Spangles
54 years old
Female
Location
Rye
United Kingdom
Current Status
I was going to write something of great importance but now I can't remember what the hell it was.Information
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Are you a ...?Published authorWhat genre do you primarily write in?Other non-fictionIf you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?Romantic fiction, chicklit, etcAre your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?One favourite is E M Forster. Two others are PG Wodehouse and Bill BrysonAnd your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford Lucia in London, E F Benson To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee Rivals, Jilly Cooper A Passage to India, E M Forster Pride and Prejudice, Jane AustenWhat are your working habits when you write?DisciplinedAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Prefer to let rip and edit afterwardsYour ultimate writing ambition?To see my name at the top of the best-seller listsYour worst habit?ProcrastinationYour opinion on the books industry?Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get throughWhere do you write?In a tiny office that's crammed with booksWhat else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?I have two cats and a husband, and live in a rural corner of East Sussex. I bake a lot of bread, especially when I'm meant to be working.
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"Spangles" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".Skylark, I'm so sorry to read your disappointing news. I can imagine how you feel, having experienced several similar things myself. It is heartbreaking and it's difficult to see past that at first. But you clearly can already see past that a little ...
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Spangles I was going to write something of great importance but now I can't remember what the hell it was.15 hours ago- View all 6 Comments
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Jill Oh! I have just remembered for you ~ Spangles has been working hard and deserves a treat and so do we all'.
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"Spangles" commented on AlanP's Blog "I should probably be ashamed".That's brilliant, Alan!
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Spangles I keep hitting the wrong keys when I'm typing and the results look like cod Celtic or Scandinavian. Ut kiijs kuje thus1 day ago- View all 5 Comments
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Elysia My keys stick, and so everything I write lacks s and s. See? JJJ!!! BBBB!! I have to hit them really hard to make them work...
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Spangles Today is Candlemas and a couple of centuries ago it was the day when we all took down our Christmas decorations1 day ago- View all 14 Comments
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Squidge Don't know whether it's part of a tradition...just that our little church is so cold, the flowers last for ages so we make the most of them! Probably a complete coincidence!
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Spangles This OED quiz on Dickens is good fun and you can convince yourself that it's educational too http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/dickens-or-what-the-dickens/2 days ago -
Spangles commented on Babblefish's wall:Happy birthday, Babblefish! I hope you're having a wonderful day.
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Spangles I do not want a chocolate biscuit. I do not want a chocolate biscuit. I do not want a chocolate biscuit. Sod it, I want a chocolate biscuit!3 days ago- View all 5 Comments
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Spangles My Saturn self-discipline went wonky over Christmas and hasn't functioned properly since then. So it's at the menders, being renovated
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"Spangles" commented on Steve's Blog "Back in Our Day, Health Cost Nowt".'A starved brain doesn't work too well.' Ama, you are so right. What always baffles me is that a motorist wouldn't expect their car to run on diesel if it's supposed to have petrol, yet people believe they can function on a breakfast of Coke and a ...
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Spangles Our tiny village post office/shop was ram-raided early on Saturday morning, all for a few packs of cigarettes, apparently4 days ago- View all 8 Comments
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Spangles What a shame. Our post office/shop is owned by the village, so I hope it will continue to flourish. It sells the most fabulous cheese!
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"Spangles" commented on Steve's Blog "Back in Our Day, Health Cost Nowt".Steve, I agree that companies often seem to increase the price of a product purely on the grounds that it is supposed to be healthy, whether or not it really is. Just as shampoos and other toiletries can cost more when they have words like 'contains ...
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"Spangles" commented on Steve's Blog "Back in Our Day, Health Cost Nowt".I'm in the middle of cooking our (hopefully healthy!) supper so can't linger for long. But on the subject of those packets of dry, unprocessed beans costing possibly over £1, as opposed to the cheapest brand of baked beans selling for 20p, actually ...
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About
I sometimes ask myself what I'd do if I didn't earn my living from writing and editing books, and I have yet to find a satisfactory answer. So I'm very grateful to be a published author. So far, it's my non-fiction that's been published but I've set myself the goal of getting a publishing contract for my fiction too. You'll find my website here: www.janestruthers.com
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21st October 2011
What the Dickens?
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6th October 2011
Surely not?
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4th October 2011
Now Showing…
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20th July 2011
Americana
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14th July 2011
Get your spelling wrong and lose money
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by Jill 1 day agoSince I posted my wee rant, site performance has improved! Touch wood, it will stay that way for the rest of the day - for the sake of us all!
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by Jill 12 days agoPS: Trusting fully that huge bolt of light writing inspiration is going to occur.
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by Jill 12 days agoTee hee! Enjoy walk. I am going out for 3rd time into garden and may be some time.... Jx
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by Jill 12 days agoSo much synchronosity going on between us. For instance - the renouncing of choccy by Mr S and your huge choccy cake, while Mr J is going in for all this cooking now, just as I am determined to lose weight!
Yes, it would be great to meet up and I will make a note of the dates you mention. Spring or early Summer would be a good time, methinks.
Yes, RIP Mapp, but I giggled at your comment on the parallels in the book. Guess Mapp served her purpose in the fish tank and is now in fishy heaven. I did have an outdoor beautiful fish I named Lucia (ok she is a character in my opus). She did not survive more than a couple of days. Think indoor Lucia is made of sterner stuff and bodes well for '12.
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by Jill 12 days agoHi! No, I did not know that about Benson. Going to have to visit Lamb House/Mallards and hope to see you there. Will message when we next visit sister in Kent and try to coordinate times.
Mr J, 'Master J' and J also loved the radio Mapp and Lucia. In fact, I had named my favourite fish Lucia (still going swimmingly well) and it was 'Daddy Master J' (at Christmas) who suggested calling the other new one. Mapp. Anyhow Mapp is now nourishing a dear little pine tree, which I have just transferred from her pot.
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by Gerilyn 13 days agoThank you for the wall post, Spangles. I rang Sky in the end and found out that the 'password' was indeed on the router! Only it's called a 'network key'. Why they don't just ask for a 'network key' and make life simpler is beyond me.
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by Jill 13 days agoYes, it was rather worrying - anything like that to do with eyes is, of course. There is no 'cure' they say - an age related problem and he/his brain will have to adapt. He has a check up in 3 months and a number to ring should the problem get worse. There is always some relief in knowing exactly what one is contending with.
Anyhow, I am off to treat myself to a wallow in an aromatherapy bath before I do any more work today! I am sure you and Mr S are going to have a wonderful day, once you are reuinited!! Jx -
by Jill 14 days agoVery good morning to our Cloudy Baker of All Time! It sounds as though the course did you the world and universe of good. :) Jx
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by Suze 14 days agoYep, we could have an astrologer's corner! Have you ever read the Joan Hodgson book - Astrology the Sacred Science? It looks at the spiritual dimension of all the signs. I can recommend it.
So your fellow bread-makers gave you their birth dates. Were they all sun-Taureans by any chance? Glad to hear that your spirits rose along with the bread dough. Sounds a lot of fun.




























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