Nano is time consuming. Useful, sure. Satisfying, eventually. Fun? Well yes and no. It seems to involve a lot of bashing at the keyboard – my ‘e’ is looking pasty and, oddly, my ‘s’ has developed a squint – followed by some creative staring: into space, at Dog, out of the window, into the kettle (I’m testing a theory about watched kettles and have moved from an outside study: that is ascertaining the ideal distance from which to study the kettle so that it isn’t distracted from the matter in hand, viz bringing the water to the boil – to the consideration of the inside only my glasses steam up and my beard has withered somewhat in the heat), at my nails – pretty much anywhere other than at the page.
And it is apparent that my creative juices need a bit of a boost. Flagging. Drooping. A lack of pert. When Nano is done…
December is coming and I’ve promised to pen a short story as a guest author. I want to write some other stuff. I’m working on memoir of my mum, too, using some of the posts I’ve done about her here on this blog. And I’d like, maybe to do some more.
Here’s the thing. Can you help? All I want from you is a word or two. A prompt. Maybe a phrase. Nothing specialist – like the word for the inside lining of a camel’s spleen – but just something that might trigger a memory. Don’t be too obvious. Or modern. She didn’t really do ‘modern’. Just pop them in the comments, I will sift through and see where they take me. I promise to do a little blog-pluggery if you are chosen.
Let’s see where it takes us.
Winter jacket
Newspaper article
TMI (too much information) 🙂
Great ideas brewing here, Geoff.
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fab Sarah… the jacket is an instant smash
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Vegetables
Technology
Glasses!
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a list which says more about you than me…
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He he!!! I love veggies and technology and the amount I stare at a screen, I may need specs again!
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A soldier looking at the moon from the Queen Mary as it takes him home after WWII.
How the ocean humbles me, a tiny drip becomes a sea, creating a tsunami.
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ah now you are a stretcher of ideas – brilliant too!
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Forty winks. Why on earth I am thinking of these two words may simply be determined by the fact that I am sitting by the fire, pet iPad on knee, and I can hardly keep my eyes open. The beep from your piece landing in my inbox shook me from my reverie. Plus my wee Granny (who looked very much like your mum) used to do/have/get/take this most afternoons.
Hope they help. Ninight.
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ta everso… several winks later….
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You’re everso welcome. Maybe you needed a few winks before your burfday tomorrow. St Andrew’s Day, very good day to be born, methinks. Enjoy it and congrats on the book release too. Big day tomorrow!
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No good to man nor beast.
Neither use nor ornament.
Shall we have the news, dear?
This is where we came in.
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Lovely, rich pickings Gilly
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Breakfast
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A particular favourite – an elderly acquaintance when asked ‘what’s it like getting old?’ answered ‘it always seems to be breakfast.’ I seem to be finding this too…
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Pie crust, homemade or store bought?
Shirt collars, pro and con.
Young people these days….
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excellent – thank you
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I was brought up to believe
Do your best dear
The garden needs…….
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perfect thanks – PS Life in a flash is on its way…
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Trigger memories of your mum?
Baking days: favourite recipes, botched meals.
School pick-ups: embarrassment, talks with the teacher
Knows best: when did you mother know what you were up to?
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thank you! great ideas
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Now I am not going to suggest the word for the inside lining of the camel’s spleen, as if i would. But as you know i do like interesting and unusual words, So how about words that seem obscure but are, I believe, the only words for things you use every day.
How about an Aglet and a Tittle?
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um… tittle… i’m not sure I should be allowed out with ‘tittle’…
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What – when you use tittles all the time. You used three in the comment above.
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The first word that came to my mind was “Home”.
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lovely and so it came to pass….
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😊😊
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chopper
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I’m really not sure which meaning to use, maybe the three that occur instantly – thanks… i think
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🙂
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Chopper Harris, 1960s/70s Chelsea ‘hard man’ !
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Shopping trolly, holidays, oven gloves, bees, telephone, the Radio Times…
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Thanks Hugh. That describes a holiday with my Gran.
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Glad it helped, Geoff.
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