Places by Lois

Ducks on the rhyne

A rhyne (pronounced ‘reen’) in Somerset is a ditch, or water course which has been dug as a drainage channel, and you find them all across the south-west of England and south Wales. I’d never come across the word until we moved to the west country in the 1960’s,even though we came from a similar […]

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Writing by Lois

Creative writing group this afternoon

Today with my group we are going to talk about observation, and how it can lead to inspiration and then to creation… well, some creativity! Here are eight little examples of observation, and I’m going to ask my group to deliberate on one of them, and then imagine how they might use it to suggest […]

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