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Something Spooky For The Weekend

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Celia: I haven’t got any spooky Halloween pictures but here are two atmospheric ones – the sort of  moments when ghost stories might be told…

A night for horror movies?
A night for horror movies?
Holiday barn...when the candles were lit, it was shhhpoooky
Holiday barn…when the candles were lit, it was shhhpoooky
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Sue : I wouldn’t fancy walking down this road on my own
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Sue : Time to pick a pumpkin or two …
Heads at the Harry Potter Studio
Heads at the Harry Potter Studio
Pumpkin carving. Whose pumpkin is this?
Pumpkin carving. Whose pumpkin is this?

 

Something For The Weekend … and The Autumn

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This week’s Something For The Weekend post has an autumnal feel about it as we say goodbye to September and hello to October.

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Rambling, chaotic borders, windfall apples, the last glut of runner beans, berries and long shadows across the lawn. Autumn has arrived in Debbie’s garden.

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Mother Nature at her best.
Mother Nature at her best.
Make the most of the sun, Bobby!
Swallows gathering, waiting to fly to warmer climes.
Swallows gathering, waiting to fly to warmer climes.

 

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The autumnal view from Jan’s bedroom window!

Something For The Weekend – Stylo Love

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Last Friday we gave you notebook love.

This week it’s all about the pens.

No drooling, please.

Boom! No messing. Coming straight out with the Sharpies
Boom! No messing. Coming straight out with the Sharpies.
The Pentel EnerGel is Laura's favourite
The Pentel EnerGel is Laura’s favourite. Look at all those colours.
Lucie's not fussy, she'll write with anything she can get her hands on. Yes, even the One Direction pen!
Lucie’s not fussy, she’ll write with anything she can get her hands on.
Yes, even the One Direction pen!
Not a pen, but a very funky pencil, useful also as a catapult and for making rude signs - Celia
Not a pen, but a very funky pencil, useful also as a catapult and for making rude signs – Celia
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Sue: A good old black biro medium nib will do me just fine, although I do quite like the odd ‘Frozen’ pen borrowed from my daughter.

Debbie: Ahh, ‘The pen maketh the writer …’

There’s nothing quite like gripping the cold, silky length of a Parker or Mont Blanc fountain pen, allowing the words to flow and then blowing or wafting paper until the ink dries. There have been three special ones in my life over the years but alas, each has succumbed to the special place in the sky where all the lost things go. For now, my trusty pencil, sharpened down to a two inch stump must do. The flow is still there and that is what matters.

Something for the Weekend – Notebook Love

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Sue : Which notebook next? Probably the dragonfly one my daughter decorated for me.
Sue : Which notebook next? Probably the dragonfly one my daughter decorated for me.
Laura: I love the chunkiness of this notebook. It's my short stories idea book.
Laura: I love the chunkiness of this notebook. It’s my short stories idea book.
The big one has my whole writing life inside.
Celia: The big one has my whole writing life inside.
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Vanessa: I have four notebooks on the go for my current work-in-progress!
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Lucie’s selection, from the plain to the pretty
Shh. Don't tell the other Romaniacs, but I'm sneaking this one in too. It's from a superb Times/Jodi Picoult event I attended in June this year. I'm going to use this notebook when I write book 5.
Guess who? Shh. Don’t tell the other Romaniacs, but I’m sneaking this one in, too. It’s from a superb Times/Jodi Picoult event I attended in June this year. I’m going to use this notebook when I write book 5.

Something For the Weekend : Writing Spaces

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A glimpse at our writing spaces – I’m pretty sure that one of two of us have had a tidy up before taking the photos. And some of us, not. 🙂

Sue : One day I will get an office but, for now, it's the dining table.
Sue : One day I will get an office but, for now, it’s the dining table.
Laura: I work in the dining half of our kitchen/diner. It's handy for the kettle.
Laura: I work in the dining half of our kitchen/diner. It’s handy for the kettle.
Laura: And when I don't need to spread out my research and photos refs, I work outside in an area I call my 'little piece of Italy.'
Laura: And when I don’t need to spread out my research and photos refs, I work outside in an area I call my ‘little piece of Italy.’
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Lucie – I reside in my spare room when I get the chance to write – lots of wall space for me to use up 🙂
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My cosy corner of the living room – Celia
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This is what it looks like from a distance!