Friday, June 13, 2008

Working together, lunch and memories.

Lynne Rees is using 3BT in her AppleHouse Poetry Workshop -- can't wait to see some of the results.

1. Tania and I write from the same set of prompts at the same time. As she points out afterwards, we're thousands of miles apart, but sharing creative energy.

2. Tender gnocchi in a green sauce, a bottle of fizzy water and a tiny cup of espresso.

3. We watch Ray Mears interviewing Torres Straits islanders. A toothless former pearl shell diver reminisces about scaring sharks by blowing bubbles at them. He laughs as he describes driving them towards a rival, and the rival scaring them back again.

Heather, portfolio and expand.

1. There are drifts of mauve heather blossom here and there on the common where the trees have been cleared to open up heathland. 2. I rathe...