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France - For Better or Worse: September 2010
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France - For Better or Worse. Life in the Midi Pyreness. Monday, September 13, 2010. All Good Gifts Around Us. As I think I’ve said before (ad infinitum probably) September and October are the best months to be here in the Haute Garonne. There are three main reasons: the tourists have gone home (sorry tourists. love to see you come, love to see you go), the weather is absolutely, gloriously warm and mellow and we are awash with nature’s bounty. If you have an over-abundance of plums there’s just ti...
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France - For Better or Worse: July 2010
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France - For Better or Worse. Life in the Midi Pyreness. Saturday, July 17, 2010. Racing Bikes and Fireworks. Old hands find a grassy knoll outside the city and bring their own food and wine. A few years ago the police had to close the Toulouse/Narbonne motorway due to the huge number of cars which had stopped on the hard shoulder to watch. Now it’s slightly more controlled, well, as far as the French ‘en fête’ can be controlled. In the week following the Fête Nationale the Tour de France descends on us ...
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Sarah Duncan's Blog: May 2012
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Thursday, 31 May 2012. Cut The Boring Bits Using Summary. Real life is not the same as fictional life. Real life is lived in real time, boring bits and all. Fictional life is the edited highlights. Summary is a useful tool for this:. Have you seen the new film? No, not yet,' Agatha said. Do you want to go? Yes, sure.'. Bertram cleared his throat. 'What about Friday? Friday sounds good.'. Great Do you want to meet for a drink beforehand? Yes, why not? That should be okay.'. See you then.'. Yesterday after...
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ChrisCross: September 2010
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Musings of a Grumpy Old Woman as she Muses on Life,the Universe and Everything. The Book Trunk has moved to Wordpress and is now thebooktrunkblog, at * *https:/ thebooktrunkblog.wordpress.com/* Well, I seem to have had another of thos. Some Like it Hot. Gone With The Wind. Wednesday, 22 September 2010. I MUST have the wrong fridge, the wrong food – or the wrong family. My own family’s dietary likes and dislikes make it difficult, if not impossible, to create a meal that everyone will eat. I, on the other...
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The Yellow Room Editor: November 2012
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The Yellow Room Editor. Books Read In 2011. Say You Love Me by Marion Husband. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell. Madeleine by Kate McCann. The Vows Of Silence by Susan Hill. An Empty Death by Laura Wilson. Set in Stone by Robert Goddard. Bleed For Me by Michael Robotham. One Day by David Nicholls. Secrets by Freya North. The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore. Paper Moon by Marion Husband. The Boy I Love by Marion Husband. PS I Love You by Lilian Harry. An Outrageous Affair by Penny Vincenzi.
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Paul's Writing Blog: August 2014
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Mainly about writing, but other things will doubtless crop up . . . Wednesday, 27 August 2014. In other words, reading about how to be a better writer won’t make you a better writer. It’s only writing that does that. Friday, 1 August 2014. I'm delighted to have won first prize and a cash sum of £500 in the Writers' Village. For my novel The Belfast Boy. Is what principal judge Michelle Spring - Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge - said about The. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just in cas...
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Paul's Writing Blog: Daggers
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Mainly about writing, but other things will doubtless crop up . . . Tuesday, 1 July 2014. The Crime Writers Association handed out a few Daggers at their Awards dinner yesterday (30th June). Here’s a summary of the results:. The CWA Historical Dagger. Went to Little, Brown editor-in-chief Antonia Hodgson for her debut novel The Devil in Marshalsea. Hodder), a crime thriller set in the infamous London debtor's prison in 1727. The CWA International Dagger. Went to Arturo Perez-Reverte for The Siege. By Ger...
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ChrisCross: Reindeer and Candles
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Musings of a Grumpy Old Woman as she Muses on Life,the Universe and Everything. The Book Trunk has moved to Wordpress and is now thebooktrunkblog, at * *https:/ thebooktrunkblog.wordpress.com/* Well, I seem to have had another of thos. Some Like it Hot. Gone With The Wind. Wednesday, 3 December 2014. Look what I saw yesterday – reindeer! At the local garden centre! Thank you for commenting on my blog. I love to hear from readers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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ChrisCross: June 2010
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Musings of a Grumpy Old Woman as she Muses on Life,the Universe and Everything. The Book Trunk has moved to Wordpress and is now thebooktrunkblog, at * *https:/ thebooktrunkblog.wordpress.com/* Well, I seem to have had another of thos. Some Like it Hot. Gone With The Wind. Sunday, 27 June 2010. The Guardian of the Garden. THIS is my Guardian of the Garden, who moved in on Mid-Summer's Day, after I found him in a charity shop. It is like magic: from old plants I have brought forth new. There are baby ...
