I think window shopping counts as found items, don’t you? When I work in town once a month, I sometimes have a little time spare on the route back through to school pick up. It was mild today. Mild enough to decide to get off the bus early, walk a bit, then get on another …
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6 Oct: invent your perfect ice cream flavour
Decisions, decisions. Is it one flavour, or a multiple that taste particularly good together? Does it need to be like something familiar or can it be un-ice cream like (ie something you wouldn’t normally associate with cold and creamy tastes)? Part of me is tempted to say that the perfect ice cream has already been …
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5 October: the perfect dinner party
I am on the phone to the imaginary agent of Stephen Fry. The agent is sorry, but the imaginary Stephen is booked solid for several months. As a popular person to invite to imaginary perfect dinner parties, I need to understand it is hard for him to make time to come. I try the imaginary …
31 days: S is for soya chunks
There are found items – and then there are found items. I guess it depends on how much hunting you put in to find them – and how much you are surprised by what you find. I have a very small kitchen. I like it a lot – you can stir something on one work surface …
2 Oct: Today
Here’s the prompt for the extra writing group I mentioned. 5 minutes on ‘today’: Today is the middle of the week. Wednesday is often a good mood day for me – made it this far in the week. Today was grey all day, however. ALL day. With that looming, hovering greyness that promises rain but …