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My blog has moved to Substack
In early 2024 I discovered Substack. It is easy to use, and a fine community for writers, so my blog is now hosted there. My earlier posts, covering issues like my writing journey and apps/software of interest to writers, are retained on this site. Newer ones will be on Substack. Take a look: Charlie Garratt’s…
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What’s in a family?
It started with a search for family Back in the 1990s, way before the internet, Ancestry, Findmypast, and a hundred other genealogy sites were available, I started to research my family history. Why I bothered at the time I can’t remember, but I do know I’d been given a photograph, allegedly of my great-grandfather. Something…
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The Perfect Place to Write?
If you’re looking for the perfect place to write, it is probably just in your head. Not actually, physically, in there, of course, but a mental attitude to a location where you feel comfortable. I just spent two weeks in France, only a holiday but hoping the change of scene would help me write more.…
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It’s all about family
A Handkerchief for Maria – a family saga In this engaging family saga, Maria sits by the bed of her comatose daughter, Alice, in 1945.When the doctor tells Maria the young woman has only a short time to live, she begins to tell Alice family stories, some true, some not, to make sense of the…
