My Writing – Eunice C English

COLLECTING UP A CONGLOMERATION OF ECLECTIC AND SOMETIMES GARRULOUS (thank you Helen Garner!)…ELECTRONIC BITS OF PAPER

Don’t let that put you off. My writing has been described as ‘deceptively simple, and usually has a subtext’.  My University lecturer pointed that out – .meaning there is a whole lot more going on between the lines if you care to look.

I can write something in all seriousness (let me think of something) but my reader will burst out laughing because it is so funny. Beats me.

My puncuation is woeful. I have always assumed, maybe arrogantly – definitely hopefully -that my Publisher would allocate an Editor whose mind actually gets that stuff; adverbs, adjectives. I am basic mathematics, they are trigonometry. My brain simply wont go there. Its like sheet music without the video of an orchestra playing the tune.

So you get a comma where I am drawing breath, a full stop where I momentarily stop speaking. A new paragraph when I am changing thought, or going off at a tangent.  Then…if something new comes to mind and ……… when words fail me…………

T’internet, as they say in Worksop, gives us frredom of poor speech. Sad but liberating.

It’s not rocket science its writing. Self-expression. I assume if you are here you care. If you dont care you simply hit a button and tootle off.

We are sharing. That’s how I work.

Australianisms: Although here in Australia we speak English we seem to have taken that English and rearranged it to suit ourselves which is very confusing for overseas visitors and New Settlers (migrants). We use colloquialisms meaning certain phrases actually refer to something else eg “I’ve been flat out like a lizard drinking” means: working really hard or been really busy”

I write as I speak (with a Scottish accent lol) so if you dont understand something please feel free to contact me for an explanation.

Campus Life – draft
About Mee

In the Next Life – Poyum

In the next life we meet
On a wíndy beach
in a rocky cove
The loose sand whistles
over the wet
Í am walking a small black dog
On a long lead
It runs to you and stops
Tail wagging
tongue lolling
You bend to touch
His wiry fur
He licks your hand.
You look up
As you bend
And meet my eyes
Surprised they
match the
Green of
the heart of
The tumbling waves
I go to move on
And smile at you
You turn and walk beside me
Our hands touch
Then gently clasp
Nothing spoken
Às we move on.

Eunice C English
Dec 2020

DRAGON DAYS– a short story0

Modern Day Baby Dragon?

One day, when the sun was shining, all the baby dragons in Paula’s house decided to go and play in the woodland.
Mummy dragon, whose real name was Paula, had said they could go on their own this time, because she was waiting for the arrival of their new brother or sister – or both, or two boys or two girls. You never knew with dragons!
Before they set off Paula told them where to find food and drink in the woodland.

Then Brown and Spot all set off together with Freddy and Lulu, but being dragons they soon wandered off in different directions.

Spot found the shady pool by the big rock first and the tree root with lots of yummy witchety grubs. 
He wasnt greedy, and left plenty for his siblings. One by one they shuffled into the clearing, tired but happy. They had a great picnic of fresh witchety grubs, green pond weed with slime, and water. When they get bigger, Spot told them, they would be able to throw flame from their tongues to hsve barbecued witchety grubs! “Oooooh”, they all said together.

Natural swimming pond created at Gringley on the Hill

For the rest of the afternoon the tiny dragons played together; running under the waterfall, sploshing in the mud on the edge of the pond then jumping ‘splat’ into the water, swimming around pretending to be the Loch Ness Monster and making each other laugh so much!

When the shadows came over the pond they knew it was time to go home for tea. They went in a line, like elephants do, and followed Brown home through the trees.

They had a great surprise when they got home. The newest little dragon had arrived! It was curled up in a basket at Mummy’s side, fast asleep. They all came over to see their new brother, very quietly, and Mummy gave them all a hug to show they were special too.

Grandma Dragon had arrived to visit and she made them toasted crumpets with honey to celebrate. Guess how Grandma toasted those crumpets? Then they all curled up together in.their big bed of soft ferns and fell fast asleep. The End….for now!
©Eunice C English

Heh heh! Nice one Eunice  – on becoming notorious

That remark from Damon at the Herald usually means he will convert it into one of his funny topics over which I have no control. but I do have an actual following (accordind to my doctor and local Federal Politician, toot toot ïwho look out for what Damon çalls our Double Act, referring to comedians. Ah well, fame at any price or being the Local Idiot? Watch that page. I googled ‘Eunice C English.Topics,Herald’ (as you do) and was surprised how much I had actually contributed. Usually I forget what I send till someone tells me it was in print. Usually it is my Physio Kelly who says her husband, is a genuine fan gives me the message via Brian. He has also commandeered the coffee cup I made Kelly last year for using while reading his newspaper.Now that is a fan! Maybe I should start merchandising?

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