World Book Day

What better way
To spend World Book Day
Than having my way
On this wonderful day?

Won't you take a look?
Go to your favorite nook,
Get lost in your book,
Today all else forsook.

Or take out your favorite pen,
Smooth the page and then,
Wait and count to ten
Say a prayer, Amen.

Great intentions
Great expectations
Great beginnings
Great endings

Off now to indulge in Writers News, April edition and treat myself to some quality time with Alexander McCall Smith!

Happy World Book Day!

Coney Writers at Loughshore Park

Lovely to see everyone again on Saturday as Coney Writers continue their tour. We walked down to Loughshore Park and spent about 30 minutes observing and writing and then had a coffee in the cafe and listened to each others writing. Planning to meet again next month for some people watching - great for character and dialogue development.

Bliss

The March edition of Writers News, a mug of hot chocolate and a box of Marks and Spencer's cherry liqueurs......bliss!

Writing in Botanic Gardens

Lovely to see everyone  from our writing group yesterday on a cold but bright, frosty morning at the Ulster Museum and Belfast's Botanic Gardens.

 

And what an inspiring backdrop! It was good fun to try something new, being at one with nature to gather ideas for writing and to realise the importance of researching thoroughly when thinking of the setting.
 

And how fortunate that we were at the Palm House to see a most unusual plant - the Voodoo Arum which has never flowered in Belfast before and only flowers for 48 hours.

Such vibrant colours, delicate perfumes, exotic plants, differing temperatures and atmospheres, sounds, our senses were battered in a short space of time.

Lovely to see this poem by an old friend, Lindsay, hanging in the Palm House. We paused to read it.

There has to be time to stop and stare and soak everything in and to find inspiration throughout the palm houses.

Lovely coffee and cakes in the museum cafe followed by more coffee in the university library cafe. Looking forward to seeing what develops from the ideas we gathered and to seeing everyone again next month.

It is a truth universally acknowledged....,,

Happy 200th Birthday Pride and Prejudice! What a wonderful start to one of the greatest novels ever written. We owe so much to Jane Austen, a woman ahead of her time.

Reading

Books I'm currently reading:
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes and
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
So far I'm loving both of them

Back at Coney Island

Great to be back down at Coney Island with fellow writers yesterday. Good to see Maddie, Rhonda, Fionnuala, Yvonne and Charlie and to be inspired once again to get back to our writing after the Christmas break. The writing exercises were just what we needed to kick start our brains.