http://www.openwriting.com/ Openwriting Web magazine features a feast of words from regular columnists, U3A writers and other authors. Every day there is something new to read in Openwriting. 2010-02-09T12:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/10_the_well_off_1.php ...Before we left Sandwith, our attention was attracted by a For Sale sign on a disused yard: Land For Sale with Outline Planning Permission for the Erection of Twenty Dwellings (Six Affordable). Even with over two hundred and forty years... Ancient Feet Alan Nolan 2010-02-09T12:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/spices_1.php ...The recent cold snap makes travel to anywhere mildly equatorial awfully appealing, but winter remains Alaskans’ best time for armchair traveling. Reading’s often the best way, and always the most comfortable to experience remote and dangerous places... Greg Hill goes... Alaskan Range Greg Hill 2010-02-09T11:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/chapter_20_7.php ...Kentish lived there alone, except for his housekeeper. If I'd been looking for company there, I think I might have taken one of those twin-engined Swedish models. He'd got an elderly woman called Mrs Bull who displaced about as much... Ratcatcher Colin Dunne 2010-02-09T10:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/war_3.php Five-year-old Ronnie Bray had only a vague understanding of the significance of the onset of war.... A Shout From The Attic Ronnie Bray 2010-02-09T09:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/it_never_seems_1.php ...Don’t get me wrong. I am not against giving to charity. I think we all have to give in whatever way we can. But I would like to make that decision myself without being hounded into it... Lytrice Adams is... Bonzer Words! Lytrice Adams 2010-02-09T08:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/every_one_is_a_1.php ...soldiers carried the coffin into church on their shoulders and the family followed in deep grief. He was just nineteen years old. His life had barely begun. The scene in our village has been repeated in towns and villages throughout... Open Features Mary Pilfold-Allan 2010-02-08T12:24:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/the_progress_of_1.php Richard Donkin zestfully joins in a debate on the progress of women. Please visit Richard's entertaining Web site http://richarddonkin.com/ To purchase a copies of Richard's celebrated books please clicl pn http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Sweat-Tears-Evolution-Work/dp/1587990768/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214554429&sr=1-2 and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Work-Richard-Donkin/dp/0230576389/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260983216&sr=1-1... Donkin's World Richard Donkin 2010-02-08T12:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/thoughts_on_tod_1.php Richard Harris is struck by the thought that today's children are bigger and brighter than their parents.... Western Walkabout Richard Harris 2010-02-08T11:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/dream_run_1.php ...Too late! Nothing for it but to continue on. Feeling very apprehensive about negotiating an eighteen foot caravan in such circumstances, I gripped the steering wheel and hoped for the best... Maureen Freeman is no lover of driving on Freeways.... U3A Writing Maureen Freeman (Sunraysia U3A, Australia) 2010-02-08T10:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/110_passing_the_1.php ...The Matron had a habit of just breezing into the house iike a ship in full sail, as she was rather plump and would send me to bed even when I was getting up, telling Rod I had to stay... The Day Before Yesterday Gladys Shofield 2010-02-08T09:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/the_unnoticed_g_1.php Arnold Kellett's poem was prompted by an Act of Parliament in 1652 which abolished Christmas.... Christmas Every Week Arnold Kellett 2010-02-08T08:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/lyth_hill_and_m_1.php ...Another writer, much older and more famous than myself, made her home on Lyth Hill not far away from mine in Spring Coppice. She was Mary Webb and her work is still read, though perhaps better known in the 1920s... Feather's Miscellany John Waddington-Feather 2010-02-07T12:22:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/scene.php Oh the drama of acting! Richard Mallinson tells a theatrical tale.... Fast Fiction Richard Mallinson 2010-02-07T12:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/fire_and_ice_1.php ...A fair guess might be that the city’s music-loving citizens would, metaphorically speaking, be fighting in lumps over the tickets. That fair guess turned out to be a bit wide of the mark. I’ll make no bones about this –... Views And Reviews Paul Serotsky 2010-02-07T11:02:00+00:00 http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2010/02/a_travelling_re_1.php Peter Clarkson and his wife Moira enjoy Christmas in Australia with relatives from England.... Oz Musings Peter Clarkson 2010-02-07T10:58:00+00:00