LOL - yes, we bang on about the weather all the time over here! I have to say, though, over the months Terry and I have been getting more and more off-piste and away from the weather in our correspondence - as we've got to know each other we are mostly now just making each other - and ourselves - laugh! 🤣
Those photos of your walk are too lovely, Rebecca! So lush and green...I’m envious over here in dusty Cairo :)
And I love that you and Terry are trying out letters to each other! I agree that diary and epistolary formats are some of the most fun to read--they create such a nice intimacy between the writer(s) and reader.
It was such a lovely day for a walk, Sam - really cold but beautifully green, as you say. This morning we woke up to a thick frost for the first time - winter's really setting in! Well, as much as it does in the south-east of the UK, anyway.
The only epistolary (you have no idea how many tries it took me to spell that right) novel I ever read was Dracula in school years ago. I started an Icelandic author’s book written as a long letter but never finished it :-( But letters or a diary would be such an intriguing and versatile way to tell a story! You’ve got me thinking...
I had to laugh when I saw the part about "you're their worst liability". Nice to see he rectified the situation later. I have to admit I didn't know what a gilet was. I had to look it up. It looks pretty cool, or should I say hot!
I agree with Terry that you should see about submitting your writing to either a magazine or see about entering some of these contests. You seem to always have the right words. And I mean big words, some that I have no idea about and have to go to the dictionary.
Goodness knows why - and how?! - they installed them so badly! Still, at least I can see the line of the road again when I’m getting home in the dark - these new ones are located in the run-up to the very dangerous spot of a busy blind bend right in the centre of the village.
I’ve just Googled cats’ eyes, and although there’s no info for Canada, I gather their US equivalents are ‘Stimsonite retroreflective raised pavement markers’! Not such a pretty name!
LOL - yes, we bang on about the weather all the time over here! I have to say, though, over the months Terry and I have been getting more and more off-piste and away from the weather in our correspondence - as we've got to know each other we are mostly now just making each other - and ourselves - laugh! 🤣
Another one of these letters! I'm going to have my post redirected.
Yeah, I would, Terry...! 😉
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Love the letter format! I would vote for Augustus and Gilead as two of my favorites in this genre
Thanks!
Those photos of your walk are too lovely, Rebecca! So lush and green...I’m envious over here in dusty Cairo :)
And I love that you and Terry are trying out letters to each other! I agree that diary and epistolary formats are some of the most fun to read--they create such a nice intimacy between the writer(s) and reader.
It was such a lovely day for a walk, Sam - really cold but beautifully green, as you say. This morning we woke up to a thick frost for the first time - winter's really setting in! Well, as much as it does in the south-east of the UK, anyway.
The only epistolary (you have no idea how many tries it took me to spell that right) novel I ever read was Dracula in school years ago. I started an Icelandic author’s book written as a long letter but never finished it :-( But letters or a diary would be such an intriguing and versatile way to tell a story! You’ve got me thinking...
Oooooh, I’m intrigued by your last line, Jacquie! Fab!
Beautiful photos! I’m quite enjoying this epistolary format!
Thanks, Jillian!
I had to laugh when I saw the part about "you're their worst liability". Nice to see he rectified the situation later. I have to admit I didn't know what a gilet was. I had to look it up. It looks pretty cool, or should I say hot!
I agree with Terry that you should see about submitting your writing to either a magazine or see about entering some of these contests. You seem to always have the right words. And I mean big words, some that I have no idea about and have to go to the dictionary.
Ah yes, a gilet is probably what you’d call a vest (whereas a vest is what you’d call a singlet!). And thanks, Matt - you’re very kind!
I'm liking this format. Really well done, the both of you! :)
Thanks, Mark!
What on Earth are those weird blocks in the pavement?! I think your city gives mine a run for its quality road works 😂 Lovely letter xx
Goodness knows why - and how?! - they installed them so badly! Still, at least I can see the line of the road again when I’m getting home in the dark - these new ones are located in the run-up to the very dangerous spot of a busy blind bend right in the centre of the village.
I’ve just Googled cats’ eyes, and although there’s no info for Canada, I gather their US equivalents are ‘Stimsonite retroreflective raised pavement markers’! Not such a pretty name!