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Every day is different – yet the same. “Except in dreams, neither detail nor colour has ever since been so detailed or coloured: the fine edge of seeing for the first time too early wears blunt. But the first seeing … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 16, 2013 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist | Leave a comment

The Axe Attack

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

My brother and I had been fighting for days, over what exactly I can’t remember, but it would be over something that I wanted that he wouldn’t let me have. I screamed at him whilst he taunted me. We had moved … Continue reading →

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First Memories – The whaling Station

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I was four. My cousin Jenny came to stay. I hated her because my brother preferred playing with her than with me. She had already shown herself to be a scaredy-cat, having come to school with me she had cried … Continue reading →

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FIRST MEMORIES

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

My first memory is a vague, misty, scarcely-there vision of a railway line, a railway crossing and walking, walking, walking. I would have been around eighteen months old. I know it is a memory because when I talked about it … Continue reading →

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REFLECTIONS

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

                                                REFLECTIONS Everyday is different. This morning the river was still, not a breath of air ruffling … Continue reading →

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