I was reading a post on Instagram where someone wondering whether to start a blog. Of course, I immediately came on and said yes, and extolled the virtues of WordPress. It was only as I was doing so; I realised just what a community WordPress is. Suddenly I began comparing it to Facebook.For a long… Continue reading WordPress V Facebook
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The Power of Words
featuring author and founder of Electric Eclectic Books, Paul White Having read the interview with Paul White, which is linked at the bottom, it resinated with me because I, too, realised the power of words from an early age.I thought about how I started writing. My parents fostered children, and I was the eldest of… Continue reading The Power of Words
The Ode to Lancashire Cotton Corporation
Tune: The Church’s One Foundation I was searching through a box that has been kept in the loft for the last twenty years. It was full of old photos, newspaper, and postcards, etc. Amongst them I found this on a postcard. We are the Cotton Saviours,The Boys of the L.C.C. We cannot spin, we cannot… Continue reading The Ode to Lancashire Cotton Corporation
Bin Day
Happy New Year and welcome to the first blog post on Magic of Stories. I was wondering what it would be, then found myself musing one morning.The dustbin men came round the other morning about 8.30 am, and it made me remember what it used to once be like. In Anglesey, where I now live,… Continue reading Bin Day
Reflections of Simmondly
Simmondly is a small village in Glossop, Derbyshire, and in the early 1900s John Pedder, a retired councillor for Stretford Urban Council in Manchester, had a holiday cottage there. Their granddaughter, Molly, told me the story of Simmondly before she passed away in 2014 aged 100. 'We had this great big trunk which we’d pack… Continue reading Reflections of Simmondly
Learning Draft2Digital
This site seems to have gone from strength to strength recently. Uploading your book is fairly straight forward, but the magic begins when your book is published.. All books now have their own page, and by clicking on the title in the main dashboard brings up this. In here you can see that your book… Continue reading Learning Draft2Digital
I Was Only Dreaming!
by Karen J Mossman When I wake in the morning, I often remember my dreams and the fun part is trying to think what sparked it in the first place. Take, for example, the dreams of the last two nights. I love the bizarre quirkiness of dreams. Things make little sense or are just wisps of… Continue reading I Was Only Dreaming!
Save the World from Destruction!
by Karen J Mossman Over the years I’ve found I enjoy TV Box Sets that are apocalyptic or science fiction. I’m not the same with books because those I’ve tried I struggle with the pronouncing of names and places. It’s like struggling to read through mud. I was never a fan of zombies either, but… Continue reading Save the World from Destruction!
Various Subjects of 1889
by Charles Henry Stott Charles Stott was my great, great-grandfather and he wrote a book which came down through the family, finally ending up with me. Many of the articles it contained were fascinating and now a part of social history. By reproducing the articles here means I can share a slice of life in… Continue reading Various Subjects of 1889
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