Last on the card – a bean in April!
Post the last photo you took in April – the latest round of the monthly challenge from bushboy.
Continue reading “Last on the card – a bean in April!”Maria Donovan is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She won first prize for Flash Fiction in the Bridport Prize 2019. Her published works include a short story collection: 'Pumping Up Napoleon' and a debut novel, 'The Chicken Soup Murder', which was shortlisted for The International Rubery Book Awards and a finalist for the Dundee International Book Prize.
Post the last photo you took in April – the latest round of the monthly challenge from bushboy.
Continue reading “Last on the card – a bean in April!”In ‘Quilt’, an exhibition appearing at the University of South Wales, two-hundred-year-old letters written on Washi – Japanese paper – are layered into works of art. We were asked to send our own brief words to appear alongside.
Continue reading “Words and Washi”Here’s a chance to check whether your manuscript really is ‘submission ready’. Thanks to Gretchen of ‘Thoughts become Words’ for letting me share her original post with guest Cate Whittle on: ‘Sending Your Book Baby Out Into The World’.
Continue reading “Sharing a post! ‘Levels of Editing’ by Cate Whittle via Thoughts Become Words”Post the last photo you took in March – the latest round of the monthly challenge from bushboy. I got this one past the censor!
Continue reading “Last on the card”Snapshots of the Moon and Dorset with snippets from the diary at what turns out to be a difficult time.
Continue reading “Winter into Spring”Reblogging this repost from our friend in Australia just ahead of Two’s Day because I enjoyed it so much. It’s all there (but, sadly, Stephen Hawking is now deceased).
♦ What if my dog only brings back the ball because he thinks I like throwing it? ♦ Your future self is watching you right now through memories. ♦ If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? ♦ Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or […]
Wise and Weird 22/2/2022
An old way of writing yields new work; I feel a connection to a dear lost friend through her gift of a pen.
Continue reading “Filling in the blanks”Odd looking back through a year in pictures, to see them in a mass stretching back ‘to this time last year’. I picked 12 of my nature photos – it seems I like shadows, odd angles and the sea.
Continue reading “12 from 21”The text of my one-page story – a complement (and a compliment) to Daniel Trivedy’s artwork ‘Welsh Emergency Blanket’.
Continue reading “Friday flash – People of the Village”Refugees welcome - Flüchtlinge willkommen I am teaching German to refugees. Ich unterrichte geflüchtete Menschen in der deutschen Sprache. I am writing this blog in English and German because my friends speak English and German. Ich schreibe auf Deutsch und Englisch, weil meine Freunde Deutsch und Englisch sprechen.
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One person's experience of living with dementia
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We Dwalen Af gaat over - ja, wat eigenlijk precies? De dingen in het leven. Of beter gezegd de dwalingen in het leven. Van Michiel Huisman tot de Spice Girls. Van ongemakkelijk zijn tot heerlijk eten.
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capturing memories one moment at a time
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