Beds and Blue jeans a Country Music story

 Beds and Blue Jeans is set in present day America (Pre Covid)... It is about a love affair between a young couple who drift into living together and having a baby, and how they make things work

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Rough Music By Nadine Sutton

 It is a story set in the USA, in the late 1970s.    It is a story about work and life, as well as love.   It doesn't have a happy ending.   Its more about finding a satisfying life, than about love or marriage... 

I’ve based it on what I’ve read about country and rock singers in the days when touring was a constant part of their lives.  It was hard work and took its toll on the marriages of many singers.   Women were just beginning to look for more in their lives than marriage but marriage to rock and country singers was likely to be an up and down ride for both genders. 
 

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Sayers new life Part II

In her letters to John Cornous, Dorothy discussed the possibility of his helping her to find a new man. She wanted to be married rather than engage in another affair. She may have felt that outside Bloomsbury, there might not be many men at that time who would take on a wife who already had a child by someone else. But around this time, she met "Mac" Fleming, a journalist, who had been in the Army. He was now writing on sports and motor racing. He was several years' Dorothy's senior and was divorced from his wife. He had been in the Boer war and then in World War one. He suffered from health issues relating to his war service. He had left his wife and children and ceased to send money for them, so his wife got a divorce. Dorothy was probably not deeply in love with him but at first they got on well. He seemed to be all right with her previous relationship and her having a son. Dorothy told Ivy that while she hoped to adopt John Anthony, later, she and Mac were working and did not have the space or time to look after the child. Ivy lived in the country and could give him full time attention, and she had other children in her house, who provided him with companionship. Mac agreed to adopt John later on, and he met the child. He and Dorothy moved into her flat, and they settled down to married life. He was fond of cookery and good food as was Dorothy. He helped her with her books as he knew about advertising. He and Dorothy were not able to marry in church, due to his divorce. They married in a registry office and she took him home to meet her parents. The liked him. He was affable and good natured and he seemed very fond of Dorothy, taking care of her when she was ill. The first years seemed happy. Dorothy was working very hard, and Mac also had his work and helping his wife. They followed motor and motorbike racing venues as this was an interest they shared. They also enjoyed the cinema and the music hall though he did not really share her more academic interests. Dorothy was writing her Wimsey books, gradually making her hero a deeper and more developed character. The books sold well but she kept up her job at Bensons for some years. She liked working in town but there was a lot of pressure in her life. Mac had arrears of income tax to pay off. His health was not good. He had stomach problems after his war service and he became increasingly depressed at his poor health. They often had elderly relatives staying. Mac was generally a "good husband" but as time passed and he became more depressed he began to drink more, which did not help his physical health problems.

Sayers new Life

Dorothy had a lot of sadness, following the birth of her son. She had to give the baby to her cousin, and she worried about him, although she knew that Ivy was a loving and experienced foster mother. She could not talk to anyone except Ivy about the baby. Her affair with Bill had come to an end. He was unable to do anything to help financially and he was a fairly selfish man. Once the baby was born, he moved on to other relationships. Dorothy gave up hope that he would take an interest in his son. She met John Cornous again, when he returned from America and for a time she wrote to him. He wasn't very sympathetic but at least she could talk to him about her son. Cornous was still a selfish and difficult man. He had married an American woman during his stay in the US. Dorothy was hurt that after his insistence that he did not believe in marriage, he had chosen to marry another woman. Their correspondence was not very satisfying as he was annoyed that she had become Bill's mistress, after refusing to be his. During her pregnancy, Dorothy had been working on her second novel, Clouds of Witness. She had had to re write some of it, while very preoccupied with her personal problems. The novel was much more emotional than her first one. It told the story of Gerald, Peter's brother and Mary, his sister whose fiance was found dead. It covered the love affairs of Mary and Gerald, and culminated in a trial in the House of Lords.

