Wilbur

Wilbur by Georgiana Fasslebinder
Wilbur by Georgiana Fasslebinder

Wilbur

The Third in the series “Ghosts of Music”

Wilbur was an unattractive man. He lived a lonely existence above the old book, music and print shop which he kept in Davies Mews. They say that all day he drank rum, disguised as coffee from a pot, and ate leeks, artichokes and lime jelly.

The wonderful things he bought and sold fascinated him, and left him with little desire for anything else in life…until one day an unusual manuscript came his way. The score was not that unusual in itself – what caught his interest was an old ink inscription down one side. It read – “Matilda Nectarines” Nth Rona Isle.

Being a keen amateur geographer he quickly found an atlas and located this remote place. This did not, however, satisfy his wild curiosity and he started to research everything he could about Nth Rona and nectarines. Who was Matilda?
Why “Matilda Nectarines” ?

He closed up his shop and journeyed to the very north of Scotland. About a year later a fire raged through his shop and all the valuable stock burnt to a cinder.

Today, if you smell smoke and hear footsteps behind you as you walk past Davies Mews it could be the Ghost of Wilbur, the bookseller who never recovered from falling in love with the piano playing he heard in a remote cottage on the Isle of Nth Rona.

Yet another attempt at Very Fine Old Fashioned Collage with respect to our friends articulation

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More about Matilda and Nth Rona Island

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  • Anne van Alkemade

    Anne van AlkemadeWordsmith, 3 months ago

    Ah, it is all coming together. Wonderful narratives, wonderful! These ghosts all have a shared connection!!!!

  • Roy barry

    Roy barry, 3 months ago

    I see the connection too!!

    Georgiana, such a cool series.

  • Zolton

    Zolton, 3 months ago

    This is cool. I like the bookshelves. I thought I saw gelatin! Ha.

  • Georgiana Fasslebinder

    Georgiana Fass... in reply to Anne van Alkemade’s comment, 3 months ago

    guess it will become more and more complex as the series progresses. glad you are enjoying them (I sure am even if the kitchen is covered in cut up magazines)

  • Georgiana Fasslebinder

    Georgiana Fass... in reply to Roy barry’s comment, 3 months ago

    yep lots of fun. I better put a link in to Matilda though for those who aren’t as clever as you and Anne

  • Georgiana Fasslebinder

    Georgiana Fass... in reply to Zolton’s comment, 3 months ago

    Yes Wilbur made his own gelatin, carefully boiling the calves feet for days on end refining and clarifying until finally he could add the lime juice and zest which made up his favorite pudding. (Wilbur, you see, had an unpleasant allergy to pomegranate juice and therefore found it best to use limes for vitamin C in his diet)

  • LetThemEatArt

    LetThemEatArt, 3 months ago

    This is a wonderful collage, it works really well. Congratulations. I really must do some of these, but my scissors have broken and I am without glue.

  • Georgiana Fasslebinder

    Georgiana Fass... in reply to LetThemEatArt’s comment, 3 months ago

    I’ll post you some

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