Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

Silent Sunday

Posted on 8th June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

159/365 St George’s Island, Looe flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Knitting memories

Posted on 4th June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

With a new great nephew due soon, I’ve been spending time knitting for him – a hap to wrap him in when he arrives 134/365 Hap flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license A stripy jacket … Continue reading →

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Daily Photos

Posted on 1st June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Five months of photos, one a day. Every day a moment taken to pause and look closely at my surroundings.

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 1st June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Swans and Cygnets flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Unparalleled Misalignments

Posted on 29th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

An excellent Daily Create today: Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Did you see what we did there in the title of today’s Daily … Continue reading →

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The seven stages of writing

Posted on 27th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so … Continue reading →

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 25th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

140/365 Organize right flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 18th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

135/365 Roses are Orange flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 11th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Castle in the Sky

Posted on 9th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”) I found a … Continue reading →

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