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6 July, 20096 July, 2009 4 comments Writing Writing Views: 219
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  I have always been a believer in writing lists. My Father wrote lists for everything and it is probably the first memory of writing that I have. Amongst those I best remember were the lists of people to send cards to at Christmas, the list... Read more
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2 July, 20092 July, 2009 0 comments Published Published Views: 147
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Back in May I had two pieces in successive copies of The People's Friend. On the old site someone suggested I post one of them for those who didn't see a copy but it has taken until now to track the originals down. A change of computers since subm... Read more

28 June, 200928 June, 2009 6 comments Writing Writing Views: 206
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The postman has just delivered a copy of Writers' Forum for July. They run a feature called First Draft for which you are invited to take around 300 words of a published novel and introduce twenty errors for others to proof-read. I decided to give it... Read more
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27 June, 200927 June, 2009 6 comments Pootling Pootling Views: 260
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  When OH discovered that the forecast for the first week of Wimbledon was good he decided it was a great week for a break. Could I find anything on-line? Now we do not do "abroad" so it was the UK I was confined to. We do hotels for short b... Read more
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18 June, 200918 June, 2009 4 comments Natural World Natural World Views: 236
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 As we drove to our nearest town to shop this morning I spotted a number of sections of the roadside that had burst into colour as the latest wild flowers reached their flowering season. I noted the locations of especially good patches of meadow... Read more
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16 June, 200916 June, 2009 0 comments Writing Writing Views: 101
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I thought it was about time I did some actual writing today. I did manage to send off a letter to a magazine with a suggestion for content but haven't got any further with the articles I have been working on. I think I need a spur and I just hope I h... Read more
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14 June, 200914 June, 2009 2 comments Natural World Natural World Views: 199
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It's a glorious sunny day here today and we have been drinking our coffee on the patio. Just as we finished a shadow passed overhead and we saw a red kite circling around. Since their successful release in the Chilterns some twenty odd miles away the... Read more
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13 June, 200913 June, 2009 2 comments Natural World Natural World Views: 226
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By rights I should hate this time of year and especially the plants that choose to flower at this time as I suffer from hay fever and grass and tree pollens are the chief culprits. However, I find the colour of our wayside verges a very uplifting sig... Read more
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11 June, 200911 June, 2009 0 comments Writing Writing Views: 82
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At the beginning of the week I read about a magazine that was looking for submissions on green living issues amongst other topics. I thought a topic I had recently written about could be reworked with a green twist and decided to contact the editor. ... Read more
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10 June, 200910 June, 2009 0 comments Writing Writing Views: 114
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Why is it that when I have plenty of time I never seem to achieve much on the writing front but as soon as I have a busy day I manage to slip in an hour of writing and feel I have really achieved something?   Yesterday the whole day was spent ... Read more
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