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How are you all?
Posted Apr 24, 2007
Well I dont seem to have any friends,"wipes tears and sobs". In the friends column noone else has joined me. Never mind i will keep on posting and someone will decide to have a conversation with me.i hpe!
So how has everyone enjoyed the recent warm weather. It is official ,spring is the new summer. I was in London last weekend and it was so warm and sunny. I think there is no where in the world as beautifull as the UK in good weather.We all love the sunshine and the warmth, despite all the talk of skin cancer and being sunburnt. It is human nature to enjoy the warmth,it makes you feel better.
So what has everyone been doing in the warm mother i wonder?
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Politics and all that jazz
Posted Mar 6, 2007
So there was an injuction on something the BBC wanted to report, since friday we kept hearing all about it. There was not a single bulletin either on the radio or the t.v. when this blasted injunction was not mentioned.I think if they had let them report whatever it was in the first place then everyone would have forgotten it. Like you do,or in some cases people dont bother to listen to the bulletin.
But there it was because it had a ban on it so everybody was talking about it. So let this be a lesson to the government. In future if they want something they want the general public to know and talk about it...well then they should do what they did on friday. they should get a court order for it not tobe broadcast, and hey presto..everyone will know it.
Make a not please civil servants!
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Latest reply: Mar 6, 2007
About writing
Posted Mar 5, 2007
Am reading a book on writing by Stephen King.Yes,the horror writer! But he doesn`t talk about the horrors of writing but writes in a charming and self depricating manner about the craft.Someone once wrote that not since Dickens,"has a writer had so many readers by the throat".He knows how to engage and absorb you.
This is part biography and part collection of tips for the aspiring writer.His advice to writers is practical and easy to follow.
Has anyone found books on writing helpfull? I was recomended books by Julia Cameron called "the Artists way" and the "Right to Write".I found them to be quite fancy, a lot of play on word and encouragment,but King has practical , hard nosed advise.Whereas he talks about the actual topics and how to turn them into a story.
I will be interested to know if anyone else have found books on writing helpfull and if so what are they?
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Radio phone-ins
Posted Feb 28, 2007
Arrrgh, am addicted to radio phone ins.well I love radio anyway.Never have been a big fan of the television. Years ago when I came to England,in the seventies,I was a young and naive girl. didnt know much about this country, though I knew a bit about the lirerature and the beautyof this land. I have always enjoyed and had a radio in India where |I came from; and it only seemed natural that my purchase was a wireless here. I discovered Jimmy Young and Terry Wogan. Their banter cheered me up, and danced to the lively songs they played.It taught me the ins and outs of the language and about the customs and about life as it is lived in England.
Then one day I found radio4,and I was hooked. This was the first talk radio I have listned to. Since then I have seen the growth of more talk radios and the phenomen which is radio phone ins. I find it ascinating that through this media you get the opinion and the grieviences of the nation. You hear the pain, the anger and sometime some comical conversations.But all humanity comes together for an hour and I love it. I will talk about the various genere of these programmes. It is getting late now and hopeully that5 distasteful film about the sex life of our deputy prime minister must have finished by now, i better go and listen to the news.
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