A pity, that. Ah, well, I'm sure Biggles will have something to think about when he discovers Ginger and Bertie have been arrested for stealing his car. this just gets better and better, soppy. I try to think of what's coming next and failing miserably!
I suppose (grudgingly) she's better than Marie, who used him and nearly got him killed again when he went to collect her in Looks Back! But still. maybe he'll come to his senses.
I suppose it is our Biggles in this story? Not some long-lost relation who our Biggles recruited into the air police so Algy didn't have to mind the plane all the time?
Of course SA! That has to be the solution! The chap who married Jane must be that tall, grey-eyed Biggles who turns up in the books from time to time. OUR Biggles is safe back home totally Jane free... Ahhh I feel MUCH better now...
Um - er - Maybe Raymond sent him away on a secret undercover mission.... Maybe Biggles' job is to turn up later in the story and rescue the other Biggles from the clutches of the once super-spy Jane.... I'm getting confused myself now - maybe I'd better just wait to read the next instalment of the story.... : - )
Jumping Jupiter said... The chap who married Jane must be that tall, grey-eyed Biggles who turns up in the books from time to time. THAT makes sense! and Fairblue said... It's one of Ginger's nightmares. He's lost in the desert again and is hallucinating! One of these has to be the answer!
Why do all of you insist on thinking that Biggles is level headed and has brains when it comes to women? He's already proven time and again that he doesn't!
Only once, Soppy (or twice if you count Looks Back, which I don't). (At least as far as WEJ's concerned). He knows his limitations. In Biggles Flies Again Algy wants to rescue a girl and when she bursts into tears Biggles says to Algy "Come and do your stuff laddie; this is more in your line." So, as SA says it was a temporary mental abberation, JJ's tall, grey-eyed Biggles or my Ginger's nightmare. Unless there's something I've forgotten in one of the Biggles books?
Biggles did have a bit of a soft spot for that Princess in 'Fails to Return',but to be fair she did save his life (but only after he'd saved hers.) He went quite un-Biggles like for a while with some of his compliments, but thankfully he was soon back to his old level-headed self once he got back to Blighty!
Yes, I'd forgotten her, but as you say, she saved his life, so he was allowed a bit of soppiness. We must also remember that he'd been seriously wounded so he obviously wasn't his usual self. But he didn't marry her, did he, so he did eventually return to his senses.
The very fact that Biggles calls Algy out to comfort a crying girl shows that he knows nothing when it comes to women! He's soppy over the princess in Fails to Return, uncomfortable in the presence of the princess in Goes to War, puzzled by Stella Carstairs in Biggles & Co., and keeps his distance from the stewardess in Little Green God.
In one of the Air Police books he doesn't consider a woman to be capable of crime, but it turns out that she is the baddie.
I don't think Biggles knows ANYTHING about dealing with women AT ALL.
By the way, just where did Algy learn all his charming ways if he's been knocking about with war, aeroplanes and Biggles since he was old enough to shave?
Come now - Algy was nicely brought up with a privileged background and would have been taught how to behave to ladies as part of his education. And he'd have had plenty of exerience at home.
To that you can add his inherent good nature and tolerance. I am beginning to sound like an out-and-out Algy fan!
In contrast Biggles was brought up in India with no white children, male or female, anywhere about. Not easy to learn the social niceties, although I do think he had good manners - I am sure his father would have seen to that.
I agree with the reasons for the differences between Algy and Biggles, SA, but having joined the RFC so young when did he start turning his charm on women? At what point did he realise he could charm the birds off the trees, so to speak? Home on leave, I suppose. and by then,of course, he was a war flier which would probably have tripled his attraction. I imagine a drawing room full of drooling young women. Hmm. Think my question has been answered
Algy is just a naturally very nice man to start with, and of course, as SA says, he was well brought up (and had a very strict mother who no doubt hammered into his head all sort of rules about ladies).
I rather like the idea of a fan club of girls drooling over "air ace" Algy Lacey.
And thank goodness he isn't the conceited type who thinks that he's the king of the world just because women are staring adoringly at him.
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A pity, that. Ah, well, I'm sure Biggles will have something to think about when he discovers Ginger and Bertie have been arrested for stealing his car. this just gets better and better, soppy. I try to think of what's coming next and failing miserably!
ReplyDeleteWell, keep reading--something might happen to her later. :) You can always hope!
ReplyDeleteAlthough Biggles might be very upset. He seems to like her a lot.
I suppose (grudgingly) she's better than Marie, who used him and nearly got him killed again when he went to collect her in Looks Back! But still. maybe he'll come to his senses.
ReplyDeleteI'm not so very sure Biggles has any senses left!
ReplyDeleteNot if he married Jane :)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not if he married Jane.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it is our Biggles in this story? Not some long-lost relation who our Biggles recruited into the air police so Algy didn't have to mind the plane all the time?
Of course SA! That has to be the solution! The chap who married Jane must be that tall, grey-eyed Biggles who turns up in the books from time to time.
ReplyDeleteOUR Biggles is safe back home totally Jane free...
Ahhh I feel MUCH better now...
Me, too. that's why Algy didn't step in. He's in the conspiracy too.
ReplyDeleteSo what happened to the real Biggles then? Did he fall asleep or something?
