Write on- My brain burst writing this post!

We have become so conditioned to hype and hysterical writing that it is a part of our everyday lexicon.  Just last week there was a bomb threat at a bank. Someone according to the news had thrown a silver container … Continue reading →

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A morning opinion rant- Is rape a feminist issue?

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I was reading The Times last Saturday when a question posed in an article caught my irritation. I have very little interest in the goings on of Prince Charles’s second wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall,  but the question posed in … Continue reading →

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Tales from the City- A writer’s idea of a perfect day in London

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I was in need of an article printed in 1925 in The Weekly Dispatch, and there was only one place to go, The British Library Newspapers Collection, in Colindale. When I told someone I was heading up to Colindale, the … Continue reading →

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Write on- I feel so pressurised I might just explode!

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It’s funny how words are used on both sides of the pond. I grew up with my father’s clear demands to speak the King’s English. Me, being far too clever for my own good, would respond to his demand with–Well, … Continue reading →

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Tales from the City…dodging the tube fare!

I was on my way to Oxford and on the tube to Paddington.  It was one of those wonderful days when seats were plenty. I was at Baker Street and a movement a little farther down the carriage caught my … Continue reading →

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Write on- A library without books? Is that like a typewriter without paper?

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One of the pleasures of books is their sheer physical appeal. I love the slight ripples in exquisite papers, the smell of the ink, the pressed imagines, the leather of a binding, the embossed title, and the sound of the … Continue reading →

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