Spangles

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.
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  • Are you a ...?
    Published author
    What genre do you primarily write in?
    Other non-fiction
    If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
    Romantic fiction, chicklit, etc
    Are your reading habits ...?
    Omnivorous
    Who is your favourite author(s)?
    One favourite is E M Forster. Two others are PG Wodehouse and Bill Bryson
    And 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 Austen
    What are your working habits when you write?
    Disciplined
    Are you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?
    Prefer to let rip and edit afterwards
    Your ultimate writing ambition?
    To see my name at the top of the best-seller lists
    Your worst habit?
    Procrastination
    Your opinion on the books industry?
    Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
    Where do you write?
    In a tiny office that's crammed with books
    What 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
    "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 ...
    23 mins ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles I was going to write something of great importance but now I can't remember what the hell it was.
    15 hours ago
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    • Jill
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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'.
      14 hours ago
    • Caducean Whisks
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      Caducean Whisks 'I leave all my worldly goods to Whisks, I leave all my worldly goods to Whisks, I leave ...'
      15 hours ago
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      Caducean Whisks Don't forget to get it witnessed.
      15 hours ago
    • Jill
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      Jill Don't I just know that feeling! Have a great weekend....JX
      14 hours ago
    • Tony
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      Tony Hope it wasn't trying to write me a poem that out it out of your mind.
      14 hours ago
    • Barb
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      Barb Something to do with bread, eggs, milk, flour, chocolate biscuits...
      14 hours ago
    • Jill
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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'.
      14 hours ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles commented on Maryluv's wall:
    Happy birthday, Maryluv!
    17 hours ago
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    Spangles
    "Spangles" commented on AlanP's Blog "I should probably be ashamed".
    That's brilliant, Alan!
    1 day ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles I keep hitting the wrong keys when I'm typing and the results look like cod Celtic or Scandinavian. Ut kiijs kuje thus
    1 day ago
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    • Elysia
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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...
      1 day ago
    • Caducean Whisks
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      Caducean Whisks Cod Celtic? That a word then? Sounds fishy to me.
      1 day ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles You have to conjure up a spirit of plaice to appreciate it fully, I find.
      1 day ago
    • Stormbride
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      Stormbride I know those days all to well, Spangles. Somedays my fingers seem to be possessed by another spirit than mine. ;)
      1 day ago
    • Caducean Whisks
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      Caducean Whisks Find the sole of the piece?
      1 day ago
    • Elysia
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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...
      1 day ago
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    Jill
    Jill commented on Spangles's wall:
    Since 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!
    1 day ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles Today is Candlemas and a couple of centuries ago it was the day when we all took down our Christmas decorations
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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!
      1 day ago
    • Jill
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      Jill I expect that is in 'Red Sky'? I will resist putting ours up again, in order to take them down on Candlemas!
      1 day ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles I don't think it is, actually, but it will be in my new book, which is all about Christmas. Quite appropriate, given the current temperatures!
      1 day ago
    • Jill
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      Jill Look forward to the Christmas book - out in time for Christmas 2012? Agree about the temperatures. My poor dwarf mountain pine that I planted out the other day, when it was a mild afternoon is probably wishing I hadn't. It is only a baby at the moment.
      1 day ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles Poor little pine! The tulip leaves that have appeared in our garden are also probably regretting their early appearance. Yes, the Christmas book will be out in October.
      1 day ago
    • Jill
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      Jill Goody, goody gumdrops! Will seek it out. :)
      1 day ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles Thank you! xx
      1 day ago
    • John Taylor
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      John Taylor In our church, the tree stays up until today, the end of the Christmas season. Looking forward to the book, Spangles: the only book I have of Christmas traditions is ancient and American.
      1 day ago
    • Stormbride
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      Stormbride In germany we keep our day until january, 6th. The day of the 3 holy kings. ;)
      1 day ago
    • Stormbride
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      Stormbride sorry ... typo ... meant to say "keep our tree" ... lol, need coffee.
      1 day ago
    • Squidge
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      Squidge Do Christmas flowers count? The carnations went into church for the candlelight service on the 18th Dec, and are only coming out today
