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Re: To BL or not to BL

Monkey said

<< just trying to say that maybe we don't like
  these 'avant gard' things 'cos we don't understand them and don't want to
for
 that matter! >>

When ah got home from t'pit t'other neet, ah went straight upstairs to change
out of me work boots into me clogs and cloth cap so that I could take yon
whippet out onto Ilkley Moor. Ah thought to mesen, ah can't wait for t'
weekend. Brighouse are on at t' Town Hall (young lad called Irwin on sop for
'em). Ah'm going with Ernie Arkwright from our band. Worst 3rd cornet player
in the North of England but he's a grand lad and 'e collects the subs so we
can't sack him. We're awnly going for the 2nd half 'cos they're playing some
of that new music in t' 1st half which we don't like much. Give me a good
March or 'Florrie Fords Favourites' anyday. Bit funny at times tho' our
Ernie, he reckons we'll go to war again. They said never again after the last
'un. I believe Mr Chamberlain when he says we won't.
Then all of a sudden ah came over all funny, lahk. T' whippet turned into a
doberman, me clogs turned into Nike Trainers, me cloth cap into a baseball
cap and the cotton mill that ah can see from me bedroom window turned into an
Arts and Crafts Centre and Small Business Workshop. But strangest of all, on
the bedside table where ah keep me bible and copy of t' bandsman, this white
box appeared. It looked a bit like one of them televisions like Albie
Postlethwaite, off our shift, was talking abaht. And then a typewriter bit
appeared in front and some other funny bits.
Then the television bit sparked into life. On it were a sort of letter from a
chap in Australia calling himself Monkey. Sounds like 'e used to live over
'ere. 'As 'e done bad and been sent over theer or summat? Ah read what 'e 'ad
to say and thought to mesen:
"Ah may just have travelled forward 80 odd years in time, fer reasons that ah
can't understand, but ah've obviously found a kindred spirit in this Monkey
chap. Now then, 'ow do I go about sending a letter back to 'im on this here
box?"

Big Chap
Bedrock Brass
Civil Servant, resident in the Midlands with fairly broad musical tastes
Making no attempt to be historically, linguistically or phonetically correct
but hoping that when Monkey wrote the original message he had his tongue
firmly in ghis cheek and it wasn't intended as an entirely serious
contribution


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