Curious-Authentic Ink

The Artist’s Date

Post author:Eryl
Post published:14/09/2021
Post category:Writer's Life Writing
Post comments:5 Comments

Like everyone, Covid has affected my life in a zillion random ways. While I've had the very good fortune not to get sick, I'm somewhat weighted by certain repercussions. No…

The Hawks Nib

It’s a Butey!

Post author:Eryl
Post published:21/07/2021
Post category:Exploring Travel Writer's Life
Post comments:8 Comments

Tuesday 20 JulyI sit at the window of a kitchen that is mine for the week, like a cat safe in the knowledge its curiosity won't kill it here. On…

A Quickie

Post author:Eryl
Post published:07/06/2021
Post category:Ageing Exploring Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

Where has the time since my last post gone? I wonder if now I'm that old time moves in odd ways; or, rather, the way I experience time has changed?…

Stinging Sixties

Post author:Eryl
Post published:15/04/2021
Post category:Ageing Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

Thanks to my parents not being able to keep their hands off each other for, preferably, another twenty years, a week ago I became sixty. I've known it was going…

Early Spring Walk

Lockdown, One Year On.

Post author:Eryl
Post published:26/03/2021
Post category:Lockdown Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

Tuesday was the anniversary of lockdown, here, and I meant to write this post then. But I had my first jag on Monday and looking at the computer screen gave…

Bloody Marvellous!

Post author:Eryl
Post published:07/03/2021
Post category:Lockdown
Post comments:1 Comment

https://youtu.be/sJmc78h3EFsSunday Music* I've been a fan of Erik Satie ever since I read that he always wore one of (I think it was) fourteen (but feel free to put me…

Apple Lane

The Dig

Post author:Eryl
Post published:05/03/2021
Post category:Allotment Writer's Life
Post comments:3 Comments

Me, digging – pulling silly faces for the camera is easier than trying to look not-hideous these days. Saturday 27 February 2021The rain has abated and, although you wouldn't call…

Embracing the Strange

Post author:Eryl
Post published:20/02/2021
Post category:Lockdown Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

It struck me, as I lambasted myself for having watched three You Tubes in a row on how to get the most out of Big Sur, that instead of fighting…

In the Liminal

Post author:Eryl
Post published:14/02/2021
Post category:Weekend Post Writer's Life
Post comments:6 Comments

Lost in the In-Between I seem to have fallen between the cracks again. The cracks in democracy – I knew the Republicans wouldn't have the guts, but all the same,…

Cook Your Own Stories

Post author:Eryl
Post published:31/01/2021
Post category:How Fiction Works Literature Ambassador Writer Opps Writing
Post comments:6 Comments

Literary Diet, the final dayTomorrow it won't be January any more, which feels rather abrupt. But there are still a few hours left of the month in which The Guardian…