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Love it! It was Donny Osmond for me, but not for very long. Adam Ant pushed him out!

For I remember, I think we naturally turn to the most impactful memories – the really good or bad or unusual ones. I wonder if we tried to do a specifically ‘good’ version, how different it would be. Or how hard it would be to pick out those kind of memories?

Oh, Hil – your I remember struck a chord, as we’ve done this recently about people we’ve loved and lost to prepare an artwork for a community project exhibition (I blogged about it just today). Sending hugs – it’s never easy to do.

Hope your time with your grandson helped ease the pain – you certainly got some interesting snippets! Love the belly…[Read more]

I do love your mini, @raine 🙂

Thanks so much @raine! I happily and humbly stand in line behind reptiles and felines, in your absolutely correct pecking order 🙂

Did the listening exercise this morning. Not ideal as I couldn’t hear very well – the tables were too far apart. So it’s not dialogue, just snippets. But, for what it’s worth, here are some of my eavesdroppings!

…completely messed up my belly button…
He obviously thinks they’re after something else.
I was pulling roots up and at the end I…[Read more]

I’ve read the chapters for both books. (The gorgeous passages got declaimed loudly in the library in my lunch break – had a lot of fun with the Twain dialect.) Not started on the exercises yet but I might manage some I remembers tomorrow 😁

This is wonderful! I love the way your I Remembers become a narrative – I was completely there with poor younger you, and what a shero Glenn’s mum was! Banana and custard is all kinds of slimy wrong.

Yes excellent dialogue harvesting, Raine. You’re a quick getter-downer.

And that I Remember is drenched in memory and emotion and sensualness. Just beautiful.’Old hands cradling nothing…’ x

Fabulous, Sea! So many childhood moments conjured up there. Really lovely.

Thank you, Kaz.

I’m very happy to be on this journey with all you amazing writers, as well. What a privilege! I understand your reaction perfectly @hilary.

I’ve read the Le Guin chapter (again – luckily I already had that book but haven’t properly done the exercises, so hooray for this course) but I’m still waiting for my Burroway book to arrive. Can I get…[Read more]

oh Hilary, that is just brimming with grief and love and is so, so evocative and sad. Beautiful, too. It made me cry for his loss, you made him so alive on the page xx

Andrew Wille sends his regards to the group and says if we have any questions please ask. I think he’s posting bit of additional stuff soon on his website.