"Esme and Enid were twins, not identical but alike in some of their ways but they did argue a lot. They had gone down to the bottom of the garden, sitting by the rose arch whilst it was not in bloom. Dad did not like them down there when he had worked so hard on his garden so this was an ideal time for visiting.
As usual Esme was going on and on about her boyfriend and what they had planned, where they were going to go and all the things they were going to do. They had just been to a Festival, Glastonbury in fact, and she had not stopped going on about it for days.
Mum and dad had banned the conversation at meal times as it revolved around Glastonbury full stop and by now Enid had had enough when the two of them went to bed in an evening. In fact she had asked mum if she could have the spare room which mum used for her crafting just so she could get away from Esme for a while. She had told her she would sleep anywhere, mum did not need to move her sewing machine or anything, as long as she had a bed that would suffice. All she wanted was a good night's sleep. On her own.
Esme was still raving about seeing Diana Ross "I know she is old but oh my goodness, she is a legend" she said, "and she can still belt out the best of Motown." "I bet mum and dad would have loved it, she was a big star in their day."
"Yes", replied Enid, "I bet they would have loved the hard ground and the sleeping bags, the bugs, and the toilets you all had to share too. You wouldn't get me going to something like that, I like my home comforts."
"Sometimes you can be a real stick in the mud" said Esme. "You never do anything except read books, sit in front of the television and mess about on the internet. No wonder you don't have many friends. You are going to turn into a real old spinster before your time. I sometimes wonder if we really are twins?"
"Oh just shut up" shouted Enid, "do you know how to shut up? I do wonder at times. We are all sick of hearing about you and Glastonbury."
"Yes, I know how to shut up. I just don't know when" replied Esme, "I only wanted to share all the good times I had. Sorry, if it annoys you, you should have said earlier."
Enid felt a bit sorry for being harsh to her twin, she had thought with the ban at meal times on talk of the Festival that Esme would have taken the hint. Perhaps she was being a bit harsh, so she smiled and said "It doesn't matter that much, but can we please limit it and not talk about it when we go to bed, please, pretty please." And with that she got down and gave her sister a big hug and they laughed and began talking about fairies at the bottom of the garden instead."
I almost forgot the challenge at Art Journal Journey has changed and then I realised it changed a few days ago so I quickly went to look at the new challenge - Arches and/or Windows. Today my story contains an arch. Was I a better artist I would haven twisted some roses around it but instead I left it at the bottom of the garden without a single flower. My background was with a 'new to me' stencil which I used with three different greens from the Distress Ink range. Then, using a ruler and my Distress Tool, I continued with a fine green line around the edges of the page. All figures are byj Dyan at Dylusions as per the challenge I do with Wendy who again chose the quote.
Must admit I did not find this story easy to write, it didn't tumble out like the stories usually do and the first one suffered a "cut". Just hope I have better luck with next weeks.
