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I love language, I love what you can do with it, I love learning new words, finding the origins of old idioms, discovering new writers and seeing how they put their stories together. I love colloquialisms, localisms, vernacularisms and jargon! I love how every reader has a different visualisation of a writers' words. I hope you will enjoy the images the words paint within you.

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June 01, 2020

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Sinister sickness

October 18, 2015

Anita felt very grumpy. She had to go up to the local hospital for another test, but she didn’t really believe that they would find anything unless they did the real tests. She knew, she thought she did, what might be in her body, but she had sighed, got frustrated, even got angry, when she’d been up there before. No, they didn’t find anything, and yet she could tell them why her stomach was painful, why she had backaches, why her legs cramped, why there were hours when she couldn’t even see. Every single day she woke up early in the morning in pain, curled up with her stomach feeling like it was due to burst out, her head feeling like a migraine after putting up with the rest of her body for so long – and she believed that! She would lie on her side and concentrate on breathing in, breathing out, long slow breaths which she hoped, every day, would relieve her pain at least a little bit. It was a week since she’d last gone up to the hospital, to Emergency. She’d given them her ...

Pigs, Wolves and Hood

April 03, 2020

Have you read the Three Little Pigs in your childhood? How about Red Riding Hood ? You know, of course (don't you?) that they have been around for years . Roald Dahl and Jon Scieszca knew the real tales, and the're available on You Tube or published. Have a look at the You Tube videos The True Story of the Three Little Pigs or Revolting Rhymes - Three Little Pigs . Or look up the real books in Penguin Random House or in Angus & Robertson . I wrote a ... sort of ... review of these books. Enjoy! Wolf vs the Pigs – and Red Riding Hood @ Louisa Reid When Jon wrote the tale of wolf vs pigs The teller told of himself Who was, as he said, A hero and kind (*cough cough*) You can meet him from your bookshelf! In this tale he said he would sneeze Which, we now know, let him down If you’ve ever sneezed Then maybe you would know That sneeze became his breakdown He couldn’t trap the pigs while he sneezed at them He trie...