      1 day ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles That's fascinating, John and Squidge. I had read that keeping the decorations in church until Candlemas was definitely an old tradition, not a contemporary one. So now I can correct that in my copy.
      1 day ago
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      Spangles Stormbride, we generally keep our decorations up in the UK until 6 January, although it should really be 5 January.
      1 day ago
    • John Taylor
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      John Taylor Yes, Spangles: at home, we do the same as you. Keeping the tree and Advent candles up was new to me when I came to this church. When I lived in Scotland, we did celebrate Candlemas, though.
      1 day ago
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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!
      1 day ago
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    Spangles
    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
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    Spangles
    Spangles commented on Babblefish's wall:
    Happy birthday, Babblefish! I hope you're having a wonderful day.
    2 days ago
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    Spangles
    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
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    • Spangles
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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
      3 days ago
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      Deli As long as you don't eat the whole pack, it's ok!
      3 days ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles Phew, that's all right then! I managed to stop at two. Biscuits, that is, not packets.
      3 days ago
    • Deli
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      Deli Ha ha. You can have another two tomorrow - biscuits, not packets. Lucky they don't sell Tim Tams over here. You can never stop till the packet is gone, followed by much guilt.
      3 days ago
    • Suze
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      Suze If they are foxes Chunkies, resistance is useless. But, erm, what happened to that Saturn self-discipline?
      3 days ago
    • Spangles
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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
      3 days ago
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    Spangles
    "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 ...
    4 days ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles Our tiny village post office/shop was ram-raided early on Saturday morning, all for a few packs of cigarettes, apparently
    4 days ago
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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!
      3 days ago
    • Gerry
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      Gerry Bloody rams! When did they start smoking?
      4 days ago
    • Jill
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      Jill Is that the one where you go to post off your manuscripts?
      4 days ago
    • Liss
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      Liss That's awful! Near to us, people used a digger to remove a whole cash machine and ram raided the Co Op. Not good!
      4 days ago
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      Liss *Not the same people at the same time, I hasten to add.
      4 days ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles Gerry, the rams are a tough lot round here. They have to be, when they're shoved horns first through a door. Yes, Jill, it's where I send off my novels. (My non-fiction goes by email these days, thank God.) Liss, I suppose doing both things at once would have been quite a clever use of resources. The silly thing about our post office is that the raiders used a metal pole to smash through the door, which has a metal grille over it, when they could easily have smashed the defenceless plate glass window next to it.
      4 days ago
    • Jill
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      Jill Mindless, senseless, sad.... Years ago our post office/shop was targetted. Now we only have an itinerant post office person, who comes to the village all two afternoons a week. Hope he continues the service and tha snail-mail does not cease to exist.t
      4 days ago
    • Jill
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      Jill *hall*!
      4 days ago
    • Spangles
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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!
      3 days ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles commented on MinxieAD's wall:
    A very happy birthday, Minxie!
    5 days ago
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    Spangles
    "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 ...
    5 days ago
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    Spangles
    "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 ...
    6 days ago

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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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  • Jill
    by Jill 1 day ago
    Since 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!
  • Jill
    by Jill 12 days ago
    PS: Trusting fully that huge bolt of light writing inspiration is going to occur.
  • Jill
    by Jill 12 days ago
    Tee hee! Enjoy walk. I am going out for 3rd time into garden and may be some time.... Jx
  • Jill
    by Jill 12 days ago
    So 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.

    BTW, when I buried Mapp this morning, there was a wee fluffy white feather lying nearby....
  • Jill
    by Jill 12 days ago
    Hi! 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.

    Hope the choccy cake went down well! Jx
  • Gerilyn
    by Gerilyn 13 days ago
    Thank 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.
  • Jill
    by Jill 13 days ago
    Yes, 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
  • Jill
    by Jill 13 days ago
    Apologies - my reply to you is on my own wall - silly Jilly!
  • Jill
    by Jill 14 days ago
    Very good morning to our Cloudy Baker of All Time! It sounds as though the course did you the world and universe of good. :) Jx
  • Suze
    by Suze 14 days ago
    Yep, 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.