The one thing you can say for certain about words is that no two people use them the same way. They are symbols for understanding something and they are open to interpretation. For anyone who wants to write comedy, this is surely a blessed state of affairs, bestowing upon us homonyms, alliteration and a host …
Month: August 2011
Free Association Friday
Taking a leaf out of the Motheroad blog, which I periodically clog with irrelevant comments, here’s a list of things I’ve observed over the last couple of days: 1. A shop assistant on a till, asking the customer in front of me what the fruit or vegetable was that they’d plonked down – because they …
Back to the Feature 2
In which our hero sees his future, attempts to change his past (which, from his future’s perspective is his present) and then his present’s past (which is the past from all perspectives except the past itself and the past before that). Just as the clippings I preserved so diligently (even if I forgot about the …
Back to the Feature
I’ve been glancing up at the cardboard folder on the top shelf above the screen for, oh, I don’t know how long (well, I do now, but work with me on this). It’s the one marked ‘clippings’ and stems from the time when I was a project manager and gathering ideas for my future outpourings …
Share and share, a lie.
Most people enjoy an occasional gamble. It might only be a once a year punt on the horses, a lottery ticket (It could be you – or someone else) or a scratch card. It seems to be part of our nature – the desire to take a risk and acquire a disproportionate reward. The trick …
Lost & Found
I’ve spent a little time this week scanning in photographs for blogs-to-come and as memory joggers for Scars & Stripes. Following feedback from Anne, Susie and Monika, I’ve decided (I think) that S&S works best when it’s 1st person and more honest than the first draft appears to be. Warren was definitely right that 3rd …
Make Believe for Grown Ups
Creative thinking and the use of the imagination are often hailed as two of the secrets to productivity, originality and a whole bunch of other ‘alities’ (except banality). Most people can remember a time when, as children, we would play as characters from TV, the cinema or books, or even from our own imaginings. I’m …
The Setting Sun
The wonderful thing about photographs is that, when they’re your own, you can step into them in your mind’s eye. Every picture has a story, but more than that, it also has a range of sensory memories. Take this little beauty above. It was the last day of the trip to Egypt and the sun …