Hellooooo, anyone still there? I'm sorry that I have been quiet so long. Sometimes the busyness of life causes us to have to re-evaluate what is essential in our list of daily tasks and sadly the blogging has been very near to the bottom of the list. I have tried to keep my Mrs Craftypants site going as this is turning into quite a busy little business but writing for pleasure, that was no longer a pleasure.
Something or rather somethings have got my writing fingers itching again. Firstly I was asked to be a administrator on a facebook page that my lovely friend Katharine runs ........ for writers! Secondly the death of the music star Prince, just 10 years older than myself. The significance of this making my writing fingers itch is the sudden realisation that i have a lot of stories inside me and if I don't tell them they will disappear for ever!
The book that longs to come out is one I promised my late mum that I would write a very long time ago. She had a very interesting and somewhat harrowing start in life as a war baby, born to a German mother in Hamburg, Germany who had a brief affair with an English soldier at the end of the second world war. I have managed to find a few stories of American soldiers and French soldiers fathering babies with German mothers, however trying to even find statistics for the English fathers is near impossible. The UK government unlike the American government did not intervene with policies to help German mothers, for example giving them a right to become alien citizens.
So the story must be told and I think the best way to get myself back in the writing habit is to have a go at doing a blog at least once a week! That is my goal for now and hopefully I can use my time wisely enough to try and commit to at least 10 minutes every day to research and write. Just 10 minutes, that is all I have at the moment, it's so easy to flitter way 10 minutes on nothing, so at least now I will have something to show for those particular 10 minutes!
So, same time, same place next week, bye for now xxxx
Your Mother's story sounds so interesting, am looking forward to reading about it, I have a friend whose German Mother lived in England before the war, married an Englishman and she became even more English than the English. Hope that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteMy mum was so ashamed of her heritage I didn't find out the truth until I was 18!
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ReplyDeleteGood to 'see' you again. I like the sound of your weekly blog. Your family history sounds interesting. Good luck with the project.
Thank you Ray, how are you keeping?
DeletePretty well thanks Jane
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