I’m off travelling again for the next ten days,
from the North East to the South West, an area visited only a handful of times,
and not for ten years. Since a second television series has just begun I
anticipate seeing references to ‘Poldark country’. I re-read the first five of Winston
Graham’s wonderful novel last year and found them just as enjoyable as when
reading them in my teens. Couldn’t bear to watch the tv series as the
characters are already so vivid in my head. As, of course, are the characters
created here, week on week; I firmly believe it is more enjoyable to be able to
exercise my own imagination, fired only by your words.
Yet, for me this week, the stand-out piece was Patricia’s haunting ‘Tempus Fugit’.
Poignant and thought-provoking, it struck many chords, not least of which was
awe at fabricating in from the prompts on offer.
Words for next week: fancy
taunt visit
Entries by midnight Thursday
29th September, new words posted on Friday 30th
but
I’ll ask each of you to nominate your personal winner because I’ll be staying
with family in circumstances which might not allow time to do my usual summary.