Sayers Secret Life

Dorothy was horrified when she became pregnant and then learned that her boyfriend was not free to marry her. She had just found a reasonably well paying job with prospects, but she was far from rich... and if she lost her job, she would not be able to support a baby. Bill was also unable to help with money. He could not get steady employment and he had already a wife and child to support. She decided not to tell her parents about this as it would probably shock them very much. She knew they would be willing to help but her father was a clergyman and also far from well to do. She decided to keep the baby's existence a secret and to support the child on her own. Bill's wife proved willing to help her with managing the birth. She was keen to help keep it a secret... Dorothy took some time off work, to go out of London. She had the baby in a private nursing home. She was tempted to tell her mother but refrained, believing that it was her problem and her burden to carry. Her cousin Ivy (together with Ivy's mother) lived in the country and made a living, looking after children whose parents were unable to care for them. Towards the end of her pregnancy, Dorothy decided to ask Ivy for help. She knew that Ivy was an affectionate capable foster mother and would be good at looking after the baby, but she was part of the family. That meants there was a slight risk of the secret slipping out to her parents. She had written to Ivy to ask if she could take on another child, who would "not have any legal father" -. She did not tell her that she was the mother. In early January 1924, Sayers' son John Anthony was born and she told Ivy the truth. She felt she could trust her cousin not to be judgemental and to keep the secret. After handing over the child, she returned to her job at Bensons.

Sayers In London next part

Dorothy became friendly with Bill White, a motor mechanic who came from a middle class family but was finding it hard to find steady work. He had been visiting friends who lived in the same building as Dorothy. She brought him home to meet her parents, and he stayed at her house for Christmas. But it does not seem as if the affair was very serious on her part. She was rather lonely and upset by the end of her relationship with Cournous. He had aroused her sexually yet frustrated her, and his behaviour had done a lot of damage to her self esteem. She liked Bill, who was good natured, and unpretentious. He enjoyed the cinema. He taught her about bikes and cars and she was happy to take him to dances at Bensons. However, having been involved sexually with Cornous, it was probably inevitable that her relationship with Bill would quickly become sexual.. in spite of her religious scruples. She rushed into what she saw as a light relationship which would cheer her up after Cournos' condescending behaviour and desertion. Within a few months, she accidentally became pregnant, in spite of using precautions. She then found that Bill was a married man, who was in an on and off relationship with his wife. He was not well off at all, having been mostly out of work for some time. He was not free to marry her. She realised that for a third time she had made a bad mistake in getting involved with a man.

Sayers In London Spoilers for Whose Body

Dorothy enjoyed her time in Bensons, the advertising agency, at first, though she later came to be dubious about the morality of advertising. She loved to write, and at the time it was about clever writing, making slogans, and thinking up ideas to promote products. She wrote copy for Colman's Mustard and may have invented the slogan "It Pays to Advertise". She also wrote copy for Guinness. She kept very busy with her work and her writing, believing that if she could do well out of "Lord Peter" books, she could eventually quit advertising and become a full time writer. However her affair with Cournous was a difficult one and depressed her. Eric Whelpton had flirted with her but he had made it clear that he was not seriously interested in her.. Cournous was more selfish. He did "date" her, and she half believed that she might persuade him to marry her. He seems to have felt that he would only commit to her up to a certain point, and that he still did not wish to marry. But if Dorothy was willing to become his mistress, first, he might consider marriage. Dorothy was cautious because she was essentially conservative and too religious to think of having an affair without a great deal of thought and stress. She broke off with him, because she could see no future in the relationship. Cornous went to America to promote his novels there. Sayers had written her first Lord Peter novel, "Whose Body" which was quite well written and an enjoyable read. Peter becomes involved in a murder case when his mother's architect, Mr Thipps, finds a dead body in his bathroom. It seems that the body is that of a missing Jewish financier, Sir Reuben Levy, whose wife was a friend of Peter's ditzy, charming mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver. The novel did not sell as well as Dorothy hoped but it was a start. In her second book, she created a case set in Yorkshire, and involving members of Peter's family, his sister Mary and his brother the Duke of Denver. In this novel, there is a shooting party.. and Denis Cathcart is found dead, he was the fiancé of Mary.. and the Duke is accused of his murder. By now Dorothy was finished with John Cornous but she met a very different man, Bill White and "chummed up" with him..