Squidge

  • Squidge posted an update 1 month, 1 week 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 πŸ˜‰

  • Squidge posted a new activity comment 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    interesting…

  • Wowser…spoilt for choice! Thank you all for taking my three little words and turning them into lots of great stories. As always, the three objects were used in very different and clever ways. So…

    Sandra – there’s something about a pipe-smoking detective, isn’t there? Lovely piece, with the rat almost in the trap until the detective took his…[Read more]

    • Thank you for a good challenge, Squidge. Congratulations, Sea, well deserved, though I enjoyed all of the other stories too.

  • Squidge posted an update 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    aaargh! Apologies, such a busy day at church yesterday, totally forgot I needed to judge the comp! Am on it now…

  • Squidge posted an update 5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Only a few days left to get something into the monthly comp… Looking forward to reading the entries!

  • Your prompt this month consists of three words:

    wheelbarrow, street lamp, and a pipe (smoking)

    Use them however you would like, in no more than 300 words. Have fun πŸ˜‰

     

  • Oh blimey! Did not expect that at all… Wow, thanks, Sandra.

    Everyone else’s was fab. Feel a bit of a fraud having popped in here for the first time in ages and getting to set this month’s challenge, but I’ll do my best x

  • Squidge replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum Group logo of Whodunnit?Whodunnit? 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    I’m like John…I always join in the hope I’ll be able to write something. This year’s been a shocker for the novel, so a change of content would be most welcome!

     

  • Squidge replied to the topic Choices in the forum Group logo of Whodunnit?Whodunnit? 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    Reading, Spanner, Serious

  • Not quite sure where this was going, but it felt good to respond to a prompt for the first time in ages… Also not sure why only a bit of the text unbolded when I was aiming for the lot! Ah well…

    β€œIn a yellow rectangle, in the black facade of a house, a woman is laying a table.”

    He could have picked any window, of any house, in any str…[Read more]

  • Squidge posted a new activity comment 1 year, 6 months ago

    Oh blimey, Ath…can imagine that being rather stressful.

    • Busy here too, but yes, life seems to feel ‘on hold’ as we witness the end of an era. While not being an ardent Royalist, I did have a lot of respect for a queen who was the unwavering anchor for her family, showing how publicity could be done properly without scandalous revelations. I think I shall miss her.

  • Squidge posted an update 1 year, 6 months ago

    Dipping in to say hi… ridiculously busy at the mo with Life, so barely time to breathe, let alone write! How is everyone doing at the moment, following the Queen’s death? Whether you’re for the monarchy or not, it seems to have impacted nearly everyone I’ve spoken to in some way, shape, or form. Sending hugs if you need them x

    • Doing well (I think). Similarly busy, especially yesterday when I was included in a tale of lost keys which necessitated a drive from Worthing to London and back.

    • Even for a republican like me it does feel like the end of an era. Thinking about how as a Scout we had to make promises to do our duty to the Queen etc, and every time you see a post box or a coin, or hear The King, it feels strange. Very few people have known anything different – @athelstone that sounds like an incredibly trying day, was it all…[Read more]

      • Yes, no harm done, thanks.

        • Oh blimey, Ath…can imagine that being rather stressful.

          • Busy here too, but yes, life seems to feel ‘on hold’ as we witness the end of an era. While not being an ardent Royalist, I did have a lot of respect for a queen who was the unwavering anchor for her family, showing how publicity could be done properly without scandalous revelations. I think I shall miss her.

    • I had a very strong (and somewhat unexpected) emotional reaction to the death. She has always loomed large in my life as my father is an ardent royalist. I’d expected to feel a bit sad, as I did when Prince Philip died, but I burst into tears when I heard the news. We were in Scotland and very nearly passed the cortege from Balmoral to Edinburgh…[Read more]

  • Squidge posted a new activity comment 1 year, 6 months ago

    Hope York goes well – I didn’t pick up on it this year as was already booked for a weekend away in September…which I can’t go to now because of visitors from India! Next year…

    • Thanks, both. I’m hoping it’s going to be a good investment as well as enjoyable. Looking forward to seeing some old friends and hopefully get the ‘York’ feeling. I’ll report back.

  • Squidge posted a new activity comment 1 year, 6 months ago

    Good to see you Barry

  • Squidge replied to the topic Choices in the forum Group logo of All You NeedAll You Need 1 year, 6 months ago

    Jewltown

    Yes there is

  • Squidge posted an update 1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello Denizens… Apologies for not having dropped in for quite a while. Been a bit all over the place with various life stuff, but still writing. Good to see news popping up on facebook for various peeps, and as we go into the autumn I’ll try to pop in here more often to keep in touch. x

  • Squidge posted an update 2 years, 1 month ago

    Gosh, it is ages since I dropped in…far too much going on in the world outside of writing! Hope everyone’s doing OK.

    I’ve finished editing the memoir I was working on – author very pleased with the result, so that’s good. Still getting to grips with Tilda #4’s huge plot hole and whittling away at that when I can. Still trying to carve out…[Read more]

    • Well, I can’t speak for anybody else, but I’m keeping well. Also ridiculously busy. MUST get an entry done for the comp this month, but currently polishing an opening chapter to take to a writers’ weekend in Bournemouth.

      Good to see you back.

  • Ath, I know I’ve not been round much recently, but that looks fab! Noticed that blogs and whatever the heading is next to it both go bold when you click on blogs, but it seems so much easier and intuitive to navigate. Thank you xxx

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