Category: Writer, Blogger
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An Epic adventure part 3 …… The Absence
It’s taken me months to get around to writing about my time away in Australia… I’ve sat down with the intention to write of it many times, but I found it exceedingly difficult to put my experiences into words. I welcomed in 2018 with a shadow hanging over me. I dreaded the months disappearing as…
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Writings :: Found
There she stood. A still form in a sea of movement, of conversations, laughter and gesticulating hands. Fingertips worrying at the hems of her clothes, she pulled them this way and that, aware of nothing but her appearance. If you looked for her she would be found at the outside of things, having slowly made…
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Capturing the moment…
Photo credit : Tobias Bjørkli / Pexels This morning was the perfect winters morning…..one of those you want to write about, to catch a snapshot of it on paper. As I got out of the car, the air was so crisp my breath steamed in front of my face, pink cheeked from the cold. The…
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Overthinking
If I’m honest with you (and with myself), I have avoided writing for a long while. Why? For lots of reasons every other writer has for not sitting down to their keyboard/notebook/random bits of paper…. Life gets busy and it’s hard to carve out that time to yourself…… Then routines change and life gets even…
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An Epic Adventure ………The Leaving
My first post, should have been the second post. But looking back, I can see with clearer vision to paint the whole picture, to tell the whole story…….. I intended to put fingers to keys long before now. I had high hopes of writing and sharing the journey I’ve been on. But as often happens,…
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An Epic Adventure part 1
I have to be honest. Leading up to this day, I have had very mixed feelings about my journey to the homeland. I guess it was more the knowing that I HAVE to go to apply for a spouse visa, than it feeling like a long holiday without the kids. Yes I am looking forward…
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Finding Character Inspiration
Today I had to be in town while Pablo (the family car) was in for an annual roadworthy inspection. As it was drawing closer to the time he was due to be finished (45mins), I wandered passed the auto shop. I saw Pablo sitting with his boot open and a man inside. I asked how…
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Writing prompt #1
Can’t you feel it? Can’t you sense it creeping round the outer edges of your thoughts? It’s there, if you’ll stop long enough to notice. It’s hiding in the shadows of your conscious mind. You feel it sometimes in the shiver of your spine and the goosebumps that appear without reason. Your body knows what…
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Wake up call…..
There is nothing like a long week of illness to make you rethink your life style. Not that I am a particularly unhealthy person, I just eat certain things that my body doesn’t tolerate too well. That and the fact I love dark chocolate……. If it were able, what would my body says to me…
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Don’t wait for the time to be right, to write.
I know I haven’t posted anything in months – sorry!! Life has been busy and noisy and whole lotta crazy! Right now I’m at the dining table with all three children at home. And by ‘home’, I’m talking about a two bedroom flat. My (nearly) four year old, is yelling at my five year old…
Carrie Baker - The Growth Collective 