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teresa wrote about the word scar 1 year, 5 months ago
Scar; can be a marking on your body or a cliif face in yorkshire. Cliff falce slashed into the land – is it a scar on the face/body of the land?
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teresa wrote about the word force 1 year, 8 months ago
force – of nature. that was what it felt like when she stood on top of the cliff and let the wind blast through her hair. she then remembered that you could finish up falling 0FF the cliff, if you didn’t stay away from the edge!!
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teresa wrote about the word elastic 1 year, 9 months ago
Elastic – useful word: concepts, fabric, freedom feeling, idea. Like the sound of it as well!
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teresa wrote about the word amuse 1 year, 9 months ago
To amuse; how/ what is funny to one person may upset or anger another. Humour is very personal, and interestingly, doesn’t cross national boundaries unless you know the language.
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teresa wrote about the word thunder 1 year, 9 months ago
thunder makes a great noise, and i like the lightning before. Rumble, rumble growling across the sky – shame it’s usually accompanied by rain!!
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teresa wrote about the word morals 1 year, 10 months ago
Morals: basic tenets seem to be common to all ethical creeds, but variable between socisal grouops in some small degree.
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teresa wrote about the word cells 1 year, 11 months ago
Cells; prison cells, biological cells. All containing something/body.What is the outcome for what is contained?
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teresa wrote about the word station 1 year, 11 months ago
Sitting in the station waiting for her usual train home, she wondered if anybody she knew would be on it; it made travelling so much more pleasant if you have company.
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teresa wrote about the word painted 1 year, 11 months ago
he painted a picture of his favourite view, but from the bottom of the cliffs, which if you’r doing it at Birling Gap, can be dodgy, when the tide comes in Next time, he decided, I’ll do it fro m the cliff top, oh , but then I’ll miss the flints embedded in the cliff. [...]
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teresa wrote about the word montage 1 year, 11 months ago
Montage; can be photos, images, suppose it could be words – wonder what you’d finish up with? would it be a poem or prose? and where could you go with it afterwards?
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teresa wrote about the word torch 1 year, 11 months ago
torches; wrote a prose poem about them once; like the idea of them : especially the ones they used to use: burning timber, all smoky and oily.
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teresa wrote about the word booth 1 year, 12 months ago
Phone booth, photobooth, Cherie Booth, toll booth. Many uses for this word. Toolbooth in Glasgowis part of its cultural history.
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teresa wrote about the word thief 1 year, 12 months ago
thief: define theft. Somebody said all property is theft: bet s/he’d never fought with a sibling for something precious to him/her!!
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teresa wrote about the word pretzel 1 year, 12 months ago
I can’t eat pretzels too much salt sadly, but I do think they’re a rather pretty shape and come in nice tones of brown: pity they crack so loudly.
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teresa wrote about the word mole 2 years ago
Mole: brings back memories of ‘Wind in the Willows’ – always one of my favourite books when I was younger. Probably time I reread it.
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teresa wrote about the word tempted 2 years ago
‘We’re all tempted ‘ he said,’but if you’re tempted and you really can’t afford the jewellery – just don’t buy it!’
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teresa wrote about the word forgotten 2 years ago
Forgotten: can be applied to anything, people, things. events. Always with a consequence which isn’t agreeable!
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teresa wrote about the word wasteland 2 years ago
Wasteland: conjure up a picture of post apocalyptic disaster after an explosion/ flood/ eruption.
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teresa wrote about the word bones 2 years ago
bones : there are boxes off them on a cupboard right near me. working in the Medical Library today we’ve even got a whole skeleton on a stand!
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teresa wrote about the word console 2 years ago
console: a difficult thing to do, since you know that if you’re trying to console somebody, someone who matters to that person has gone from his/her life. What do you say?
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