Dear Teri,
Thanks for your note, I'm always happy to hear fron you. Now then, now then, Teri, don't get so upset. Does it really matter of you don't tell a story in a linear fashion, but cut between different periods as well as people and locations? And okey dokey, I know you're now telling the same story on two different platforms and that might mean some readers miss a post or other readers miss a different post, but in five hundred years time will it matter? Not on your Nellie! It won't matter in five years time, five weeks, or five days or even five minutes! The whole thing about life is we don't get to know it all. I know you don't like to miss an episode of Doctor Who or Eastenders and if you miss the first episode of a new serial you then avoid the rest, but Teri, that's because when you saw Play It Again, Sam you realised that you weren't the only person who can't miss the opening titles or the closing credits on the principle that you start a book on page 1 and read every page to the end but not everybody does that, some don't mind missing a quarter of an hour or an entire episode, and now that every show seems to begin with “Previously on The News . . . . .” and “Previously on The Weather Forecast . . . . .” it really doesn't matter what you missed, it'll carch up with you.
     What's that? You just can't help worrying?
     I know, nut that's just because you are a perfectionist and you worry about missing a typo somewhere or Posting a piece that has a letter missing somewhere so that instead of 'there wasn't any bread to be had,' we find 'there wasn't any read to be had,' and readers will either read it as you meant it to be, their mind will insert the correct letter, or they'll just think, oh? That's odd, and carry on. They aren't gonna write and complain, they aren't all Disgusted, Tonbridge Wells!
     But that's not why I'm writing, Teri, it's because I'm coming up your way at the weekend and I wondered if you and Martin would mind if I pop in to the cottage – it's a bit grander than mine up in Glen Coe – and maybe stay the night before I continue to Edinburgh?
     Now then, don't get all in a tizz, I just take folks as I find them, so don't get anything special in – I like a bit of haggis, turnip and spuds, or neeps and tatties as you Highland Lassies probably say, but just a bit of toast and a cuppa will do me, you know I'm just a Yorkshire Lad.
     So either Friday or Saturday, I'm not sure of the time, but I'll see you then unless you're not there. Tarrarra Noo!
 Jimmy
PS - we'll have a chat bout you and your cousin coming on JFI