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I am an ageing asteroid hurtling through space at the most alarming rate. I hope to collide with literary supernovas for pleasing impact. My trusted hound Muffin who is in search of the Dog Star accompanies me. At present I have landed on MySpace and am enjoying cyber connections. When not hurtling I write light and comic verse. My writing has been described as surreal and anarchic and is influenced by Milligan and Lear. I write nursery rhymes for grown ups and consider myself a modern day Lear but without the Owl and the Pussycat. I do not know much about me, as I've never been on a journey of self-discovery because I wouldn't know where to start. However my friends say that I'm positive, determined and forthright; as I'm also gullible it has to be true because I believe everything people tell me. My outer shell is pure sugar coating and the grey matter of my mind is soft sponge and mallow and it is there I encounter my ideas.

My work has been featured in the local press, magazines and anthologies and can be found also on the bbc blackcountry website in the theatre and books section: called Carol Ward Blurring of Genders, also Carol Ward The Latest which is about the trials and tribulations of being a poet

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My Interests

I am very interested in staying alive, wandering while wondering takes up much of my day, attempting to count the remaining marbles; also I enjoy walking the dog while singing it, writing groups, writing poetry, having fun with the girls, cryptic crosswords and word puzzles but only till my brain aches, I have a real talent for sleeping

I'd like to meet:

The Loch Ness Monster.Myself on the way back

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Music:

All music that helps to remind me that I'm still alive, The Rolling Stones, Beatles, the Beachboys, Abba, The Scissor Sisters. Duran Duran, The Kinks The Moody Blues George Michael,Lionel Richie,Dean Martin, Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Madonna's voice, Ivor Cutler Mozart Bach

Movies:

Morgan, a suitable case for treatment.This Sporting Life,All Mike Leigh esp.Naked, Harold and Maude, Cabaret,The Deerhunter, Jules et Jim, Jeanne de Florette et Manon des Sources, What's eating Gilbert Grape? What to do in Denver when you're Dead,Withnail and I,Midnight Cowboy, American Beauty,The Usual Suspects, Lord of the Rings Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Gladiator, Mutiny on the Bounty, Scent of a Woman, Camelot

Television:

Mock the Week, Have I got news for you, all comedies esp the Vicar of Dibley and Fawlty Towers. The Apprentice. Swashbucklers with great emphasis on the swash.Period dramas with swash if possible.Also nature programmes as I have a keen interest in conservation

Books:

An Evil Cradling, Lark Rise to Candleford,, London Fields, Dead Babies,Handful of Dust all George Orwell esp. Keep the Aspidistra Flying and A Clergyman's Daughter,Catcher in the Rye, Silas Marner, In Cold Blood, The Secret Garden,Bad Blood, Wuthering Heights, Sons and Lovers.Glimpses The World's Wife, Jane Austen esp Pride and Prejudice. Lorna Doone. William Golding, esp Free Fall and Lord of the Flies.John Wain(not the cowboy) Hurry on Down. also short stories. Fay Weldon. Christopher Isherwood The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan

Heroes:

My father. George Orwell

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Frissons

Frissons are saucy, frissons are bold, but I’ll let no one watch me grow old ....not unless I fancy them
Posted by carol on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:36:00 PST

Losing the Marbles

It was my son's birthday yesterday except I thought it was today so I arranged for yesterday to take my mother out for lunch. Confused?? How do you think I feel?? We went to a garden centre and...
Posted by carol on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST

Food Heaven, Food Hell

The simple answer to this is a concept commonly called Christmas, a time of feasting, rich food, mince pies, Yule logs, stuffings of every imaginable nature, a time to stuff geese, turkeys, chickens, ...
Posted by carol on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:21:00 PST

A cyber spoof love affair between Dante and Dot

They were from the opposite sides of the globe. He from down under wherever that was and she came from a long line of biscuit packers from Bolton. He was a sheep shearer which was fine in Dot'...
Posted by carol on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:57:00 PST

Women and Multi- tasking

I write this blog as a tribute to all women and for me it is proof of women's ability to do lots of things at once. While taking Muffin for his morning constitutional I saw a woman taking ...
Posted by carol on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:14:00 PST

Achievements

Splodgicious tagged me to write about achievements so here they are: My biggest achievement is that I've managed to stay alive and here I am My next best achievement is going to the shops. I hav...
Posted by carol on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:11:00 PST

Something tasty for Halloween

A witch's brew..: Lung of lizard, tail of toad, Pheasant's entrails, killed by road, colon of cat and dung of dog, ribs of rat and phlegm of frog, a careful pinch of a cobra's hiss, a touch of poison...
Posted by carol on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:40:00 PST

Why I write poetry

I have been tagged by dungareemarine (about a month ago) about why I write poetry. I have forgotten the questions , however undeterred I'll make some up. The gist is: one of my first poems I ca...
Posted by carol on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:51:00 PST

Water, Water

Water, water, everywhere, God saw that it was good, Noah looked through his window, Said"Gosh there's been a flood" (c) carol ward 2007
Posted by carol on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:19:00 PST

BIirthday Bog

To be be perfectly honest when I woke up this morning I felt absolute rubbish. It was one of those oh God it's me again moments and how I wish it wasn't. However I soon regained my dreamlike composure...
Posted by carol on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:53:00 PST