ReplyDeleteHe's going to be shocked when he finally wakes up.
Um - er - Maybe Raymond sent him away on a secret undercover mission....
ReplyDeleteMaybe Biggles' job is to turn up later in the story and rescue the other Biggles from the clutches of the once super-spy Jane....
I'm getting confused myself now - maybe I'd better just wait to read the next instalment of the story.... : - )
Uh...yeah. Well.
ReplyDeleteThe next bit. Yeah.
Is it okay to kill one of the main characters for artistic reasons?
Only if it's Jane....
ReplyDeleteI second that!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBiggles would turn a reproving eye if he knew how much you all hate his wife. He'd be very upset.
ReplyDeleteI thirds it!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, come now.
ReplyDeleteYou must like her a little bit....?
A tiny bit?
I mean, Biggles DID marry her, she must be sort of okay at least.
No, definitely no. He had a moment of terrible mental aberration.
ReplyDeleteI KNOW!! It's one of Ginger's nightmares. He's lost in the desert again and is hallucinating!
ReplyDeleteJumping Jupiter said...
ReplyDeleteThe chap who married Jane must be that tall, grey-eyed Biggles who turns up in the books from time to time.
THAT makes sense!
and Fairblue said...
It's one of Ginger's nightmares. He's lost in the desert again and is hallucinating!
One of these has to be the answer!
Why do all of you insist on thinking that Biggles is level headed and has brains when it comes to women? He's already proven time and again that he doesn't!
ReplyDeleteOnly once, Soppy (or twice if you count Looks Back, which I don't). (At least as far as WEJ's concerned). He knows his limitations. In Biggles Flies Again Algy wants to rescue a girl and when she bursts into tears Biggles says to Algy "Come and do your stuff laddie; this is more in your line." So, as SA says it was a temporary mental abberation, JJ's tall, grey-eyed Biggles or my Ginger's nightmare. Unless there's something I've forgotten in one of the Biggles books?
ReplyDeleteBiggles did have a bit of a soft spot for that Princess in 'Fails to Return',but to be fair she did save his life (but only after he'd saved hers.)
ReplyDeleteHe went quite un-Biggles like for a while with some of his compliments, but thankfully he was soon back to his old level-headed self once he got back to Blighty!
Yes, I'd forgotten her, but as you say, she saved his life, so he was allowed a bit of soppiness. We must also remember that he'd been seriously wounded so he obviously wasn't his usual self. But he didn't marry her, did he, so he did eventually return to his senses.
ReplyDeleteThe very fact that Biggles calls Algy out to comfort a crying girl shows that he knows nothing when it comes to women! He's soppy over the princess in Fails to Return, uncomfortable in the presence of the princess in Goes to War, puzzled by Stella Carstairs in Biggles & Co., and keeps his distance from the stewardess in Little Green God.
ReplyDeleteIn one of the Air Police books he doesn't consider a woman to be capable of crime, but it turns out that she is the baddie.
I don't think Biggles knows ANYTHING about dealing with women AT ALL.
Unlike Algy, who is great.
Exactly. Which is why he should have been running in the opposite direction to Jane!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, just where did Algy learn all his charming ways if he's been knocking about with war, aeroplanes and Biggles since he was old enough to shave?
ReplyDeleteCome now - Algy was nicely brought up with a privileged background and would have been taught how to behave to ladies as part of his education. And he'd have had plenty of exerience at home.
ReplyDeleteTo that you can add his inherent good nature and tolerance. I am beginning to sound like an out-and-out Algy fan!
In contrast Biggles was brought up in India with no white children, male or female, anywhere about. Not easy to learn the social niceties, although I do think he had good manners - I am sure his father would have seen to that.
I agree with the reasons for the differences between Algy and Biggles, SA, but having joined the RFC so young when did he start turning his charm on women? At what point did he realise he could charm the birds off the trees, so to speak? Home on leave, I suppose. and by then,of course, he was a war flier which would probably have tripled his attraction. I imagine a drawing room full of drooling young women. Hmm. Think my question has been answered
ReplyDeleteAlgy is just a naturally very nice man to start with, and of course, as SA says, he was well brought up (and had a very strict mother who no doubt hammered into his head all sort of rules about ladies).
ReplyDeleteI rather like the idea of a fan club of girls drooling over "air ace" Algy Lacey.
And thank goodness he isn't the conceited type who thinks that he's the king of the world just because women are staring adoringly at him.
That, of course, would just make him more attractive.
ReplyDeleteHands off! He's mine!
ReplyDeleteHave no fear, Soppy. as nice as Algy is, I haven't been converted yet. I'm still dedicated to Bertie. Can't speak for anyone else though ;)
ReplyDeleteSoon everyone will be an Algy fan...mwahahaha
ReplyDeleteThe more fans he has the more you have to fight off!
ReplyDeleteGood point.
ReplyDeleteBut then again, it's like buying handbags; it's always nice when someone else wants something you have, because it makes you value it all the more.
I suppose so, especially if it's a one-off! But really, Soppy, comparing Algy to a handbag!!
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't hear him complaining...oh, wait. I think he's getting killed right now. That would explain it.
ReplyDeleteWHAT!! **shock, horror**
ReplyDeleteI thought you knew he was in the middle of getting murdered??!!
ReplyDelete