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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Y is for Year
This week – the prompt is Y is for Year. It could be a specific year, for example 1066 or the late Queen’s Jubilee year. It could be a year which is memorable to you for a specific reason. It could relate to how old someone is: x years of age, but then things are…
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Memoir: Living Under a Romany Blessing
‘Ye’re not scared of buying from a Romany are ye?’ said the old woman at the door one November night. ‘Of course not,’ I said. My granny was born to travelling horse-dealers so no, I wasn’t scared. ‘Blessings be upon ye,’ she said. She was seventy-five if she was a day; a lot younger than…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: X is for All Sorts of Things
X can be used in voting, or on very old documents such as marriage certificates, where if someone couldn’t read they would mark an x instead of signing; you use it playing noughts and crosses, marking things as wrong, or denoting a location on a treasure map; it’s the horizontal axis on a graph, it’s…
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Memoir: Parcelwatching
I was watching my phone to get some clue as to when my parcel would arrive. It was to come from Peterborough to just outside Cambridge, a distance of some 36 miles. It arrived, 277 miles later. That’s over seven and a half times the distance it should have gone. What had happened? Where had…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: W is for Watch
So, we have watch as in a timepiece. What’s it’s significance? What’s it look like? Is it antique? Worth any money or does it have sentimental attachment? Why could somebody be looking at their watch? Is someone late, or early? There’s watch as in to look at something, to observe it – TV, cinema, wildlife,…
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Poem: My Spam Folder
The volume of emails coming into your inbox Is often alarming, I think you’ll agree. Thanks heavens we’ve all got our spam filters working Or else we’d be drowning in a spam email sea. My spam filter roots out the dodgy and scammy The grifters, the venal, the thick and the strange; So I’ve braved…
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Poem: The Usual Routine
Every morning, seven-fifteen Sydney showered, short but keen, Ate his breakfast, washed the bowl Listening to some rock and roll Flossed and brushed his teeth with care, Cleaned his glasses, combed his hair, Donned his shirt and tie and suit, Pulled on each well-polished boot; Grabbed his briefcase, coat and hat, Left the house and…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: V is for Volume
Well, there’s volume as in sound level. What is the sound? Is it loud or soft? What effect does it have? When is it happening? Is it a good sound or a bad sound? It could be the sound of someone breathing, or someone mowing their lawn at three o’clock in the morning.
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: U is for Unusual
This week – the prompt is U is for Unusual. Unusual. Out of the ordinary. Something you wouldn’t expect. Strange. Different. Not normal. It could be something out of place… a window open when it shouldn’t be or a door closed when it should be open. Maybe it’s somebody who shouldn’t be where they are,…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: T is for Track
This week – the prompt is T is for Track. As a noun, there’s track as in a footpath, a track as in a running track, or track as in an individual song an LP/CD. Animals leave tracks through the woods or in the snow. Railway tracks criss-cross the country, and it used to be…