Round up of earlier writings

[caddyman]

Right; boredom wins out!

Primarily for the edification of snorkelmaiden and telemeister (who, I think, has already read the earlier stuff).

There is actually very little Dimpler Towers stuff available – I have a little more that was written in the first person (parts 1-3) and which appeared on a blog I used to keep but which is now long since deleted. That blog was actually called Chad Dimpler: Election Analyst and was a place I tried for about 18 months or so to comment upon things happening in the news locally and globally. The joke goes back to the ‘dimpled chads’ in the US Presidential election of what, November 2000.

Anyway, a lot of that was written under the pseudonym and in time started collecting a supporting cast. I don’t propose to repost any of that because it weaves then current events with the antics of Chad Dimpler and his staff etc. I believe that mollpeartree may have seen some of it in its original setting by sheer chance.

I may re-edit and re-write some of it at some point, but Dimpler Towers has moved on in my mind at least. Chauncy Newage was far more the odd ball vicar in those days, and some of his parishioners thought he might be a closet pagan.

These days he is far more mainstream and his story will build (if build is the word) around a misunderstanding about precisely how High or Low Church he is, together with the vexed question of the fate of (the immobile) Great Uncle Archie’s bought and paid for pew, and the horror of the pink surplice.

Part 4 was never finished – I may return to it one day or it may be revisited as a later part, parts 5, 6, 7 and 7a are linked below. You have seen the latter two today and a couple of weeks ago.

http://community.livejournal.com/just_writing/428.html

http://community.livejournal.com/just_writing/746.html

http://community.livejournal.com/just_writing/48481.html

http://community.livejournal.com/just_writing/48681.html

Comments

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Bry. Only one of these was new to me. Why do I get the impression that you have two or three others sitting in the Just Writing community?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well there's other, non-Dimpler Towers stuff over there that tries to humorous. Mort and his fencing, for instance.

You can always mooch through the community - it may be there's one there I've forgotten.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking for a while of scribbling down something light and meandering about a peer who has recently inherited the vast family fortune and has to come to America to evade his grasping, jealous cousins, uncles, aunts, etc, and chronicling his assimilation (or its lack) into life among the friendly but bewildering natives and their cheerily vulgar culture.

No time like the present, I suppose.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Can't hurt to try.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I like these very much. Your style reminds me of Mervyn Peake, but this is funnier and less creepy than Gormenghast.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

As long as they're not too like Peake. I could never get on with Gormenghast and when I was told that he had gone mad by the time he'd written the last book, I was surprised because I assumed he was mad from the start!

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

Ooh I love Gormenghast- but I think that's more to do with the style than the content as such. I realised a while ago that for me the pleasure of reading comes from the words, not the story that they are telling.

[mezzogiornouno.livejournal.com]

I too remember Chad Dimpler in his original setting, and was an avid reader and fan. If you brought out a range of dolls you could have called one of them Pregnant Chad