Category: Writing
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Not Nice
100 Day Project Day 19 There’s a bit of discourse on the socials about the word nice, and some people are just finding out that being nice isn’t the same thing as being kind, or being good, and that being nice, Nice, is more of a facade that covers a lot of nasty. It’s not…
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Photo Challenge #2 / A Small World
I was going to choose the prompt “Round/Square”, but looking at the list, I quite like “A Small World”. I have spent the day rooting around in my creative room sorting through beads and jewellery things. It surprised me to realise that we have been in this house for three years and most of the…
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Vanilla
I like vanilla ice-cream, and I like vanilla as an ingredient in cooking, but when I read this prompt, the meaning of “vanilla” that came to mind was the one where “vanilla” is used to describe sex, and from there developed into a general insult meaning boring, unexciting, plain, safe. Safe, now there’s a word…
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My favourite quote ~ Maya Angelou
365 Days of blog prompts ~ “Quote me ~ Do you have a favourite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you?” “I decided many years ago to invent myself. I had obviously been invented by someone else – by a whole society – and I…
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Resolved
Once I kept a resolution about losing weight, but what I learned about other people’s attitudes to a woman losing weight made me resolve not to discuss losing weight on social media… Yesterday I wrote on this blog that I wasn’t making any resolutions because they usually end up as a Things Not Done list.…
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Stroke of Midnight Hogmanay
For the first time in as long as I can remember, I struggled to get excited about Hogmanay, the Bells, and the New Year. Social media was full of positive posts brimming with hope, and I felt the pull to pretend, but I am committed to not people-pleasing, because I have done quite enough of…
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It is all in the timing
In the far distant past we replaced the entire central heating system of the flat we lived in at the time – radiators, under floor pipes, boiler, the whole shebang. Prior to the arrival of the rather lovely father and son team who undertook the job, I undertook the preparation tasks which involved lifting the…
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Old free-writing
I came across some files of old writing as I intermittently try to organise and declutter my life. I’ve written piles of bunkum in my life, but I found this wee piece in a folder of “freewriting” that was scribbled at some point. I suppose you could say my clutter, even my digital clutter, has…
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The Nag, the wrong lens, and a Kelpie enchantment.
I read a snippet of advice the other day about advice, and the advice was that by the age of thirty-five you should be at the stage of telling people where to stick their unsolicited advice. I’m late to the party, but I’m definitely someone who needs to start practising. I’m an absolute magnet for…
Thrummie Bizzum 