Spangles

Spangles

55 years old
Female
Location
Rye
United Kingdom
Current Status
Sorry I haven't been around recently. Too much other stuff going on. How are we all?
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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 Jill's Blog "Trains of Thought".
    What a lovely blog, Jill. So evocative and thought-provoking. We went on three different vintage steam railways last year and loved all of them. Your grandson does sound like a sweetie pie!
    13 days ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles Sorry I haven't been around recently. Too much other stuff going on. How are we all?
    13 days ago
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    • Spangles
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      Spangles Thank you, Jill! And exactly the same applies to you! (Except for being Spangly, of course, which might not appeal!)
      12 days ago
    • Jill
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      Jill Spangles! How good to see you again on Cloud. Was only thinking about you the other day and wondering how everything is going. :)
      13 days ago
    • Spangles
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      Spangles Hallo Jill! Thanks for the welcome back. I hope you're well.
      13 days ago
    • Jill
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      Jill More or less well, thanks. Developed a heavy cold last weekend, which is proving hard to shift. However, off to sun and blue skies soon, so that should finally see the back of it! :)
      13 days ago
    • Squidge
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      Squidge Good, thanks Spangles...ticking over nicely.
      13 days ago
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      Spangles Sorry to hear about your cold, Jill. I am also recovering from a heavy cold, so can sympathise. I hope the sun and blue skies act as the best doctors in the world. Glad to hear that all is going well, Squidge.
      13 days ago
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      Jill Well, I'm actually hoping that it is clear by the time we fly off to sunny climes, as that isn't for about a couple of weeks. Glad to hear that you are recovering from your own cold - perhaps certain remedies are helping?!
      13 days ago
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      Spangles Actuallly, I think it was triggered by a remedy! So I let it all come out and avoided taking any more remedies for the time being. My homeopath prescribed what he called a 'constitutional spring clean' and it really has had an extraordinary effect! So I hope I'll be bright and shiny after this. :)
      13 days ago
    • Jill
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      Jill There is a saying - 'All the bad coming out' - but I would not dream of applying that to such a lovely lady as yourself! I'm sure you will be bright, shiny and truly Spangly soon.... :)
      13 days ago
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      Spangles Thank you, Jill! And exactly the same applies to you! (Except for being Spangly, of course, which might not appeal!)
      12 days ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles commented on Caducean Whisks's wall:
    Happy birthday, Whisks! I hope you're having a wonderful day. xx
    13 days ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles must go out into the cold, cold snow…
    2 months ago
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      Barb Have you been sent out to pick strawberries?
      2 months ago
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    Spangles
    Spangles is off to explore some haunted woods. Eek!
    2 months ago
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    • MinxieAD
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      MinxieAD I think that when you're a spiritual person you are open to things, so you probably did pick up on something! It's always best to keep an open mind and I kinow that you always do! My son used to hate cutting down the bank on the way to my mum's house. He'd always want to walk around the long way, which is pretty unusual for a boy from when he could walk until he was around 10! It turns out there was a cider house where the green bank now is and they used to hang people there! I'm sure he picked up on it...
      2 months ago
    • MinxieAD
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      MinxieAD This sounds right up my street! Don't get lost in them, Spangles... x
      2 months ago
    • Amarantha
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      Amarantha Mine too! Wish I was there.
      2 months ago
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      Spangles Thanks, Mixie and Ama. They were beautiful and didn't strike me as being haunted. Haunting possibly, especially as they back on to a disused mental hospital. But they are beautiful, even if we did all end up covered in mud!
      2 months ago
    • MinxieAD
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      MinxieAD I love that about a day out in the woods, Spangles. Coming home covered in mud and bit chilled and sitting in front of a fire with a hot drink! Nothing quite like it. I wonder if the woods you visited are more scary at night? Glad you got back safely though x
      2 months ago
    • Amarantha
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      Amarantha Everything Minxie said. I love woodland at night but there has to be a moon to make them magical; snow moreso
      2 months ago
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      Spangles When I lived in London I used to walk through some local woods to get to the Tube each morning. They seemed ordinary enough, although there were times when odd things happened - hearing music when no one was around, for instance. But then one night, when it was snowing and the moon was out (just as Ama says), everyone in our flat went for a midnight stroll through the woods. My flatmates didn't notice any difference in the woods, but I did - I felt there was a brooding and malevolent atmosphere. I discovered, some time later, that the woods were regularly used for black magic rituals (and a neighbour showed me the evidence), so I wonder if that's what I had picked up on, even though I knew nothing about it at the time.
      2 months ago
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      Amarantha Vibrations! Good and bad they do exist don't they?
      2 months ago
    • MinxieAD
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      MinxieAD I think that when you're a spiritual person you are open to things, so you probably did pick up on something! It's always best to keep an open mind and I kinow that you always do! My son used to hate cutting down the bank on the way to my mum's house. He'd always want to walk around the long way, which is pretty unusual for a boy from when he could walk until he was around 10! It turns out there was a cider house where the green bank now is and they used to hang people there! I'm sure he picked up on it...
      2 months 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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  • Liss
    by Liss 9 months ago
    Hey S, it's Red Sky at Night :)
  • Liss
    by Liss 9 months ago
    Thanks, Spangles! That's very thoughtful of you :) Btw we sell your book in our visitor's center and I've had a flick through - good stuff!

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  • Jill
    by Jill 1 year ago
    Good morning Spangles! Trust you are well. How is progress on the Christmas book? Thanks for the welcome back - just going to type up a blog and post about experiences on holiday. Speak soon. Jx:)
  • Jill
    by Jill 1 year ago
    Out for the day? Have a lovely one, whether it is work or play! Think I am going to have the house to myself for a few hours today - maybe will get more writing done! :)x
  • Jill
    by Jill 1 year ago
    Thank you, Spangles - there is no rush. JX
  • Jill
    by Jill 1 year ago
    No worry, no hurry about message reply! I also get long delays for receipt of messages sometimes. Isn't it a beautiful day? Nippy at the moment, but lovely to see the sunshine here again. It's been so grey since Friday! :)
  • Jill
    by Jill 1 year ago
    Thank you, Spangles for the anni. wishes. It is misty again and so we may postpone a trip to the coast, which is quite a drive away and go instead to Ely and Wicken Fen close by. Equally good and watery! Have a lovely day too. :)
  • Jill
    by Jill 1 year ago
    Sunshine and also a good day in other ways for you? Sounds exciting. I'm having treatment with my acupuncturist early this evening - at last! - and so I think mine is going to be a continuing good day. Also, I have booked to attend a dowsing workshop with a healer in April, so am looking forward to that enormously. A friend has been to one with her and benefitted enormously in many ways. JX
  • Jill
    by Jill 1 year ago
    Good morning, Spangles - promising to be a lovely day here. Hope same with you. Have a wonderful St David's Day.

    (Thank you for comment on my photo - new beginnings yet again for me, I decided, and solo photo close up is my statement affirming that fact!). JX :)
  • SecretSpi
    by SecretSpi 1 year ago
    I can definitely recommend Peter Ashley's books - he's a photographer and illustrator with an eye for England as you remember it from Ladybird and Observer's Books!
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