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Monday Memoirs: Keeping Your Head

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Introduced by Holly King We are entering our seventh week of lockdown and it’s unclear if it will be extended again, or, if it isn’t, what the plan will be to ‘getting back to normal’, or even what toll that will have. While the coronavirus is the most pressing factor, closely followed ...

Monday Memoirs: A Collection Of Library Lovers

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Introduced by Holly King This week’s theme is The New Normal, as we’ve all had to adjust our daily routines and add or remove habits to stay safe and protect each other. This has different impacts depending on your situation, and each of us has something different to adapt to. We ...

Monday Memoirs: Keep Calm And..?

Monday Moments
Introduced by Holly King  Another week of Write On! Extra begins and we’ve built up a great selection of writing. It’s lovely to connect with so many new writers, and see that people have decided to create something, finding they have something to say. We’ve all had a lot of time to ...

Monday Memoirs: Then & Now

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Introduced by Holly King Happy Easter everyone! How have you adapted your traditional Easter weekend to fit in with our current situation? Usually, as fully grown children, we would all gather back at my parents’ for Easter Sunday. Our mum would cook us a load of food, give us Easter presents, ...

Monday Memoirs: We Need You

Monday Moments
Introduction by Holly King It’s week two of Write On! Extra and seven seasons of Netflix shows since we went into isolation. While I’m breaking up my days by testing out video chat apps with friends and sitting by my patio doors to see if the neighbour’s cat will waltz on by, I ...

Monday Memoirs: Saturday Morning Shopping 1960s style

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Saturday Morning Shopping 1960s style by Jean Fullerton Born a decade after WW2 ended, I’m a baby boomer and as such I was part of the last generation who remember the close-knit East Enders families that lived cheek by jowl in the cobbled streets clustered around the London Docks.   At that time, life had a rhythm of work and play that had gone on for generations. Men worked and women looked ...

Monday Memoirs: The Blackouts That Echo Today

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The Blackouts That Echo Today by Amanda King I grew up in the 1970s, a decade of strikes, three-day weeks, blackouts and piles of rotting rubbish on the streets. There was so much more, of course, the long hot summer of ’76 which seemingly went on forever, decimalisation, Space Hoppers, microwave ...

Monday Memoirs: A Post-War London Childhood

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Introduced by Holly King We kick off our first Write On! Extra ‘Monday Memoirs’ with a piece by Josephine Gee, reminiscing on her post-war Childhood in London and centring around the theme of food. Topical, considering today people are panic-buying and adjusting to not having access to the variety of food types we are used to; Josephine details the far more constraining and laborious tasks involved in buying and preparing ...