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Sandra replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Have to confess I avoid much of that for Steve, by ordering and collecting the books I want and handing them over for him to ‘hide’ (recognising he is doubly challenged by my having a birthday five days before Christmas.)
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Athelstone replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Every year I aim to be organised (see Terrie above) and pick presents well in advance. The practice is different. I may not be quite as bad as the proverbial desparate man, the evening before, in the petrol station shop, but I’m cutting it close.
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Sandra replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 2 months, 2 weeks ago
@ Terrie – I second Ath’s recommendation for hard drives: the one my thoughtful elder son bought for me, having listened to my moans, scrambled its contents when my laptop blew several gaskets.
@Athelstone – “gift lists for next year” not illegal, they masquerade as Amazon wish lists, ready to be re-written for handing to my local bookshop.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 2 months, 2 weeks ago
By the way, ” I’ve even written my gift list for next year”. I believe this is actually against the law.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh yes, prevaricating about the bush as Wallace refers to it. I do a great deal of that. Top tip. Every so often, copy the contents of that 1TB hard drive somewhere else as well. Whether that’s the Cloud (Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive, Apple iCloud and so on) or another sleek 1TB hard drive. The day may come when your adorable cat decides the…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I always seem to come on here to apologize for not being here… Suffice to say that Life is a bit complicated and sad at the mo, and I’m not at my best. When I have the head space, I’ll be back.
Power to all of your pens in the meantime though 😉
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John T posted an update 2 months, 2 weeks ago
For those of you who are interested, Apples in the Dark is now available as an Ebook (paperback coming at the end of June). Almost ten years in the writing, tearing up, rewriting, rewriting again, etc – but it has finally got there. Links to books and to website in my Linktree. https://linktr.ee/wordswithjohn
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Pinkbelt started the topic Monthly Competition – February 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 months, 3 weeks ago
It’s great to pop back in and see some familiar faces still hanging around.
Sticking with my own situation, I’m going to go with a one word theme – ‘Returned.’ You are open to interpret this anyway you like: a person returning, or an object being returned, or even something being turned and the turned again if you’re really into hyphens.
Less…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks, Athers, for a competition theme that gave me much head-scratching before I found a direction, and for chuckling, since I didn’t intend to sound self-pitying. Also I thoroughly applaud your giving Pinkbelt the opportunity to challenge us in February.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Well, what do you know? Three totally different old things.
Sandra, you brought a bit of Rembrandt’s brutal honesty in your piece. I’m not sure whether I was meant to but I chuckled along as I read this. It reminded me of the moment when I realised that my hands now resemble my own father’s as I remember them from years ago. It was an honest…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi Pinks. Good to hear from you. Hope you stick around a bit longer, cease lurking and share a few words.
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Pinkbelt replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 months, 3 weeks ago
An Old Face
“What became of Pinkbelt?”
“Oh God, do you remember him? Lurking in the dark places projecting his murky thoughts into the world. Wasn’t he the guy who wrote grisly scenes with hudreds of f-bombs?”
“Yes, that’s the guy. I heard he got signed and the fame we to his head.”
“No, my mate said he got a few rejections and gave…[Read more]
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Woolleybeans posted an update 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I simultaneously get hooked on worldbuilding and dislike putting in a lot of exposition. I’m all ‘yeah, I only mention this one thing in passing, but it has much info in my head that you will never know’.
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John T posted an update 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Thanks to advice from Daedalus, Richard and Athelstone, my entry to Whodunnit with all the weird code is now fixed!
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John T posted an update 3 months ago
Anyone on here. Help. Something went wrong in the copying of my story to Whodunnit. It’s full of visible computer code. Anyone know how to cure that?
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Try toggling between ‘Visual’ and ‘Text’ and pasting into it set to one then the other to see if it works better. The only other alternative is to paste it into a notepad-type app where it will clear all the formatting, and you won’t get the code, but you probably will need to go through it in the editor and manually add things like italics (and…[Read more]
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Thank you – I’ll try.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 3 months ago
‘Mirror, Mirror …
When I say my bathroom mirror is old you shouldn’t imagine some gilt-framed, spidery-silvered antique, for it is a bevelled-edged two-foot square of glass, bought in ~1969 and screwed at each corner onto the wall above the sink and opposite a window twelve inches larger in each direction.
In daylight, my image backlit…[Read more]
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Woolleybeans posted an update 3 months ago
Welp, as my laptop has decided my writing since…August does not exist, I am going to start over on some stuff. Which is a good time to work on the Den challenge, because so far I have a playlist I am listening to which is, in my mind, linked to this story. I just have no actual words yet… But that counts, right? Right?
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Athelstone posted an update 3 months, 1 week ago
Aha! I’m away at a writing weekend in Bournemouth! Still checking here and really happy to see the action. Must post soon.
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