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#Game of Sevens Has anyone else been tagged recently to take part in this?  #Game of Sevens is a fun promotional tool for writers and it works as follows. ’ Being tagged’ means being invited by a  writer colleague to take part. You have to choose one of your current manuscripts, select either page seven or page seventy-seven, and count down seven lines. Next, you post the next seven sentences (more or less) as an extract of your work-in-progress, online, in as many places as you can, for instance, on Facebook, or on your website or blog. Then tag 2 more writers and request they do the same. The idea is to stimulate interest in your work by giving a glimpse into what you’re working on at the moment. So, Sue Price and Catherine Czerkawska, would you like to be tagged? I'd love to see what you’re both working on! It was my friend, writer Theresa Tomlinson,  who tagged me to do this. Here's a link to her website, for anyone intereste...

Of Chairs and Books.. When I worked as a supply teacher, it was always a matter of concern as to where I should sit in the staffroom.  I knew that permanent staff usually had their own chairs, their places of safety where they could relax for a few minutes with some easy conversation, until the bell went and called them back to duty. How many times have I stood uncertainly hovering, until I was sure of a spare chair? It wasn’t deference or a sense of unworthiness that made me hesitate. Somehow I knew how important those chairs were to their occupants, a small home-from-home in the challenging world of school.   At home, I have my own precious armchair , my own ‘girl cave’ actually, because it’s much more than a chair. I think I could live there, you know, with only occasional sorties to the kitchen or the ‘facilities’ and the odd visit from friends. Maybe I will when I’m really old and doddery (even more doddery that is). I think some very old people do ‘live ‘ in...