In Our Own Write – January 2024
Happy New Year. We had our first meeting of 2024 when five of us got together and the topic was “It was January”. As usual we had a wide range of interpretations of the subject matter.
- A story set in the 1950’s when washing was done by hand and clipped to the washing line by chapped hands. There was no such thing as mobile phones and women mostly were housewives. Children walked to and from school and what happened the day that a child was snatched by a stranger when walking home with her brother.
- A poem of parallel lives with one young man celebrating New Year here with fireworks and a young man in Ukraine on the same night dealing with real rockets.
- A man perusing a pile of travel brochures as if deciding where to go and then the sting in the tail in that he was confined to a wheelchair and could only dream.
- A woman experiencing pregnancy at a more mature age.
- A group of grandsons secretly following their deceased grandfather’s wishes on New Year’s Eve by scattering his ashes at the traditional family firework display.
The next meeting will be Monday 12 February and the topic is “The Quick thinker”.
Travina White, Convenor