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Great Books Are For Sharing…
Photo credit :: Janko Ferlic / Pexels I just happened to write a comment that I needed to read this book, (my sister in-law was it reading at the time) and a wonderful friend loaned me hers….. Photo credit :: me It was a fabulously quirky read – I highly recommend it! I laughed and…
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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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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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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…
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Sometimes Life Gets In The Way….
This is the perfect description of my life at the moment…… A whole bunch of life getting in the way of the things I want to, or need to be doing. (Like writing!) Whenever I contemplate our move to the UK (which is in two months time), I have this news feed of ‘To Do’…
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When You Are Creatively Constipated …………. Part 1
We’ve all been there, right?! Being a writer while also being a mother, (housekeeper, taxi driver, chef, nurse, umpire, hairdresser, blah, blah, blah) sadly means that I am time poor, not on the poverty line but I don’t have a lot of spare time to throw around. Being also an ‘all or nothing’ kind of…
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