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I've made a note - this weekend will hopefully be kind to me and allow me to catch up!

My type of humour!

A novel might be a stretch, novella maybe? Not sure where to start though:

Option (1): Showing their happiness/perfect marriage, then the suspicion, hiring a PI or doing it herself, getting confirmation, working through/planning what to do - you can also show the life of the cheating wife. And then finish with this as the final scene.

Option (2): Or Starting with this as the first scene and her poisoning her husband and he his wife, how they deal/cope with it, and if you're looking for a Romance, granted it will be somewhat dark happy ever after, how the killer wife and pharmacist fall in love and live happily ever after.

Are you seriously considering doing this Janet?

a) Observe the 5-second rule of dropped food? Isaac, because his family are dirt poor and have no food to waste (like 99% of the border population to be honest) and less serious, George (the horse  specialist and joker - more than everyone else that is, all of them are but not this much) just to gross everyone out

b) drink more than they should? Anthony Aiden - this one's easy, he already drink more than he should! And sleeping around too!

c) wind surf? Catherine - especially if anyone else told her not to!

d) trip? The villain - and at the worst time possible (that chapter is almost ready to go)

e) Disassemble something (either mechanical or magical) Black John - he's the hands on guy around for sure

f) Want to buy a house (as opposed to a flat / renting) Everyone that doesn't, not that they can afford it and Black John will have to find a bigger place to stay soon though and he'd be anle to afford it

You have a hat, I have an ass. But in all seriousness, the last two numbers, depending if you want to keep this 100% believable or on the edge of believable, will be determined by the human body is my understanding. What I'm not sure about is: have you considered variability? And is there even variability between humans - for example, would a healthy, fit 20yo be able to walk out while a 50yo smoker should've worn a red shirt that day?

Not sure I'm helping, but basically if you want A to walk out of there, the latter two numbers are not that flexible based on what Amy is saying.

Interesting given that Peter has said gaining the title is a side-benefit, i.e. it's not his aim/end-goal - he simply sees Matthew unfit and anyone but Matthew will do pretty much. Peter has also never thought or mentioned that he thinks he is better than Matthew at all. And to some extent he has forgotten in the whole process he's going to have to fill those shoes. But adding that Peter thinks he will be better than Matthew won't hurt either.

Not sure if you can remember, but Matthew is actually struggling with this exact same problem, just before Geordie's funeral in the family's burial vault there was a scene where he was questioning whether he deserves the title and are doing his parents/brother proud. It's been a while since I wrote the scene where he and Catherine were talking about growing up - but I'm pretty sure that Catherine has noticed the growth in Matthew over the years she didn't see him. Matthew still needs convincing though that he is worthy (and I might need to do something that helps him along the way, because Catherine herself won't be able to convince him probably) whereas Peter is a lost case still stuck in the past.

You make interesting suggestions I haven't considered. I'm against a tight deadline to get Matthew and Catherine married before everyone else knows she's pregnant which complicates things but I'll definitely keep it mind. Not sure, but having animals feed of Peter's corpse might also get really dark for Romance!

Once Peter is taken care of, this will be the next play and then the dreaded 'standard issue' Romance trope where the MC's go their separate way before they end up together for ever after. And then it's on to the next book finding Black John a wife and giving the scullery maid a central role for a change instead of just being a background character to make readers hate a noble lord.

Second 4th of July. So far a few odd instances where people are just shooting fireworks for the hell of it, but last year was more look and see. I'm not sure we'll be going to any celebrations this year, but it would be a good experience. I'm 5 miles south of the Canadian border, so still on US soil! No Canada.

Can't agree more!

Part of my relocation that an accountant will do it and the company will pay the cost. Next one is on us if we can't figure it out on our own.

These are done, FBAR forms have been submitted. Thank you for all your advice and checking my back! I owe you one gallon of your favourite poison!

As for my writing, work isn't helping. I just need to self-check my chapter and incorporate the changes and then I can post it, but I'm dog tired. Hoping tomorrow I'll get to it!

I can give you one Aussie perspective, but I haven't really been around to get other personal ones, just what I saw in Aus news outlets. It was practically non-existent in the US news media because Clinton or Trump wasn't involved! And no one at work had any opinions - misses my old colleagues and friends a bit - so at this point it's just what mr C and I are thinking (okay, so make that 2 Aussies!).

You guys have re-established my faith in the American people though! *fist bump* Thanks for asking!

I would've voted "leave". All the EU did was to introduce another level of governance with positions filled by leeches that someone had to pay from money they don't have. The only real difference the EU made was to open the borders between the EU members despite the varying levels of (in)competence of some of the members to actually control borders and therefore they adjusted the border control of the whole block to the lowest common dominator. And as we all know, open borders is a great idea! [I'm being sarcastic here - I actually support legal immigration which should include humanitarian visas, but not a free for all.]

After the EU did that (open the borders) and got all the trade agreements in place (which isn't even worth the paper it was written on - it replaced in kind agreements for most but I can stand corrected on this one - this is all my opinion), they had nothing to do really. So instead of downsizing, they did what any bureaucrat worth his mettle would do: kept themselves busy by interfering with things where they shouldn't and weren't ask/supposed to (and redistributed even more money that no one had from countries on the brink of collapse to already collapsed countries), and just managed to piss people off in general. So for the last how many years they excelled at that thing bureaucrats do best: nothing worthy or what they were supposed to be doing while being paid to do so and losing touch with the people.

So for a few countries this was just bloody awesome. For the rest, meh, not so much except unwanted interference. I'm not surprised the Brits are first to go - there are a lot of theories flying about in the US media at the moment, which is all good, but to me personally the only one that I think matters is national identity. The Brits have one hell of an identity - mmm, and they kept the pound around instead of using Euros ... That is of course ignoring the outpour of money and the influx of immigrants.

Yep, no one saw this coming. \some more sarc - only if you had your head in the sand or worked for the EU you didn't see this coming.

I think this is the start of the end of the EU. The EU never really had a function to be honest. And despite the market reaction, this is nothing really. These countries existed before the EU, they'll do after the EU too. Worst case, people have to apply for visas to work/live in GB again. *gasps* That's basically the biggest issue. Oh, and they have to find a new PM. If they need advice, Australia can help them real quick with how you get rid of PMs overnight. Also not anything too concerning. (You'll note that I couldn't give two shits where the EU administrators and council members find a new job - then again, their buddies will make sure they're taken good care of).

IMO, Germany will also leave the EU, soon after the UK, although probably not the first.

So in short, I think the British royal family/the queen has more purpose than the EU.

Sometimes the change is so big though that it's just better to start over. Yep, that's me. But so we learn and hopefully don't repeat the same mistakes.