as everyone else has already said 'em! Its great stuff I think ... somehow needs to be gathered up and edited into a 'collection' and put out into the world as a whole. Not sure how best to do but has enormous potential.