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  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Free Week

    This week – the prompt is entirely up to you. This is a free week for you. Write about whatever you like. You could be inspired by absolutely anything: nature, architecture, food, sport, history, geography, art, archaeology, entertainment, literature – the list goes on. You don’t have to write reams.  The poet Ian McMillan posts…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Z is for any word containing Z

    This week – the prompt is Z is for any word containing Z. Easy one this week – you can choose any word that’s got a z in it and use that as your prompt. So there’s a few common words starting with z – zone, zero, Zumba, zip, zinnias… but there’s many more containing…

  • Poem: Why I Don’t Keep a Diary Any More

    To track the year ahead of me, I bought myself a diary. Looking back now, it is clear: This was not a good idea. January – Tried to ski, Ended up in A&E. February – Valentine. Not a single card was mine. March – St Patrick’s celebrations. Drank green beer, had palpitations. April – Shakespeare’s…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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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