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Month: January 2016

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NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge

8 August, 201931 January, 2016

In which I am taken up with the NYCMidnight short story challenge, a competition to write a sort story against the clock, within a genre and incorporating a specific character and an object.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary

Drawing the Bottom Line in Ghent

18 September, 201927 January, 2016

It’s very dull, misty, grey and monochrome in Belgium at present so we choose to visit the Bottom Line – an exhibition of drawing – in Ghent.

Categories Exhibition, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Stories from the sleeping place

23 February, 201920 January, 2016

A photo visit to the cemetery at Ixelles (aka Elsene), the sleeping place for many Belgian dead and the resting place of many stories.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
Featured books distorted

All the Books I Read in 2015

21 January, 202116 January, 2016

This is a list of the 30 or so books that I managed to read all the way through during 2015, together with a little information about, each of them.

Categories At the Quill, Reading diary, Reviews
Ghana Christmas featured

The Ghana Christmas ball and my father Christmas

11 August, 201913 January, 2016

The Ghana Christmas ball was the first Christmas present I remember receiving. I was six years old and I was given the ball by my Father Christmas.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories

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Childhood, the latest edition of The Poet magazine, includes two of my poems
Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

You may also like to read my blog post about Far Flung and about my writers group.

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Princess Uncumber – a retold tale
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Why I really don’t like Kindle
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Book boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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