Pico day 22

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

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May the magic be with us all!

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[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Two chapters of edits completed and typed up. Rupert finally learns something about his modern-day cousins:

"Aunt Julia's brother was a pilot?" Rupert couldn't remember ever hearing that she'd had a brother, much less what had happened to him. Most of Papa's stories about her dealt with their adventures on the estate and the times they'd spent together in London after he had left the army and she'd stayed with him in spite of being married to Hugh.

"He was shot down in 1942, not long after he'd married a girl from quite the wrong sort of background – at least as far as George was concerned – and before he'd done anything about making a new will to provide for Julia." Grandmama brightened. "I hear she and her parents did a marvellous job of keeping his estate going – they'd been tenant farmers for several generations – and the current Earl Fitz-Osbert breeds beautiful Fell ponies as well. He's another one that married a girl from one of the tenant farms, of course."

"Are there any Fitz-Osbert cousins of my generation?" He could write to them – find out if one of them wanted a penfriend if nothing else. Just because previous generations of Peverils and Fitz-Osberts had fallen out, there was no reason for him not to bridge the rift.

"I think there's a boy and a girl. You should look them up in Debrett."

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Just because previous generations of Peverils and Fitz-Osberts had fallen out, there was no reason for him not to bridge the rift.

Smart boy!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

He is indeed.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Papa must have been doing some creative editing with the stories over the years!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Only a little: he didn't really know any of Julia's immediate family either, and she fell out with her inlaws on that side after her brother died.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Good work slogging through the edits! I like the rambling feel of this conversation - the way that you're getting across a lot of information very subtly.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the encouragement.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Very good progress - congrats for finishing edits on two chapters!

Exciting / intriguing leads for Rupert! Thank you, Grandmama:)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Rupert has lots of leads to follow indeed.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

You are making excellent progress on the editing -- kudos! I like the way Rupert is finding out his father is an unreliable narrator.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Edward does have a habit of only talking about things that interest him. Though to be fair, I didn't know about some of my cousins until I was 16, due to a family rift.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I think that sort of situation might be quite common. I didn't know my paternal grandfather's name until a year or so before my father's death -- he never talked about his family at all.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Dad didn't even know about his half brother and sister until they cycled over to visit one day.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

That must have been a terrible shock.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Probably confusing more than anything from what he's told me.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's a nice little bit of family history (speaks someone who watches Who Do You Think You Are for people I have never even heard of!) and it's lovely that he wants to reach out.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. One day I need to write the WWII Fitz-Osbert stories properly.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Very sensible of Rupert! Hopefully they will be interested in hearing from him!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

They certainly ought to be.