Doodling – can’t think of another word which means idly scribbling a few words, rather than shapes or pictures, while the mind is occupied elsewhere, or unoccupied. The result, a ‘little story’ as one blogger calls them.
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I wasn’t surprised to see my grandmother when I opened the front door on a balmy summer evening, though some of you may think I should have been. She’s been dead for over 50 years.
“You are looking peaky,” she said. “I heard you playing that Schubert Impromptu; a few wrong notes and a bit erratic in places.”
I looked for the ruler in her hand, the one with which she rapped my fingers at each wrong note when I was a boy. Nothing.
“Are you going to invite me in?” she asked.
“No.”
“Well you come out for a walk then,” she said, extending a hand.
“No, it’s too cold out there, and I’m not ready yet,” I said as I firmly closed the door.
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February 2, 2018 at 10:34 am
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January 30, 2018 at 3:47 pm
I have a new blog! http://www.myramblesphere.com – thought I’d let you know 🙂 I am super excited about it. Hope you are well!
January 30, 2018 at 4:01 pm
Thankyou Beth. This is not a WordPress blog is it so more difficult for me to ‘follow’ but I’ll do my best. I’ll certainly go to have a look.
January 30, 2018 at 4:08 pm
You can follow by email if you’d like and I’m pretty sure you can follow it using WordPress! Let me know if you can’t 🙂
January 30, 2018 at 4:20 pm
I’ll have a go. I don’t usually follow by email because I don’t often open the email linked to my blog; I use the WordPress reader and check that every day. I’ll let you know how I get on. Nevertheless, I did leave a comment on it after reading your new blog so I hope that worked. So, wishing you luck in all your endeavours – you’re doing great so far!