As promised, the final chapter of Biggles Married II has been posted!
Read it here. (Note: This chapter is not for the faint of heart. You have been warned.)
Feel free to leave suggestions for Biggles Married III in the comments section.
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Biggles turns out to have been under the influence of some advanced hallucinogenic drug put in his cigarettes before he got married, and in his tea afterwards.
ReplyDeleteIt was a plot devised to stop him being so efficient at solving cases. Only Algy can find the antidote.
Needless to say, Jane was one of the conspirators.
Of course! I think you've cracked it S.A.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are paying attention Sopwith and taking notes - S.A.'s theory is the only logical solution to all this madness as far as I can see....
I am taking notes :)
ReplyDeletePurely out of interest, do you all hate Jane because she's Jane, or because she's Biggles' wife?
And how would you feel about the possibility of little Jameses and Janes?
YUK!!! (Does that answer your second question?)
ReplyDeleteAs for why Jane is not liked speaking personally, here is my shortlist (the long-list probably wouldn't fit on the page...)
1. She is quite wrong for Biggles
2. She nags Biggles in front of his friends
3.She has broken up the beautiful friendship between Biggles and Algy
4. She is conniving and keeps secrets from Biggles (Algy,Biggles and the others never kept secrets from each other)
5. She wears inappropriate clothing for flying
6. She rather enjoys EVS flirting with her
7.I am convinced she has an evil hidden agenda of her own which will prove to be Biggles' downfall
8. She loves publicity (Biggles hates it ...)
I could go on but I think I'll have to go and have a little lie down now all that thinking about the loathed Jane has left me feeling a little faint....
My first thought was that if EVS came and stole her that would solve the problem. But I think it would only create further issues, because there would be no stopping Biggles flying to the ends of the earth to find her.....silly Biggles! Algy wouldn't do anything half so stupid.
ReplyDeleteIn other words she is the absolute opposite of Biggles, which should make her perfect for him!
ReplyDeleteYou're right; if anyone stole Jane Biggles would go to the ends of the earth to get her back. He's already kicked his friends out. There's nothing he won't do for her.
ReplyDeleteBut he's not Biggles any more. He'd do anything for her which means becoming a shadow of his former self.There's no drive left.He's done all the compromising so far and Jane hasn't. Ok, turning his friends out of the flat on marriage is understandable but the way he's done it!! but if anyone stole Jane of course he'd go to the ends of the earth for her. Even if (with a bit of luck) they separate he would still feel an obligation to her and we would expect nothing less of Biggles (at least, the Biggles we used to know!)
ReplyDeleteIt's all right. Algy will always remain Algy, no matter what happens to Biggles.
ReplyDeleteDoes that make you feel better? :P
Algy, after nearly losing his life, has lost his home and his best friend. So what's happening to him right now? Did he go to a hotel for the night, or a bar? Walk the streets? Although come to think of it there wouldn't be a lack of admiring females willing to take him in.
ReplyDeleteI would take him in!
ReplyDeleteI think he's probably walking the streets feeling like someone has just ripped his heart out and wishing he hadn't survived the green smoke after all.
He would definitely have had enough money for a hotel, but considering the mood he's in, he'd probably go and drown his sorrows with something quite strong.
Sobbing emoticon here! You can save him, Soppy, but at present I hope he stumbles into Bertie and Ginger, He shouldn't be alone at a time like this.
ReplyDeleteI'm writing Biggles Married III at the moment, and it's just SAD :(
ReplyDeleteSad for Jane, I hope, although, quite frankly, I don't hold out much hope the way things have been going. I found one of your old posts on the Algy blog in which you said you hadn't realised how bad Jane was.You also threatened to kill any fanfic writer who would hurt Algy (but knowing you, it's ok for you to do so). But I guess you can stand the heat since you won't stay out of the kitchen. ;)
ReplyDeleteTurning his friends out of their HOME is NOT understandable.
ReplyDeleteIf Biggles wanted a little love nest with Jane (yuk!!!) he could have bought a cottage somewhere and left the Mount Street flat for the others. I'm sure he could afford it. The horrible Jane's probably got plenty of dollars too. (She was American wasn't she?)
And anyway, I think after living in a place for a long time one gains rights. Algy, Bertie and Ginger need a good lawyer. And Biggles needs a psychiatrist.
Algy probably needs counselling for bereavement :-(
OK, SA, I surrender. I was merely trying to point out that it was the way Biggles DID it that I objected to. if he'd have given them 6 months or so would that make you feel better? I'm with you all the way, really I am, honest! Mind you, I still think Jane's got her eye on Biggles Des Res.
ReplyDeleteFairblue, you got it in a nutshell in your earlier post!
ReplyDeleteI really think it's quite awful...why kick the three of the others out when they can just go! it seems to me Biggles wouldn't care where he was, as long has he has that woman with him! Quite disgusting, really.
And as to little Janes and Jameses, you wouldn't really do that to us, would you, Soppy???
To be quite fair, the flat was Biggles', and he'd been letting the three of them live in it (with or without rent) for the past few years, but that doesn't make it THEIRS. I agree that he could have given them more notice, but he'd known for some time that he would have to do something about the others. Jane had been telling him for ages that he needed to talk to them, but he kept putting it off until THIS happened, and now nobody's happy (except maybe Jane).
ReplyDelete'Few years'?!!! In Algy's case, decades!!!!!! Much of his adult life. The real Biggles would never have done such a dishonourable thing. Thus we know it cannot be the real Biggles. Q.E.D.
ReplyDeleteWell said, SA. **Big round of applause**
ReplyDeleteI'm fairly sure that Algy had his own flat before Ginger showed up. I'm not sure whether he moved in with Biggles after Ginger joined them, or whether they started sharing a flat after WWII.
ReplyDeleteThe "real" Biggles did a lot of things during the Marie era that wasn't very Biggles-y, either. I thought we'd already established that Biggles' mind cannot be trusted when he is around women.
Lest anyone accuse me of heartlessness, please be assured that my heart is every bit as broken as all of yours are. And keep in mind that I'm the only one who has seen Algy walking the streets of London, downing endless drinks in some dark pub, and thinking moody thoughts as he takes a post-drink stroll by the river...
Don't use the word, Algy and 'Thames'in the same sentence, Soppy, please!!
ReplyDeleteJust explaining where Algy went after he got kicked out.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Soppy. Algy did have a flat in Baker Street - the reference is in Black Peril.after that in true WEJ style it's all a bit vague as to when he moved in.
ReplyDeleteBaker Street...hmmmm....
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else think that Algy had an alternative career as a man named Sherlock?
After Black Peril, I expect Biggles insisted Algy moved in with him to help him look after Ginger!
ReplyDeleteHe might have! Ginger is such a handful!
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