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A Wish for Your Place⤴

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A wish for my place
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Today’s TDC  says

Today is the National Day on Writing. Today, make a wish for your place. This activity is taken from the Write Where We Stand Choice Board

Go outside where you are, take something to write with, and find a comfortable place to sit for a few moments. Take in your surroundings.

  • What do you notice about your place?
  • What do you notice about the natural environment and the human-made things around you?

Now, consider what your place was like in the past. Then, switch your perspective and consider your place and its future.

Draw, write down some words, gather details – capture what you notice and imagine in a way that works for you.

Now, close your eyes, imagine you are blowing the seeds of a giant puffball dandelion flower, and make a wish for the future of your place. What would your wish be?

I went to stand outside, but it’s pretty rainy so I didn’t stay out for long. I noticed a hole in the fence though, where a fox had dug a path out of our garden last night. However, I appreciated the quiet of the morning – no workmen using powertools, no neigbours shouting over the fence. So here’s my wish for my garden.

I hope that the birds keep visiting and brightening my day with their songs
I hope that the brambles keep growing despite the fox’s antics
I hope the bugs find a cosy place to rest amongst the fallen leaves
And I hope that we can call this home for many years to come

The Art of Kilo⤴

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Autumn Leaves
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Today’s TDC says

Write Out recently a workshop by teachers who use a traditional Hawaiian observation practice called Kilo alongside their students.

What are your observation super-powers? Or which ones do you tap into most to support your writing?

Learn more about Kilo

The one I use most is sight, and my camera is my superpowe – I often use it to help me to focus on details of my surroundings. On Saturday, as we were out at a nature reserve watching a heron, I saw how the zoom was catching the colours of this beech tree, with a seed head looking like a butterfly skeleton at the bottom right hand of the image.

Nature is beautiful in every season. Today, as I have a day off, I will head outside in the crisp autumn sun and plant some bulbs. Aloha!

Six Word Story⤴

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Rain
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Today’s TDC says

Where do YOU stand? Share a six-word story about your place or location (and maybe we can even guess where it is?!) Feel free to add art or be creative with your six word story.

I wrote one about the city I call home:

Rain always near: dear green place

The image at the top is taken through my study window looking out at my garden on a typical Glasgow morning

World Food Day 2026⤴

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World Food Day
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Today’s TDC says

Today is World Food Day

The UN have a challenge for people aged 5-19. We might not be, ahem, quite that young, but we can still participate here:

Create a poster that shows what “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.” means to you. Show us how innovation – big or small, old or new – can help feed the world, protect the planet, and build a better future for everyone.

Mine’s at the top of the post.

Lemon Poem⤴

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350/365 Lemon Meyer
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Today’s TDC says

Write a three line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour.

I wrote a haiku:

Sunlight on a branch
Zesty tingles on the tongue
Summer in a glass

History of Advertising Trust turns 50⤴

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Frogs in advertising
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Today’s TDC says

The History of Advertising Trust is an archive of 50 years of British adverts. Visit and revel in video and audio commercials, print advertising and ghost signs (no idea what these are, me neither, but they sound intriguing!).

Make some art based on what you find there – maybe a mashup image, a gif or a poem. Also see this Grauniad article if you’d like to know more.

As I often do, I searched on the key word ‘frog’ and got 31 results.

Harebells⤴

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Harebells
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Today’s TDC says

I don’t know if you have ever read the old versions of fairy tales or not, but some of these familiar stories are pretty gruesome. Walt Disney became famous for taking these very old tales and sanitizing them for modern youngsters. One of my favorite examples comes from the tale of Cinderella when the prince comes looking for the owner of the lost slipper and a stepsister tries it on.

…The eldest went first into the room where the slipper was, and wanted to try it on, and the mother stood by. But her big toe could not go into it, and the shoe was altogether much too small for her. Then the mother said, “Never mind, cut it off. When you are queen you will not care about toes; you will not want to go on foot.” So the silly girl cut her big toe off, and squeezed the shoe on, and went to the king’s son…

For today’s Daily Create, find a suitable fairy tale (Project Gutenberg has loads of fairy tale books) and create something depicting a scene from the story. It can be a drawing, a photograph, a sound recording, whatever suits your fancy. Also, it is ok to go a little dark with this so long as you keep within the bounds of good taste and safe-for-workedness. Of course, you can also go with the modern-sanitized approach as well. And they lived happily ever after.

As I read about the story of Rapunzel I realised that Rapunzel was actually a plant

When Rapunzel’s mother is pregnant with her, she has the worst pregnancy cravings ever for the green for which the little girl will eventually be named — which, as luck would have it, grows bountifully in the garden of the witch next door. She convinces her husband to steal some for her; however, the witch catches him. She says he can have all the rapunzel he wants if he’ll give her the baby when it’s born. He agrees to the trade.

So I searched for pictures of rapunzel and noticed how similar the flowers are to Scottish bluebells (which I knew as harebells when I lived in the north of England). I love these little flowers when I see them peeking through grass or growing between rocks. At the top of the page is a photo I took on Mull 10 years ago. Below is one I took in Findhorn last year.

Harebells
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