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Get Graffiti-ing
Posted Sep 28, 2004
I have decided to make this journal a creative graffiti wall. I used to keep one wall of my downstairs loo in the last house as a plain white paper wall for guests to write on.
No rudery please and no strident politics. It must be creative and original.
Have fun
spidey
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Summer is ended
Posted Sep 20, 2004
My myriad flock of visitors have flown back north. Now I have the space and the quiet in the house to resume my writing. The pace has been somewhat frenentic during the summer months here.
My Czech student friends, though not living with me, have spent a lot of time at the house. I managed to find them all accommodation and in return they have been most helpful, clearing the garden, cooking for us a couple of times and looking after the house and dog while we went to the festival.
Seb (son's friend and our former lodger) brought his girlfriend Kaite to stay and they have camped in the garden most of the summer. Son has been staying weekends. He is a popular lad. A fine musician and songwriter. When he is here all his 'local' friends come round to see him and have a jam session.
Shame his twin sis has not made it down this year. Will have to journey to York soon to see her.
Other daughter and grandson pop in sometimes and youngest daughter who turned thirteen at the beginning of the hols has done that transformation thing that girls do in the third year of school and become a bit of a tearaway. In her death metal teeshirts and baggy jeans she denies that she is wearing a uniform!
She has been hanging out in the park every day with a band of about fifteen similarly attired mates and spending all her pocket money on bizarre jewellary from a hippy shop in town.
The production of Dad's Army last month kept me busy and another production The Golden Pathway Annual, is going on next week. That has been a bit of a nightmare. Two cast members dropped out a couple of weeks ago and last monday the leading man decided he did not want to do it. The lighting man has stepped in and is frantically learning the lines.
I started my volunteer job as a reading helper to three six year olds at a local infants school last week. I absolutely love it. If this year with them goes well and I am still standing at the end of it I am thinking about training as a classroom assistant next year.
What has all this to do with Get Writing?
Well, with all this going on over the last few months I haven't! Got writing that is. Only a couple of poems and mini stories. Now that I have the house to myself again for most of the days in the week I hope to rekindle the pile of ashes which is my ambition and muse and start to produce some work.
This post was mainly waffle and does not require you to answer!!!!!!
spidey
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Posted Sep 11, 2004
Violins and guitar strings
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