WEDNESDAY 7TH MAY 2025 This photo is for fellow blogger Don Ostertag (with an explanation to follow). Preamble: It's been a year since our 7-week trip to the States, and I never finished blogging about it. Now I'm attempting to recapture that travel experience. By this point of the adventure, we'd arrived on 22nd April … Continue reading Discovering San Antonio: A Trolley Adventure
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His gilder-fluke broke on the flunker-flopper
At yesterday's monthly meeting of my writers' group I offered a few hundred words from the manuscript I am still slaving over. I had my heroine walking up the gangplank of a sailing ship in 1885. The problem with using that word is it conjures up pirates in the reader's imagination. Did I have it … Continue reading His gilder-fluke broke on the flunker-flopper
GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree 