Without
sounding silly in the current circumstances, I hope you have all managed to
enjoy Easter so far. Hasn’t it been strange? Our lives restricted worse, some
old ‘uns tell me, than the war. Leastways there are no bombing raids.
Something
I meant to do was tidy up my Spam boxes on my email accounts and there,
surprisingly, was an email from our dear friend Ray Foster. His wife is not too
well as we know, but now this lockdown situation hasn’t made things any better.
Having said that Ray tells me he has caught up on reading the ‘Famous Five' and
'Biggles' novels which he finds so refreshing in this day and age. He also has
a collection of '50's and 60's novels that the PC crew have not tampered with!
Happy reading Ray!
It
was almost a shock having a thunderstorm, albeit a short one, yesterday
afternoon. It got me thinking about a couple of times when I’ve been affected
and so I thought it would be nice for our WhatsApp members to come up with a
hundred words on “THUNDER.” That’s happening right now and there are a couple
of stories posted already.
I
have found the WhatsApp link has helped revive some of my flagging writing. If
you’re not a member of the group and have WhatsApp then Justin will do the
necessary to join you up.
As
far as our usual homework is concerned, it would be great if we can all create your
usual gems and post them in to me at scribblers.1@btinternet.com
Although we can’t read them out, I am currently posting one story a week on the weblog until
such time (same old excuse coming up!) we can find a password protected site
that we can all use without the general public looking in.
Our ‘Trapped’
homework finishes on Wednesday when a new one homework begins. This time we,
that is the boss, Georgina, and I think it would be good to give you all the
freedom to write between 500 and 750 words on any subject or theme you wish. Deadline for these stories 28 April.
Talking
of Georgina, she has been posting some interesting links for tips and
competitions. Here are two of my own which might prove useful to you. They are:
bang2write.com
and
The time has come for me to
leave you in peace… don’t forget to keep checking the weblog for further news
and tips that might pop up.
Keep smiling if you can, or
tearing your hair out if you must, but, most of all,
Stay safe.
Dave.
