Chapter 80 of #MomentsOfCalm is called Sargent Skidmore. He is based on someone I met a few times both in the field and police station and, yes, I do feel I’ve captured him! #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

Eulogy and concert pieces written and read. Dorset COP is all but done. Looking forward to diving back into the editing and further writing of #MomentsOfCalm

#Thursday #Shaftesbury #Dorset Wanna know what this #OrchardTown thing is all about?

Come along. All welcome. I’ve written a four minute introduction especially :) #Dorset #Shaftesbury #Community #Choir #CommunityChoir #singing #song #poetry #poem #apple #fruit #orchard #CommunityOrchard

I'll be promulgating & celebrating #Shaftesbury #Orchard #Town at #Dorset COP on Nov 1. Thanks for your positive energy @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Gonna be in good company dorsetcop.info/chris-packha...

Very happy with the 375-word Introduction I’ve written for this event. Do join us if you can. Karen Wimhurst and her amazing choirs are epic! #Shaftesbury #Dorset #apple #OrchardTown #choir #concert #October #autumn #communitychoir #singing #amwriting #writer

#apple #appleday #orchard #October #Shaftesbury #Dorset Please share folks 🍏🍎🍐

In #MomentsOfCalm things aren’t always as they seem… #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip #huntsab

Last of the #marrow. Omg, what a season! Nom-chuffing-nom 😋😋

In #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 73, the morning after a wild night in the pub there’s a treat in store for our MC…. #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

#MomentsOfCalm: Ginge & Bob have aborted field operations. They’re in the Women’s Wholefood Collective having breakfast when our MC spies a #HuntSab benefit gig poster…. #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

"Have we got five minutes?" #Wednesday

#apple #pear #orchard #orchardtown #fruit #growyourown #homegrown #Shaftesbury #Dorset www.shaftesbury-tc.gov.uk/harvesting-a...

A concert in the River Stour at Fiddleford this Sunday #Dorset #river

#Autumn manifests in aa #orchard #hedge this #morning as a Comma #butterfly on blackberries

Nature's bounty #homegrown #autumn #equinox

Gone right back to the opening gambit and first chapter from #MomentsOfCalm and still making changes I consider to be improvements 😊 #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

In #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 68 there’s a shift of thinking… #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

In #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 66, Ginge takes a train to Bish & Mouse’s before an early start. He’s got a special bond with one of their #dogs. #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

A night in The Under-Hedge Hotel is good character building! #MomentsOfCalm #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

The others have gone on. It’s been a long, hectic day. Bob & Ginge decide to stop for chips n curry sauce before making their way home #MomentsOfCalm #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

In the middle of nowhere no-one can hear you scream #MomentsOfCalm #amwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife #wip

In #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 56 is called Smash & Grab. It’s been a successful afternoon but, uh-o hang on, things are just about to turn… #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife

Top of Stoney looking east #moon #Shaftesbury #Dorset

From #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 54, Pub Chat. After nearly four pints and a half-dozen samosas, things are about to get quite messy! #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife

Rich pickings #nut #foraging #orchardtown #Shaftesbury #Dorset

Excerpt from #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 52, entitled Learning To Blow; and our young hunt saboteur is teaching himself how to scupper a #fox or #hare hunt single-handed! #amwriting #novel #fiction #author #story

I really like the art this guy creates

I just donated £50. These folks are doing a modern day version of precisely what Ginge does in #MomentsOfCalm, albeit set circa 30 years ago gofund.me/5982a6fb7

Wanna see my chapters? #MomentsOfCalm #iamwriting #story #fiction #5amwritersclub #yesican #WritingCommunity #SkyWriters #BookSky #ThisWritingLife #fox #animalrights #hunting #huntsabs

Chapter 50 from #MomentsOfCalm is called Validations & Resolutions. It’s a time of reflection for Ginge. But the pain of injustice keeps calling him back… #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife

Something for the weekend - just published in the Manchester Post, Stockport Post and all the Post Newspapers! Huge thanks to the @postcommunitynews.bsky.social and all the wonderful poets

Linocuts make a wonderful handmade gift 💚 www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo... #handmade #shopindie #printmaking #linocut #UKGiftHour

From #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 48 entitled Gone Away, and their blood is up… #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife

Conference #pear season is upon us #fruit #growyourown #gardening #orchard #allotment

From #MomentsOfCalm, Chapter 47 ‘Children’s Meet At Charney Stanford’, & the Blenhem-Barclay Hunt has just set off…. #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife

The end of Chapter 46 in #MomentsOfCalm and, strewth, that was close! #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife

Last para from #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 45, ‘The Stars Are Out’, and Ginge is working through it all in his head…. #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #huntsab #resistance #5amwritersclub #fiction #thiswritinglife

Completely rewritten. My days work (well, some of it) 😉 #MomentsOfCalm is a work of pure fiction. Or is it? This, from Chapter 44 “Keep Stirring” where Ginge has been given access by Bish to his Hunt Files…. #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #hunt #resistance

#MomentsOfCalm is a work of pure fiction. Or is it? This, from Chapter 44 “Keep Stirring” where Ginge has been given access by Bish to his Hunt Files…. #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #animalrights #hunt #resistance

I shot this Common Blue #butterfly in my back #garden tother day with a Google Pixel 5. Being in the right place at the right time, and ready, is the secret imo 🙂 @annie780.bsky.social

Posting these excerpts is really helpful. I edit and edit but so often when I share what I think is finished a word or phrase makes me baulk. Here, from earlier today, an unnecessary “out”. #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author #animalrights #hunt

In moments of rebellion, we find courage. Mick and Ginge's plan dances between chaos and camaraderie, reminding us that sometimes, defiance is a form of love. Let’s celebrate these brave souls! #booksky #books

Excerpt from #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 39 “We Did Him A Favour”, when Mick and Ginge execute a plan hatched to scupper the Blenhem-Barclay Hunt from their Buckwell Manor meet. #iamwriting #indieauthor #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author

Editing hard. A hundred-plus words cut from three chapters of #MomentsOfCalm. Always enjoy going back over, cutting, tightening and tweaking. #iamwriting #writer #author #yesican #whynotme

A bumper crop of hazelnuts this year. Get gathering before the squirrels! #foraging #wildharvest #orchardtown #foodforfree #nuts #hazelnuts #cobnuts #filberts

My first attempt at #lime #pointing, ever. Very pleased 😊

Excerpt from #MomentsOfCalm Chapter 41 ‘Six Weeks To Christmas’, and things are anything but… #iamwriting #story #fiction #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #skywriters #booksky #thiswritinglife #huntsabs

Manna from heaven arrived this morning but has gone again #rain

The tweaking aka editing of my latest circa 524 words continues ... #iamwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #writers #story #fiction