Tag: flowers

1950s Italy features in my book …. 🇮🇹… but I need your HELP!

October 12, 2018

I am debating about setting the timing of the main body of the book in either;

A) 1999-2000 with a big finale at the turn of the millennium where my main characters will be late thirties/early forties, or

B) Circa. 2014-2015 with main characters early fifties.

Happy to develop either line but I’m going to have to ditch all the talk of mobile phones and developed technology if I go with A) 🙈😂

Timelines

Are so complicated but so essential to get right, or my relatives’ relationships with each other simply won’t make sense!

Any opinions from you guys about what age you prefer your characters to be?

Or is it less about age and more about them as people, their overcoming difficulties, their emotions being believable, maybe their attractions happening later in life is more modern anyway?

While I wait for your answers, I’m going to have a cuppa and a biscuit and admire my £1.50 vase and the £3 worth of dahlias I bought from a table at the end of a driveway in the next village!

Total cost £4.50 and value of the pleasure it’s giving me? Priceless 🌸

When you feel a little low, for no apparent reason, do something which makes you smile 🌸

July 2, 2018

I bought some flowers, to me from me! I bought them from Bloom & Wild an amazing London-based online florist who specialise in sending fresh blooms in specially adapted boxes 👌🏼🌸

My regular readers will recognise Matsu sharing the special space here and honest to God, I cannot forget that book.

I hate feeling tearful and low… must just be tired I think. Wimbledon viewing will help … that rippling applause from another court, the thwacks of nylon string against ball, the occasional 737 overhead departing out of Heathrow, the grunts of the modern players, the green grass (stripey right now!) … all of this is part of my annual calendar.

It takes me back to school days; when I yearned to race home from school to watch the evening matches.

This sight makes me smile.

The flowers make me smile.

Sharing my world with you makes me smile.

Here’s to a smilier day tomorrow 💪🏼

SYW … Cee’s fun challenge

May 21, 2018

Today I cut some lilac and some irises from my garden which I rarely tend. The water in the jug is so fresh it makes the stems look almost neon green!

On Thursday I am catching a train to London to meet a lovely friend I have made online through an amazing book club FB group… and she is also on the New Writers Scheme with the RNA, so we are supporting each other 🌸

I cut these flowers today because I wanted to create a beautiful photograph to mark the receipt of a gift. I received the book you see from the very same friend I am meeting Thursday and this act of kindness made me more than smile. Her enthusiasm that I should read a Marian Keyes spilled over into her treating me to this copy 💜

I am going to say the household chore that I quite like these days is ironing .. I hated it before but now I find it great thinking time!

I will always be found with my tattoo … my little wrist star which I love.

Taking part here in Cee’s ShareYourWorld challenge