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Robert Louis Stevenson
Culcitra puncta, counterpoynte, contrepointe, counterpane
I was thinking about bed covers yesterday, and an old word came back to me – not a word I ever used, or even my parents used, but one I remember from stories I read when I was little – counterpane. We called it a bedspread which is usually called a throw these days and […]
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Beginnings…
Endings are vital… satisfactory endings are compulsory but beginnings have to leap off the page and grab your reader. The words have to mesmerise them and pull them in under your spell. My favourite book: “The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood’s at all.” […]
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Lois Elsden 