By Queen-B Lyn

A big welcome to our new Webitor,  Mel. It’s great to have her at the helm. Now at last I can go away without worrying about what’s happening with B-C-ing-U!

Where did I get her from? I hear you asking. Quite a long while ago, I realised that I was going to need a new Webitor who would work with me to bring B-C-ing-U! to you. Caroline was highly recommended by my friends at High Weald Dairy but she was far too busy to do it so I met her friend Mel. Mel said she would love the chance to be part of something fun like this and so here we are!

We have Caroline and her husband as a strong, experienced IT backup and off we go again with a great, experienced, and enthusiastic team!

Mel was thrown straight in at the deep end as I had to go to Mallorca. I was reviewing four hotels and will be writing about them in the next few days.

On the flight home, I was in the aisle seat and a tall, blonde female grunted at me, which meant “Excuse me. I’m sitting there”. After a silent battle over the armrest — which I won — she and her boyfriend ignored me for the next three hours (the flight was delayed for half an hour due to French Air Traffic Control) and ate each other’s faces, with loud, slurpy kissing noises. Yuck.

I wondered briefly whether I should give him some snogging lessons as he obviously had no idea what he was doing, but I couldn’t be bothered.

In between slurps, she kicked her legs around at him, leaned against him and stared, enraptured, at his laptop game. They didn’t actually hold a conversation at all!

No… I’m not tall, or blonde when it comes to it, but at least I’ve got an active brain that empowers me to talk!

About Lyn

LYN FUNNELL CV (well, sort of!) Lyn had very successful careers as an Air Hostess, Sales Rep, (she was one of only a couple of women. She beat all the men regularly, becoming the Top Rep in the UK, and 2nd in the world.) And then Catering took over. She did everything from the washing-up, to Silver Service Waitress, and Chef. A few times, she had to cook the meal, dash round the other side and Silver Serve it! In between all this, she wrote as often as she could, building up a reputation as a published short story writer, (Horror and a twist in the tale,) and a Poet. She has appeared as a Performing Poet, and a Demo Chef. Then she discovered the world of the Food & Travel Writer. And that’s what she has continued doing to this day. Her main hobbies are Cookery and entering Competitions. She has won many prizes, including holidays and a moped. She enjoys entering Competitions, submitting her original recipes. She was first in many Competitions, including the Good Housekeeping Millenium Menu, Fruits of France, Bernard Matthews Turkey Recipe, and appeared on BBC’s The One Show Spag Bol contest. She was one of three Finalists, coming 2nd, which makes her Britain’s Spag Bol Queen! Now she runs B-C-ing-U! and loves it! After several years of being messed around by Editors, and having loads of contacts, Lyn formed her own online Magazine, vowing to treat her writers fairly, and to do everything possible to further their careers, publicise their books, etc. She now has a band of excellent regular writers, and the Magazine’s going from strength to strength! Lyn’s online published books; Adverse Camber A collection of my published poems. The First Book of Short Stories The Second Book of Short Stories The Third Book of Short Stories. Many of these stories have been previously published. St Anthony of Padua. The Patron St of the Old. A story of one woman’s terrible ordeal in a Home, and her family’s rescue of her. The Girl Who Watched. A Cuban girl is attacked by an English journalist & what follows! Willy the Whizz & the Wormhole. Suitable for Young Adults, aged 15-95! Get Out Of Debt And Stay Out – Forever! Unsympathetic, hard-hitting, realistic solutions to your problems. All these books are published by Andrews UK Ltd www.andrewsuk.com No, I didn’t pay them to Vanity Publish! They’re all available from Amazon, and many other online publishers. LYN FUNNELL.