Wynter Aodh

A Day in the Life of a writer and assistant Tom

5 May 2024

 Do you make plans, then feel as though they are futile. Do you start a task, expecting it to take no longer than an hour, and find yourself still working on it a week later. Is your task list longer at the end of the week than it was at the beginning of the week while the pile of work on your desk never diminishes. That’s my life. However, I’m sure one day, I will have everything under control. Oh, what dreams are made of.

On a positive note, I am managing to organise my writing. If all goes well, there are several short stories I have been working on, and plan to publish direct to my website over the year. The first one was published today, and you can read by clicking on the link below (add link)

I also managed to sort out several story plots I have started on and will collate them into a series of connected books linked to my store The Owl Toad Mole Curio Store, which will only be available through my newsletter, and a collection of short stories available to read on my website. More to come on this in the next couple of months.

What else did I manage to do this week, I watched one of my favourite films, The Ghost Train.

Ghost Train

A group of strangers are stranded at a Cornish rail station where they need to catch a connecting train to Truro. However, due to an incident which happened earlier in the day, the passengers miss their connecting train, and no more trains are expected until the next morning.

Stranded, at the station on a gloomy wet night, the station master relays a ghost story to the passengers about a previous station master, Ted Holmes, who is said to haunt the station after dying unexpectedly forty-three years ago, and a ghost train can be seen to go one way, but never returns.

During the night there is plenty of mishap, and chaos created by the popular comedian of the time, Arther Askey, and his partner, Richard ‘Stinker’ Murdoch, who provides lines like – ‘I’ve just turned the tea urn’ using the aid of visual object, a tea- urn, meaning I’ve just turned the tea on – Is this the line that inspired Eric Morecombe to write the sketch where he says to Ernie Wise, - Tea Ern – again another play on words tea urn.

As the night passes, they are visited by a ghost and some locals, who add drama to the film. There is suspense as they come across some unsavoury people. We are treated to a variety of characters. There is the newlyweds, who panic because they are not home by 10.00 pm, and wonder off, only to return when they come across ‘a ghost’. You have the doctor, who drinks. The spinster who is of the temperance movement, never drank in her life, and gets drunk. There is the sportsman, and his cousin. But are these people who they appear to be.

The film is set around the British Nazi Sympathy Movement and spies, and quite entertaining. 

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