Jacquie
54 years old
Female
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Windhoek
Namibia
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is back from safari.she must get back to the grindstone !Information
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Are your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?Alain de Botton; Markus Zusak;Muriel Spark; Geoff Dyer; Rudyard Kipling; Joanne Harris; Barbara trepidoAnd your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Life of Pi The God of Small things A suitable boy Angela's Ashes The Wild Swans Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it The Book Thief Behind the scenes at the Museum How Proust can change your life The Poisonwood Bible A short HistoWhat are your working habits when you write?ProcastinatoryAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Ten times? Why so little?Your ultimate writing ambition?I want to write a really GOOD novel - a page turner that is funny, informative and life changing for readers ! I know that my life may not be long enough to achieve this but...Your worst habit?I assume you mean writing habit ...? I over edit before I am finished the whole shebang - bad bad bad - I constantly get lost - losing sight of the wood for the trees. I am very easily distracted by chocolate and my dogs.Your opinion on the books industry?Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get throughWhere do you write?In my sitting room , overlooking the African Veld with spendid views of the bush and periodic sightings of Zebra, Giraffe, gemsbok and Baboons...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 am an environmentalist, a dog lover and trainer and I adore painting. I have been married for 30 years to an amazing man. I have two children who have taught me just about everything I know.
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26th May 2009
The Shakespeare Insult Kit.For those days when we just have to be insulting!
Letting of steam without being too personal...
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by Tony 1 year agoGreetings Jacquie. I just happened to see your recent comment on 'Can Good Writing be Taught?. Don't see much of you around. I hope all is well with you. It was lovely meeting you, albeit so briefly, in York. -
by Caducean Whisks 2 years agoJacquie! Was it your birthday? Many happy returns m'dear! We haven't seen you lately - hope all is OK at Windy Corner? -
by Spangles 2 years agoHappy birthday, Jacquie! I hope you have a lovely birthday, whenever it is. Like Tony, I'm not sure because the Cloud isn't sure.
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by Tony 2 years agoJacquie! Have a bubblingly beautiful birthday. (Not sure if it's today or tomorow; it's past midnight, but I don't know if the Cloud know that ;-)
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by lizzie 2 years agoah good glad you are OK. My computer has been down for a few days...bloddy nuisance! -
by CyprusRachael 2 years agoJacquie, thanks so much for yur concern... Just busy yesterday, adn again today. Yesterday was the memorial for Danny at teh school. His classmates were amazing -- so brave! I could never get up and speak as they did: very simply and eloquently about how they cared for their friend... There were about 10-12 parents there, also.
Many unanswered questions about the accident -- it may have been a hit and run as the boy who survived has a memory of a 'lady with shade' and someone removed helmets before the lorry driver who eventually helped them came on the scene (it was a quiet country road). Believe it or not, ambulances here do not carry paramedics, and I'm not sure about the drivers' report, though apparently Danny was still alive in the ambulance and died later... So whoever DIDn'T call for help in the first place, and left the scene, may well have been responsible for his death. Very upsetting. I'm not sure how much his parents know, I have this from the mother of the other boy... Anyway. We're fine. Thanks again for asking :). This has shaken my kids, but I hope that they will learn something from it.
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by Nibs 2 years agoHi J
help me out to speed my search can you please hun, where's this write up you've mentioned for me to look at that you think I'd be interested in due to my therapy training?
hope you're ok,
:o)
Nibs
