The Chronicles of Triple P: Noughth week Part 1

My staircase in the second year.  My room was in the roof, just to the left of the external stairwell in this picture.

I have just posted the latest episode of the Chronicles of Triple P which looks at Noughth Week (the week before term starts) at the beginning of my second year at University.  This is the longest Chronicle so far but was originally going to be much longer, as I was going to cover the whole week in one post (and there are artistic reasons that would have justified this).  However, my friend said it was just too long so I have split it into two or possibly even three posts. 

These posts draw on the most contemporaneous accounts I have of my time so far as I have both my own journals and those of the other person involved to draw on. Some of what I wrote was actually written on the same day as the action. There is, perhaps, too much material, hence the inordinate length.

The next episode will appear rather more quickly than this one followed the last.

A new chapter of The Lust World: Chapter 31

I have spent rather a lot of time abroad the last few months and have been unable to update my blogs due to issues with logging in remotely.  Over the next week or so I will be doing some more posts and the first of these is Chapter 31 of The Lust World, which continues Edmund Molloy's adventures down in Hoxton Hall. I was down in the Meon Valley last week and drove past an imposing entrance which looked like it might be, and was certainly in the right place for, that of the fictional Hoxton Hall.

This chapter is a fairly recent addition and, I am afraid, does not move the story along very much but was written at the request of my friend B who wanted to see some more of the redoubtable Lady Hoxton.  In the next chapter, which is well on the way, the other guests start to arrive for Hoxton's birthday entertainment.

I have also been working on the next Chronicle of Triple P, which is by far the longest I have done for reasons I will explain when I complete it, hopefully, next week.

The Chronicles of Triple P: The Summer of our Discontent 2

The Radcliffe Camera from Catte Street in 1980

I have just posted the next Chronicle which covers my summer vacation between the first and second years at university. You can read it here.

Mentioned in it are a couple of books about Japanese prints which I still have.  This is the cover of the exhibition catalogue concerned.  I will post some of the pictures mentioned in the piece in due course. Also mentioned, again, is a picture my Uncle L had in his holiday house in Hampshire.  I have managed to track it down and you can see it here.  It is, perhaps, a surprising picture for a middle aged couple to have in their living room!

A new chapter of The Lust World

Following on from yesterday's new episode of the Chronicles of Triple P I have posted a new Chapter of The Lust World here.

The Chronicles of Triple P: The Day after the Ball

I have posted another new episode of The Chronicles of Triple P here.  This is the longest Chronicle by far, some 25% longer than the next longest, but only covers one day.  This is because I has a lot of  of contemporaneous material to draw on.  This included a five page entry in my journal, a draft letter I wrote to A about it but, wisely, never sent, a letter back from a friend at Cambridge responding to a letter from me where we discussed girls in some biological detail (he had just done It for the first time),  a half completed short story I wrote that summer based almost entirely on that day and a long letter H wrote to K, which she showed me recently.  K told me that she was enjoying my reminiscences but not necessarily all the stuff about 'fluids'. A typical K comment!

The rather unexciting photograph at the top of this chapter (and this post) was the view from the fire door to the corridor my room was on in the first year down the staircase.  Most of the pictures I use I took at the time but at this point I had yet to get a proper SLR camera and, sadly, never took a picture of my rooms in the first year.  I took this one last summer, when back for my College gaudy but it hasn't changed at all apart from the domed light, which I think is new.  Above is the opposite view looking up to the door to the corridor where my room was.

This was the paved area outside the entrance to my staircase, which was formed from a group of eighteenth century houses on the High Street.  It was at the furthest corner of college from the entrance and many people at College never ventured there.  It was a rather dirty white when I was there not this rather tasteful green colour.  Up on the first floor, in the centre of the picture, is the room K and I had for the College gaudy.

In this view, looking down from the open window above the door in the picture immediately above, is the paved area between my staircase and the modern one of C and K on the left.  The arch on the right takes you past the organ scholar's room, through to the quad, which you crossed to get to the law library, the nice bathroom and H's room

Chapter 27 of The Lust World and the return of Chapter Notes.

I have just posted the next chapter of The Lust World, Chapter 27, here.  The following Chapter is almost ready as well but I will probably wait to put that up after Christmas.  In the meantime, I need to finish the next Chapter of The Chronicles of Triple P. 

I have also started up my new The Lust World Chapter Notes blog, which includes some of my research for the story.  I have to repopulate it but have made a start here.

A new chapter of The Lust World

I have just posted another new Chapter of The Lust World here.  This episode features a sort of raffle using an Ottoman  helmet as a hat.  The current chapters were written a year or so ago but I am rewriting them to match subsequent developments in the story and due to requests from some of my particular friends.  Yes, B, there will be a bound and beaten man!

I was hoping to have at least six  months without any travel but it looks like I will be going to Dallas in February.  Better than El Salvador, anyway!