Susie and Jeffrey - Update

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Ebooks 7, 8, and 9 are now in the same Public Folder on SkyDrive. And some info on 125 - 144.

Up there as well is ConvertToHTML, the Word macro I wrote (in a burst of enthusiasm after installing Office 2010 trial) to convert 125 - 144 to clean HTML for posting here. I was so taken with watching it do its stuff that it prompted me to find more use for it - hence the books. The macro handles all the formatting used in S&J, and then with one click Sigil converts the outputted htm file to an epub file.

The Dinky Doos Investigate is finished, but I've become even more of a serial tweaker and can't leave it alone. I've just completed yet another pass through chapters 125 - 144. One misplaced quotation mark and one surplus 'the' fixed. Also a few sentences added, when, if anything, I should be cutting out irrelevant stuff.

Actually Susie and Jeffrey is mainly irrelevant stuff, but I hope the mystery plot in their latest outing isn't swamped by the comedy interludes. Such as a first chapter spent not explaining to Jeffrey's mum what they've been up to so far, before the new adventure gets underway. And the overlong scene when they meet up with ace reporter Barry Horrocks again. His reminiscences will mean nothing to folk who don't read the Blackpool Gazette, and in particular the Memory Lane articles.

There's a video from the driver's seat of one of the new trams (two of which are destroyed in the Dinky Doos) as it goes along The Golden Mile at -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-17585627

- showing the sea front and the Tower where the climax of Uneasy Money took place.

The main action of 125 - 144 is set up the line, and I'll be posting it soon. I've read through the whole thing dozens of times, and even though I know what's coming it still makes me laugh. Perhaps that's the problem - I'm writing it too much for myself. But there's nothing I can do about it - Susie and Jeffrey are my one obsession.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=44d73499b73d4651&id=44D73499B...

Also available at -

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bxm466vRrqy8bENybUxx...

Comments

Not just your obsession

S & J's brand of childish maturity, liberally sprinkled with a substantial dose of good 'ole English humour, is always worth a titter.

S.

Titter ye not.

This is to be taken seriously lest Donald McGill turns in his grave and there's an outbreak of seaside humour. Jamie and Charlottel Dickles are doing their best to keep up the tradition of the British (English, really) seaside ... ooer missus :)

I spent more time than I care to remember perusing the postcard stands as a child in post-war Skegness so I know of what I speak.

Robi