Ms Robin Hood

 

 I want to write a bit of the kind of nonsense I’d like to write. What type of piece it is I don’t know but here is a sample – It’s about Maid Marion and Marion is her family name so she is really the maid Marion, Sybil Marion.

- I got so annoyed at the sheriff chap from Nottingham always wanting to take me for a drink that I invented this outlaw called Robin Hood to give him something else to think about. I’d thought of all kinds of names but settled on Robin, it could be feminine after all. Anyway, somehow word got around and these chaps started coming, John, who is tall and dark and handsome and so strong. I love it when he takes me in his arms and carries me across a stream but I can’t let him see I’m enjoying it, or he’ll get too familiar. Then there’s the Friar who brings lovely liqueurs they make in the monastery but I have to be careful with those because I start to giggle after two or three. After the name, there was the costume to design and I’ve never been too keen on green but the boys, I hate calling them Merry Men because it makes them sound a bunch of drunks, said it was the best colour for hiding in the wood and I must say it grows on one. They wanted a kind of cap for their heads but I insisted on a nice hat with a feather and I think the one I designed is rather swish and, now, the boys all agree and want to have one for their wives but I’ve refused – One doesn’t want to go outlawing and find some wench with the same hat, does one?

I must say the whole thing has been rather fun but King Richard has come back and the boys are going back to their wives and I’ll have to kill this Robin business off. I just want to think of something dramatic, like firing an arrow and burying a body of some kind where it falls.

Trouble is, I’ve had so much fun in the woods, I must think of something else.

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