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Blog posts by Pamela Pickton

Lindsay Pickton

10-Dec-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

  I knew a young teenage boy called Lindsay Patterson when I had the first two girls and did not plan any more children. But I did think the name Lindsay went well with our surname. I had never heard of it as a girls’ name. It was a Scottish town name, a Scottish clan name, there […]

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Lunch for the Needy

28-Sep-18 By Pamela Pickton 1 Comment

I am at the church which I sometimes attend, mostly for their social events such as a Harvest Suppermeal or one of their discussion groups and courses. These meals, For the Homeless, are run by a local charity, and churches in the area take their turn to be host, about twice a year. It works […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Church Charity, Food for the Needy, Lunch for the Needy, Needy, Pamela Pickton

How I Came To Write ‘Reasons’

30-Jul-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

How I came to write the title story of my collection of short stories, Reasons. While studying for my Masters Degree in Creative Writing, I was fortunate to have Paul Bailey, novelist and critic, as my tutor for one option. The assignment was to write a 500 word story and I was unsure how to […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Old Man Young Woman, Pamela Pickton, Reasons, zitebooks

Good Fairy, Bad Fairy

6-Jul-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

how I came to write Good Fairy, Bad Fairy For a period of time, I was separated from my youngest daughter. We could no longer live together. It was to do with my life situation which is described in my prose writing at the beginning of the Poetry Collection Windows. She was at a Sixth Form […]

Filed Under: Getting Published, Opinion, Writing

The Admirers

8-Jun-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

HOW I CAME TO WRITE THE ADMIRERS I once had a neighbour who always had four cats. If one died, got run over or met a similar fate, she straightaway got another. One day I was in her house and her cats were all around us. Her man friend, Kim, was there too. I said […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Cats, Pamela Picton, Short Story, Windows

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