#challenge – Page 7 – Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

A Lesson Learned

Jun 18, 2025

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I love to read… everything… I have the compulsion to read. It can be a short story I come across, a news item, or the words on that packet of cornflakes that someone forgot to put back in the cupboard. I am also addicted to all those “How to be a Better Writer” books, and…

Inspiration Day…

Jun 11, 2025

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I read this quote yesterday and it quite literally sent an electric charge through my brain, waking up so many long dormant feelings and ideas. I have also been reading John Truby’s amazing The Anatomy of Story. I haven’t read much of it yet, but enough to know that it will reintroduce me to the…

Patience is a funny thing…

May 16, 2025

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Patience is a funny thing. And not just the card game… Never ending for some things, yet remarkably short for others. I am known for my patience and will often hang on long after most people have given up. But I am beginning to discover what happens when it runs out. My recovery at the…

A meeting of the ways…

May 8, 2025

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Detective Inspector David Snow… My office doesn’t look much like an office these days, what with catering to my suffering body, so I was very surprised when a familiar face appeared around the door. ‘Hi, Jaye. I thought I would pop in to see how you are. I heard the news and couldn’t believe…

When is the best time to write?

May 6, 2025

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The simple answer is that there is no right time to write. Whenever the mood takes you is a good answer. But what if that just isn’t happening? Is there a way to encourage your mood? I have read all the opinions of the experts, from forcing yourself to write anything for five minutes to…

My babies need me!

May 5, 2025

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These are not mine, but I wish… I am temporarily unable to go outside (my sister is still unmovable about this), and I do understand her caution. However, having done both, I don’t think there’s much difference between falling on concrete and falling on carpet. I have had some spectacular falls, but the one that…

More about the beginning…

Apr 28, 2025

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Just when I thought life could be any worse, it took such a nose dive it shook me to my core. It was Thursday, the day of my urology appointment. When I was wheeled into his office in a wheel chair, he was shocked and his face said it all. “You were only here a…

End of the road…

Apr 27, 2025

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This isn’t me, I wasn’t laughing! I might have known I would end up here again… Turns out the excrutiating pain in my back and legs, is down to a seriously compressed nerve in my spine. I immediately thought the worst, that surgery was likely. But there is a drug that can slowly kill an…

I hate to say this, but I have done it again… #Pain

Mar 14, 2025

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I hate to say this, but I have done it again… I always seem to suffer after most of the jobs I do, especially the ones that push me to the limit of my strength and patience. I keep being told that I am 8o and not superwoman anymore, but it’s so hard to ignore…

Is a change as good as a rest?

Mar 8, 2025

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(those sticky out bits will be removed!) Is a change as good as a rest? I took a day off from my endeavours to create a better website yesterday. I probably needed a break, but not quite the one that arrived, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, right? Let me explain how this all came…

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