This week’s photo prompt is ‘lost in the details’, so here’s a close up of some details in one of my notebooks. I have been working on this story since last summer and tweaked the first few chapters (including the paragraphs in the photo) approximately a bajillion times – because I get lost in the details every time I re-read it. That’s right, this picture is some sort of amazing two for one – aren’t you pleased you came? Course you are. Now go look at the other entries.
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I found it hard to come up with something for this week’s prompt – hence the lateness (it’s technically last week’s prompt at this point). The prompt, as you may have gathered from the title of the post, was home. I’ll stop saying prompt now.
I mused on this for a while, looking at other people’s submissions (houses, family, pets) and felt thoroughly uninspired. Then my other half put on a CD, and a thought occurred. Home is somewhere familiar and comforting – somewhere my brain recognises as safe. I feel this in a number of places, but I can actually create that sense of well being artificially wherever I am – through the power of love music. Certain songs make me feel at ease, because I associate them with places I feel at home.
And that’s why I photographed a bunch of CDs that have travelled with me from home with my parents to university and three different flats in Edinburgh. Why on the radiator? Just because.
And the best thing about this is, now we can play the super fun game of name all those CDs!
Or not.
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Yesterday there was an article about Horrible Histories author Terry Deary on the Guardian books page, in which he was quoted as saying that libraries are effectively past it. I disagree with that view, and wanted to address some of his points. You can read the article here if you haven’t seen it yet. His original comments are in the Sunderland Echo.
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