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My mother began collecting postcards when she was au-pairing in Italy in the early 1970s. Her parents kept all the cards she sent home from her travels, including pictures of many Roman antiquities. These then formed the core of a substantial collection that has grown over the last 40 years as my mother passed the [...]
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Recently I have been trying a new way of keeping a journal using the lovely little “storyboard” notebook by Moleskine. The idea is simply to fill a frame a day with some little sketch. This really works well for me because I am not a great drawer but I do enjoy doodling and the challenge [...]
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After my A levels, I spent seven months working in a pub to save for a gap year. At the time I had set my heart on being a writer and the patrons of the bar were such delightful personalities I must have got a lifetime’s worth of plots and characters just listening to the [...]
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I can still remember the thrill of reading my first sentence; it was not unlike the day I took to riding a bike without stabilisers – a sense of flying along, slightly out of control but terrifyingly free. Writing my first sentence was more painful, though.
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Writing surfaces like the many humps of the Loch Ness monster in every part of my life. I would encourage anyone to think of starting a journal if only to help them to identify the repeated footfalls of the greater themes in their life. At some point you have to fall in step with them or forever be running away.
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Vetch is beautiful, distinctive and abundant in our hedgerows at this time of year. I acquired a taste for this plant when I was about nine years old and chewing on it always takes me back to that time in my life when I would dawdle home from school and munch handfuls of the stuff. [...]
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