#PennedPossibilities - MC or SC POV: What was your favorite day or holiday when you were a child?
Alfie:
I loved those weeks in summer that we spent at Lymfort Hall.
The house is a bit dark inside and could do with a brightening up, that's true, but the gardens are splendid! Especially the walled gardens with the fruit trees (SO MANY gooseberries!)!
I loved roving over the estate with my siblings, even if the garden follies are far less adventurous than those at Endsleigh. ☺️
Alfie would like to return to Lymfort Hall, his father's main estate and the one his father utterly detests due to the bad memories he has of the place. Alfie, by contrast, is not haunted by a traumatic past connected to the house and sees the potential of the place.
#wordweavers May 1: Introduce your setting as if it’s a character in your story.
Imagine a small village - no, not even a village, a handful of houses clustered around a railway station, and a small hotel in the middle of the countryside. The station, the houses, the hotel are all brandnew, built just a couple of years back when the London-Southampton line was built.
At the moment, everything is covered with a thick layer of snow, and a deserted train stands at the station.
Today's #PennedPossibilities prompt and @pretensesoup 's answer to it made me think about whether Alfie should wear spectacles. His mother does, and moreover, eye problems are something that shows up in twins, doesn't it?
Alfie with fogged-up spectacles?
Also, I'm happy to report that I found out after which English country house I originally modelled Endsleigh Hall eleven years ago. Only the map of the grounds I drew up back then remains elusive...
For John and Alfie, it's obviously that they're gay. (Historical romance author here.)
For Alfie, it's also that he would have liked more time with his twin sister (they spent a lot of time apart in the past few years) and that he feels a bit lost without her.