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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

No Bananas

6-May-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

No Bananas When we had just returned from a two week’s holiday, my husband of a year – and you can see why it was not much longer – asked me, ‘Have we got any bananas?’ ‘Where would we have got them from?’ I replied. ‘Before we went away,’ he said. Holiday. Summer holiday. Like – […]

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Roll On Tomorrow

20-Apr-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

Roll on Tomorrow Of all my four children, only my one son has an English degree like me. Like me, he loves words and language, and people, and he is very funny, in a quaint, dry sort of way. One day, as a very young teenager, he said, ‘I like the idea of the sort […]

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The Books You Might Have Missed – Zitebooks Literary Review

29-Dec-17 By adminZ Leave a Comment

Our 2017 Zitebooks Christmas feature is our response to questions featured in Saturday’s Guardian’s Literary Review Supplement. Hope you enjoy them. James Goddard The book I am currently reading Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Someone at my book group suggested it last month as an ‘extra’ read. Ony about one third of the way through […]

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Christmas Greetings

11-Dec-17 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

`Posh people have better cards than most of us.` I remarked to my friend.`Yes, they do. Because they have rich friends.` Are they bigger? Mostly. Shinier? Or just of better quality material? However pretty, even beautiful, ours look like humble cottages next to Mansions Tall. The pretty, the beautiful, the funny, the well-crafted home-made. Still somehow scrappy next […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Christmas Greetings

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