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Summer wasn’t meant to be this way. Summer was meant to be about feeling the sun on your face, lifting your chin to let it filter down your body, enveloping you in a cocoon of gold.

Paula December 9, 2017March 2, 2018 All, Poetry & Prose, Writing Read more

A novel in a month? Easy peasy pudding and pie… (eek)

It’s National Novel Writing Month, or #NaNoWriMo to its friends and twitter followers.  The challenge has been set – to write 50,000 words in the month of November. The equivalent to a novel, apparently.

Paula November 3, 2010December 9, 2017 books, NaNaWriMo, Writing 22 Comments Read more

An Amazing Adventure

Sometimes you meet someone and it feels like it was ‘meant to be’.  Maybe you’ve admired them from afar before getting up the nerve to talk to them properly, and when you finally do you launch into a friendship that

Paula October 23, 2010May 4, 2012 friends, Travelling, Writing 17 Comments Read more

I never did learn to….

More years ago than I care to remember I was seized by the impulse to buy a pair of roller boots.  Inline skates were just emerging as the new big thing, but I wasn’t impressed – I wanted something more

Paula August 16, 2010 Observations, Travelling, Writing 25 Comments Read more

10 bad eggs….

“Open the door Emma, my key won’t bloody work…” “Em! I know you’re in there – c’mon, it’s pissing down out here!” “Jesus Christ woman, what is this?! I’ve just got off an eight hour flight, I don’t need this

Paula July 22, 2010March 2, 2018 Poetry & Prose, WIP, Writing 33 Comments Read more

Got any ID?

How long is it since you were asked that question? Personally, I’d have to go back to my early twenties when a tobacconist asked me for ID.  At the time I remember initially thinking it was hilarious: I was at

Paula February 4, 2010December 9, 2017 Observations, Writing 14 Comments Read more

Oh hell, what’s that word again?

What a fabulous language we have. Our vocabulary bank is simply engorged with eloquent words for every scenario.  The problem I have is finding the right one- my thesaurus is my drug of choice, always right next to my left

Paula January 25, 2010December 9, 2017 Writing 4 Comments Read more

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