@janeshuff
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
Glad to hear you are managing to write ‘bits’ but very sorry about the ill-health. It’s a bugger, especially when you know that you’re not firing on all cylinders – so frustrating on top of everything else. However just reading about your research makes me want to read the novel that will result! It’s an enticing concoction. There’s every chance…[Read more]
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
Hurray! And well done on the home schooling. Have you managed to get any writing done as well?
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Richard's Literary Byways: Arthur Machen and the Angels of Mons in the forum Blogs 5 years, 11 months ago
Fascinating, as ever, Richard.
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JaneShuff posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
Is anybody up for a beta read of my mystery/thriller around a sixty-year old conspiracy? I’ve spent the last few months locked into writing it and am in urgent need of a fresh perspective. Let me know if you’d like to know more.
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Send it over Jane – I know and enjoy your writing. Let me know if there’s anythig specific you want me to look for.
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
And so far, on rereading it, it’s not a disaster!
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Hooray!! Victory 🙂
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Monthly comp – April 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
I have to agree with Ath, they were a wonderful lot of entries this month. Congratulations to Libby and to everybody who took part. Fingers crossed I might get an entry in this month!
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JaneShuff posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
Halloo Hallay (or however you spell it) A gruelling 3,400 words today but I’ve finished the first draft of the end chapter that’s been bugging me for so long. Truly hope I don’t despair when I read it back tomorrow!
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Applause from me – been there done that, AND emerged triumphant, but no matter how often the solution is found, there’s always the fear it never will be again!
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And so far, on rereading it, it’s not a disaster!
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Hooray!! Victory 🙂
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Ghosts in machines! Is there anything more terrifying? Sitting in there, watching us all through Google whatsits…glad it didn’t get you, @raine…
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I am pleased to report I have not been eaten. 😀
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Phew!
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Ghosts in machines! Is there anything more terrifying? Sitting in there, watching us all through Google whatsits…glad it didn’t get you, @raine…
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JaneShuff posted an update 6 years ago
Is anyone else watching Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema on BBC 4 and on IPlayer? I am really enjoying it and finding it quite interesting on structure and genre. Well worth a watch IMO. Of course it may have been on for ages and I am very behind the times!
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Ah – thank you! I completely forgot that was on. I shall head there forthwith.
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
I don’t think you’re alone in suffering from scattybrainitis @kazg. Sending reinforcing hugs.
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
I had to hunt out our cheque book when confinement started as we’re having to do a lot of payments by cheque. I couldn’t even remember what colour it was.
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I’ve not written a cheque since October 2019. The one before that was written in April 2019. I haven’t handled cash since 31st March when the pharmacist called round with a prescription I had to pay for. Credit card points are building up nicely. Silver linings and all that.
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
Sounds lovely. I’ve never seen them though. Is there a reason why they wash up? Our beach, although lovely in every way, doesn’t get much washed up apart from bits of fishermen’s nets.
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
Lovely to hear your news @skylark. And so glad your bike ride was a success. Enjoy your family time!
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I saw the little clip on FB, and it looks utterly splendid! Especially wonderful to have right now I imagine!
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@raine It is! It’s been a bit of a worry the last month that his only exercise has been doing Wii sports in his standing frame and our unqualified attempts to mimick his physio sessions. I feel better knowing we can go out biking two or three times a week – a good cardio workout for him with the hills we have around here!
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@janeshuff Thanks! We are making the most of what we can of this strange time. Hope you are keeping well xx
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
No swallows as yet but in the evening the beach (forbidden to humans) is full of birds congregating along the water line. It is getting light enough after supper to slip past the ‘interdit’ signs and watch them dart in and out of the little frothy waves or stand still on the sand and watch the sun set behind the islands.
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What a delightful picture you paint, Raine. No, I have not seen any swallows yet, but many other birds visit our garden, as we have countryside all around our home. We are a long way from the sea and beaches, but we do have terracotta bowls of such items as you describe in our home – many dating as far back as when we lived in Cyprus! Have a…[Read more]
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Looking out for swallows here. We only moved in in January, so not sure what the avian fauna are like, except there a rooks/ravens plucking twigs from trees and then flying off to build nests, and seagulls doing their squawking thing, and since we started putting food out the sparrows, tits and similar have been very enthusiastic, also the rats…[Read more]
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Yes @raine, What is a sea brick?
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😂 It’s a brick that’s been washed up by the sea so it’s all eroded and smooth. We get a fair few normal ones but a white one was special! Sea tiles are my fav – bits of broken and smoothed ceramic from all sorts of things. Old decorated plates are the best.
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
Hi Squidge. Much the same as you, my head space is not into writing. I’m doing what I can and have forgiven myself for the fact it’s so slow. Apart from that we’re pottering on, enjoying the glorious weather from the safety of our own garden and surrounding countryside during the permitted hour a day we’re allowed out.Nature is slowly expanding to…[Read more]
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Hello, Squidge and Jane. I was interested to read how present circumstances are affecting your writing. Like you two, I am keeping busy (and maybe distracted) with the simple things of life and enjoying the slower pace, actually. Not to say there isn’t the general underlying anxiety, but trying to keep hopeful and positive despite all the…[Read more]
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JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
Fingers crossed from me too @kazg. A lovely boost though.
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Retreat sounds amazing Kaz – and I am totally not surprised they were won over by the Needlies!! Love them so much. On the + side, by the time this is all calmed down a bit, you will be in SERIOUS need of a bit of time away, so it’s nice to know there is that waiting for you. How is Book2 going atm?
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Thanks @janeshuff, @sandradavies and @raine! Sorry I didn’t see this Raine, I’ve been a bit erratic on all fronts lately. Book 2 is crawling along, it needs much more attention than I seem able to give it, unfortunately! I had so much great beta feedback and I know what needs to change to make the book stronger – but getting my head in a fit state…[Read more]
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I don’t think you’re alone in suffering from scattybrainitis @kazg. Sending reinforcing hugs.
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Thank you, gratefully received @janeshuff (I MISS HUGS) x
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Mixed feelings about the whole school thing here – some are going back, some not, some parents agree, some don’t… Having seen reports where teh libraries are being taped off with hazard tape to stop the kids handling books, I don’t think I’ll be putting my volunteer librarian hat back on for some time…
Yes, much as I and the mini are missing school (!), I am so glad we aren’t in England & facing going back to schools when it isn’t safe and when the measures schools are forced to use seem to be stripping all joy and light out of the school environment. Those photos of taped off bookshelves, and of chalked squares in the playground make me feel sick.
Bits, yes. I am struggling health-wise, and my capacity to structure and concentrate is shot to pieces. But I am doing lots of ‘research’ reading (about hedge magic, herbal remedies, victorian women botanists and the British Raj!), and pantsing a couple of novels that are almost certainly destined for the bin but are providing some escape for now.…[Read more]
Glad to hear you are managing to write ‘bits’ but very sorry about the ill-health. It’s a bugger, especially when you know that you’re not firing on all cylinders – so frustrating on top of everything else. However just reading about your research makes me want to read the novel that will result! It’s an enticing concoction. There’s every chance…[Read more]