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I am an Oxford modern languages graduate and former journalist, now a full-time mother, poet and short story writer. I love reading, writing, swimming, squash, walking, mulled wine, watching television dramas or films and belly dancing.

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Creative Writing CV

Sarah's extensive poetry and short story publications and competition successes.

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1818 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 16/10/07 . 07:59:59 am . Permalink . Email . 1781 views  17 feedbacks

Why read Sarah's blog?

This short piece should help people find their way round the various categories of my blog so they can get the most of the many posts on offer.

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254 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 15/10/07 . 08:44:47 pm . Permalink . Email . 1169 views  3 feedbacks

Worse for wear!

Both my dress and I are suffering the after-effects of too much wine at last night's fantastic summer ball.

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186 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 31/05/08 . 12:13:09 pm . Permalink . Email . 273 views  4 feedbacks

Excited!

Seven-thirty in the morning and all is quiet in the house...for once!

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193 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 30/05/08 . 07:31:02 am . Permalink . Email . 283 views  6 feedbacks

On Trial!

It's been a week of trials for me, starting with contacts and then trying out my outfit for Friday's ball...with dubious results!

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361 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 28/05/08 . 08:22:38 pm . Permalink . Email . 287 views  5 feedbacks

One woman went to mow...

My husband's latest present has not exactly blown me away - though it's certainly moved me.

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211 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 26/05/08 . 08:30:16 pm . Permalink . Email . 239 views  3 feedbacks

Schooled-out!

It may be half-term coming up but I'm still feeling all schooled-out - for various reasons!

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277 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 23/05/08 . 05:38:38 pm . Permalink . Email . 244 views  4 feedbacks

Worth the weight!

I am now half the woman I was after squeezing into a size eight dress for my husband's work's summer ball...be warned, guys, you may not want to read any further!

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346 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 21/05/08 . 05:40:09 pm . Permalink . Email . 260 views  6 feedbacks

Rapture

Today, I've been swimming with Carol Ann Duffy...

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225 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 15/05/08 . 07:42:03 pm . Permalink . Email . 285 views  3 feedbacks

Antiinflammatories!

I've finally got fed up and am resorting to trying antiinflammatories to kick the bursitis in my hip into touch once and for all. I only wish they did antinflammatories for one's mental spirits as well as the physical body, as I could certainly do with some after today...

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271 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 13/05/08 . 07:28:51 pm . Permalink . Email . 251 views  7 feedbacks

Mother and babies doing fine!

We have cygnets! Walking down by the canal this morning I saw the two babies out for a swim with one of the swans. The other swan was still on her nest but it didn't look good for the last remaining egg.

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97 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 09/05/08 . 07:49:50 pm . Permalink . Email . 247 views  3 feedbacks

Another small step!

It really has been a surprisingly good month for me on the writing front. Today, I found out my poem Slivers had been chosen by Matthew Francis in the latest Guardian online poetry workshop.

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376 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 07/05/08 . 08:45:20 pm . Permalink . Email . 277 views  6 feedbacks

Net-working, not working!

I may not have been blogging much lately, but I haven't been doing much proper writing either. Facebooks, emails, phone calls and the like seem to have distracted me. It was nice though during one bout of procrastinating offline, to come across a name I recognised.

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334 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 05/05/08 . 06:50:48 pm . Permalink . Email . 284 views  6 feedbacks

Picture Perfect

All my buses are definitely arriving at once. A beautiful sunny day for yesterday's town festival, the boys at their grandparents so we could enjoy our first cinema trip in months and the latest issue of Orbis, complete with one of my poems inside!

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283 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 04/05/08 . 09:35:30 am . Permalink . Email . 218 views  7 feedbacks
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