Five Photos. Five Stories. Day 1
Thank you Calen at Impromptu Promptlings for nominating me for this fun challenge. For anyone who hasn’t seen Calen’s lovely inspiring site, I recommend that you check it out now.
When I beheld that sweet haven which was to be my home for a while behind my rib cage where my tired heart lay sick something fluttered and swelled and a feeling that healing could reach me swept through my senses. The trees welcomed me their budding leaves opening to show me the future © Jane Paterson Basil
The Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge rules require you to post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph – it’s entirely up to you.
Then each day, nominate another blogger to carry on this challenge.
Accepting the challenge is entirely up to the person nominated, it is not a command. Today, I’m inviting Annie, The Little Snowflake to join the challenge.
Making it write 
Oh gosh, Jane. That’s so beautiful. It felt like you were going to such a healing place. And I loved the way you placed it on the page. It felt like taking a big deep breath and letting it out. Wonderful!
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Thank you! It was a beautiful moment. I was in shock. I had run away from the months and years of hell because everyone had told me to, and there seemed to be nothing left of me. Suddenly I was standing at the gate to paradise. My head went up, I stood straighter, I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. I was in love! I have linked the story I wrote about it under “this haven”. All of the photo/story challenge posts are going to be about aspects of Wild Boar Wood.
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That’s awesome to have an overall theme. I can’t wait to read the rest of them. It’s funny how some things can just drive you to be creative, isn’t it? I felt like I was writing a bloomin’ travel blog. It didn’t suit me.
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You’re just a rebel who thinks she has to do what is requested of her, but doesn’t want to! I love that about you. I’ve had a guffawing laugh stuck in my throat for hours, but nothing to use it on. You’ve given me something to tag it to, and I’m grateful for that, athough I’m laughing so much that it’s hard to type!
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🙂 It’s always good to be good for something! I’m glad it made you laugh.
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To make people laugh is the greatest thing.
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I did look at the website. It struck me that you can’t tell by looking at it where the camp site is — there or here. It was an odd thought.
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The countryside around it is very English, with small clumps of woodland between patchwork fields, but I see what you mean. Some of the trees are hornbeam, which only grow in that part of the country, so I had never seen them before. Do you have hornbeam in the US? Its wood is used for making handles for tools, and i believe it was once popular for ship-building.
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Simply lovely…..xox 😊
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Thank you. I’m using Wild Boar Wood as my theme for this challenge. Did you take a look at the Ecocamp UK website?
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Beautiful! Wild Boar Wood looks like an enchanting place.
Have you thought any more about submitting your work to competitions? I reckon your work would be great for mslexia: https://mslexia.co.uk/competition/poetry-competition/
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Thanks for that!
I’ve been so wrapped up in writing / impending homelessness /daughter’s psochosis/ family matters that I haven’t done much about it lately. I had a look at Mslexia earier inthe year, and then forgot all about it, but I’ll take another look now.
I entered one competition with a story, and it has been shortlisted. This is the link. http://mashstories.com/competition/current-shortlist/
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Beautiful words, beautiful photo. And what a great idea for a challenge 🙂
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Thank you. You have just set yourself up to be nominated!
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I’m game. Bring it on 🙂
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Thank you so much for the nomination! This is so beautifully done! I am so so glad you nominated me for the challenge
This really inspired me 😀
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