Lipton returns

I don’t know how many people read the two books that I posted on my blog a few years ago. I kept the ending of the second one to myself with a view to having it published. In a sense you have to read the first one to understand the second though it stands up on its own. It requires serious rewriting and editing and is very much a first draft but I have never read anything like it. My character is Skree but also Peter. Lipton is the costar and is based on a freind. His name came when the predictive texting wanted to put Lipton instead of his real nickname despite me spelling it correctly. I also didn’t want him to know that I’d used his character in a story. Maybe I’ll tell him one day. A lot of the scenes were real and actually happened but we aren’t really shamen or archangels. We did sneak past security and climb the last gas silo frame in Bath. We did drive up to Leeds and climb moortown water tower. We did psychedelics on cley hill and watched a partial eclipse. We did a lot of things that are in the first book but there’s a layer of fantasy on top. We never met up with Jesse Presley in the underground tunnels we explored and there was no subterranean rock and roll empire of which he was king.

Anyway last week the character I based Lipton on who I hadn’t seen for years turned up and he stayed and we talked and drank. His son is in the village next to ours, less than two miles away. Lipton wants to be in his life and has pulled himself out of addiction and is doing all the right things to be a part of his life and watch him grow. This means he’ll be here a lot. It was me who got the daft ideas like breaking into sealed tunnel networks and climbing industrial buildings. But without him I don’t have the bravery. We egg each other on and he’s always up for an adventure, say a drive deep into wales to explore slate mine tunnels. He doesn’t get why I am drawn to doing these things but he always has the bottle. There’s so much work we need to do now he’s back. We did used to buy action man figures for our missions. Two were hung from the water tower and were still there last time I passed it. We also buried an action man each, two feet beneath the soil at the stone circle Michael Evis had built. It was our signature. On all serious adventures we would choose an action man each and hang them, bury them, burn them; use them up to mark our work in appropriate ways. The figures represent us and we sacrifice them to seal the hoodoo of our exploits. The last two were put to sea at a beach near us and we watched the small figures in the boat we had made for them slowly grow smaller until our eyes saw two dots before they disappeared completely. There are some great water towers ear here and we will be getting our action men ready for our mission. Because now he is back in my life our competitive nature will no doubt have us up to our ritual exploration again and testing each other as to how committed to ridiculous endeavours the other is. It’s something that we can’t not do. Lipton is now in his mid fifties and I am sixty so we won’t be able to do what we used to. We are older men now but both still have a yearning for ridiculous missions. Readers may have read the first chapters of book three that picks up in the aftermath of our destruction of Rupert Bunsens Noah project and the Witchfynder general is hunting us down. We are separated having been flung off in different directions. Both of us know that not everyone has survived. Lipton has so far left the mental hospital following his sectioning, Jesus has reanimated having been smashed in to many pieces. Of course he can’t be killed and has been reborn many times since his heyday covered in the New Testament gospels and is back living on traveller site in Somerset. I am not yet written about but spoiler alert I survived the carnage of the conger eel demon hybrids. Only one of the Clun Druids survived and there’s no sign of the coven of witches who summoned up the sea goddess who is the group mind of the conger demon hybrid shoal. My friend Jason Feddy has just had his book published and you can put in a preorder on Amazon now. So I think it’s time that I sorted out my book and get it out there. It’s a lot of work but there is nothing like it and I believe it would be a popular cult book. There’s so much to do. I’m already following the characters in the aftermath but I need to go through all of the first two books and tidy them up. Welcome back into our lives Lipton.

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