Street Reading and Street Reviews

March 21, 2010May 26, 2010 Writing The Long Way Around

Forgive me WordPress for I have sinned. It’s been nearly three weeks since my last post. There has been a lot going on, not least my sister being injured in a car crash. It was quite scary the first few days especially when she stopped breathing after her lungs collapsed but I am happy to say that she is going to be absolutely fine once orthopaedics finish stapling and glueing her leg back together. Travelling to the hospital to see her requires a four hour return trip and given that I haven’t spoken to my sister in 18 years, bedside … Continue reading Street Reading and Street Reviews

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Currently Reading…

March 9, 2010April 28, 2010 Writing The Long Way Around

…Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt and considering a move to Savannah. Continue reading Currently Reading…

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A complaint to Hodder and Stoughton

February 27, 2010March 16, 2011 Writing The Long Way Around

I am a very lucky girl to have so many talented friends. I have friends from whom I can pump information about the law (in Scotland), classical music, opera, dance, ballet, horticulture, interior design, museum design, industrial construction, diving and deeeeeep diving, cakes, the provision of water for an entire country (funny I never tend to ask her many questions), the internet and most things tech, advertising (same person and an impressive force to reckon with), print and design, national tourism, e-bay, the property market, internal corporate communications, international project and/or event management, sales, life and executive coaching, knitting – … Continue reading A complaint to Hodder and Stoughton

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Just sorting through

February 27, 2010March 16, 2011 Writing The Long Way Around

wheat/chafe, rough/diamonds, cream/crop, fairy dust/dust bunnies, frog’s/prince’s, haystacks/needles, utter crap/nuggets of writing that you feel you can work with – oooh sump’n shiny…etcetera, etcetera, and so on… go-on, go-on, go-on, go-on, go-on. Continue reading Just sorting through

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But that’s not what I meant!

February 20, 2010March 16, 2011 Writing The Long Way Around

Luckily I checked a word on askoxford just before using it in a Twitter update. The word had absolutely no relation to what I was saying and I am so relieved that I checked! Whew. Continue reading But that’s not what I meant!