It might have been . . .
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Our first Wordsmiths meeting of 2022 was great fun. It was lovely to be back together upstairs at the Thames Court, and share stories of our holidays and the bits and pieces that we've written.
Mike read a piece about the statue celebrating the Cnihtengild in Cutlers Gardens near Aldgate. The Cnihtengild were mercenary defenders of London settled on marshy land to the east, outside Aldgate, by Edgar the Peaceful, father of Aethelred the Unready, in the 10th century.
I read a chapter of LLR which offered a mix of despair, intrigue, policemen at Toad Hall, practicality, and resilience, all sprinkled with humour, as Rosina's cancer worsened.
David offered a meeting in Greenwich of cumbustive and contradictory climate forces, powerful yet ephemeral. He also read us an evocative piece about the blackbird in his ash tree.
David has asked that our next writing exercise be about something we did not do, but now wish we had. The road not taken . . . So that explains the title and the image above.
And if we still have ambitions of a spring weekend break somewhere to the west we had best start planning now. Bring your ideas on Tuesday.
It might have been . . .