http://backspace.blog.me.uk Sylvia puts the keyboard away Sun, 27 May 2012 11:54:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://backspace.blog.me.uk/one-sentence-story/ http://backspace.blog.me.uk/one-sentence-story/#comments Sun, 27 May 2012 11:52:59 +0000 Sylvia http://backspace.blog.me.uk/?p=1742 I wrote this
as a part of the #1ss Twitter challenge and then searched for someplace to post it. This notebook is a
bit dusty but still perfectly functional!

]]> http://backspace.blog.me.uk/one-sentence-story/feed/ 8 http://backspace.blog.me.uk/christmas-baking/ http://backspace.blog.me.uk/christmas-baking/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:00:55 +0000 Sylvia http://backspace.blog.me.uk/?p=1734 A teaspoon for the cookies, a tablespoon for me…
Christmas baking has never been so fun!

]]> http://backspace.blog.me.uk/christmas-baking/feed/ 3 http://backspace.blog.me.uk/too-much-new-to-tell-you/ http://backspace.blog.me.uk/too-much-new-to-tell-you/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:42:52 +0000 Sylvia http://backspace.blog.me.uk/?p=1725 I’ve given up on catching up… but big news is that my big project, You Fly Like a Woman, is now finally out as an e-book!

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until the story is complete…

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I need to get over myself.

]]> http://backspace.blog.me.uk/asking-questions/feed/ 5 http://backspace.blog.me.uk/doing-scary-things/ http://backspace.blog.me.uk/doing-scary-things/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:49:00 +0000 Sylvia http://backspace.blog.me.uk/?p=1676 I’m a bit
embarrassed that
I’ll be admitting to the stupid fears that I have, so posting this was a bit of a scary thing itself!

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single smile.

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