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Posted Last Week by RodtheBrit/pseudo Kiwi. How very British the weather - still, it'll be cured on Friday - and it was.
Reminder/refresher-
What have you done or been part of or 'been there' for?
{Any & All though I might ask for a brief background if it seems likely to be unfamiliar to most of us...}
We now have two sections:
In Living Memory: for those things of Global, (your) National or (your) Cultural significance, that won't come around again (try to put a date or a year or a decade to your story).
Things We Remember: for non-earthshaking events, but which are important to us as individuals (times of less importance).
RtB
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Posted Last Week by RodtheBrit/pseudo Kiwi. How very British the weather - still, it'll be cured on Friday - and it was.
Hokay
Just about ready for PR, with both. I'll delay a while 'cos I'm agonna be occupied for a week, which will be enough (?) for a few more contributions ...anyone?
So far
InLivingMemory: nearly 8 A4 pages, Times New Roman/14
ThingsWeRemember: 5-and-a-bit, ditto
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Posted Last Week by RodtheBrit/pseudo Kiwi. How very British the weather - still, it'll be cured on Friday - and it was.
<stealing a few minutes for yoohoo>
Wordcount:
Recommended length for a long entry: 2,000 words or so
ThingsWeRemember: 2549
InLivingMemory: 3557
. pre 60s: 1016
. the 60s: 1471
. post60s: 1012
eh? that doesn't add up
I think I'll post them (soon?) as Not for Review, so you can look 'em over, set me right & comment before formal submission to PR - I'll give links here.
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Do you know, the more I work on these, the more important InLivingMemory seems.
- and, how do I give credit to contributors?
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Posted Last Week by lanzababy - Pirate - Scout - adrift on life's ocean
Hi - these Entries are coming on well. Can I recommend that you submit them to the Edited Guide writing-workshop as a preliminary to Peer Review? You get lots of helpful advice there - especially from people interested in the craft of writing, who may or may not have already contributed here - so widening your pool of advisers/contributors.
Oh, yes, about adding researchers to the list of contributors -
Go to 'edit entry' and look towards the bottom of the page. There is a box which gives instructions - you add researchers by pasting in the user numbers ( without the 'U') and then click where it says 'Set Researchers'
 Lanzababy Scout
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Posted Last Week by RodtheBrit/pseudo Kiwi. How very British the weather - still, it'll be cured on Friday - and it was.
thanks lanzababy, I'll get 'em out of where they are & put 'em  where you suggest... but not, I'm afraid, just yet.
(I should have waited, but wanted to move on before abandoning y'all for RL)
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Posted Last Week by lanzababy - Pirate - Scout - adrift on life's ocean
There's no rush Rod  I just thought it would be a halfway house, and I know that there is a lot of supportive commenting that goes on in the Writing Workshop.
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Posted Last Week by ~ jwf ~
I was surprised to read those and suddenly realise just how many stories had been contributed. Seeing them all together like that makes a great impression, greater than seeing them bit by bit as they were posted into the thread over a longer period of time.
As for the Edited Guide and the Review process - which will almost automatically reject 'first person' accounts submitted as entire entries - may I suggest that all these individual accounts be more clearly and firmly set as 'quoted examples of typical responses' (acquired data) to the larger original question of how memories work, how they are retained what we choose to remember.
Edited Entries often rely on 'quotes' (even first person quotes) to support a larger thesis or to enlarge a larger question.
peace
~jwf~
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Posted Last Week by anancygirl oh what a tangled web
Hi Rod, Correction or clarification re: my entry. My father served in the Canadian Army , in WWII as a cook, that is what always made the story my dad told so special. I also remember, He said, finding that goose was not easy, something about a big fight going on and I believe dad mentioned Patton's showing up was not something the cook got any forewarning about. I wish I had more details, I will try to find out.
Thanks for doing these entries, I'm enjoying them very much.
Nancy
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Posted 6 Days Ago by  Pit ( carpe diem - stay in bed )
OK, as to corrections - the Wembley Goal one. My Dad wasn´t stationed there, our hovel was on the left side of the road, ie German. And calling the town WetMold was a squaddies´ joke, due to our weather - real name is Detmold. (Hobart Barracks in our part of if, and it was jolly good to have you Brits.)
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Posted 2 Days Ago by Pit ( carpe diem - stay in bed )
Rod, one you ought to leave out, as, by tacit agreement, it never made it to MP or civilian police files. Detmold again, 70s.
Gentlemen from...erm, another country tried for a protection racket.
Unfortunately the first landlord they contacted ran the Lifeguards´ and MPs´ favourite pizza restaurant. First time they came to collect their fee made them ditch the idea.
The young gentlemen were even as gentlemanly as to call for ambulances before they spoke their mind.
That´s what used to happen whenever Brit soldiers were posted to too large a garrison in too small a town and feared they would have to stay in the ghetto and were welcomed instead.
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Posted 20 Hours Ago by RodtheBrit/pseudo Kiwi. How very British the weather - still, it'll be cured on Friday - and it was.
Calling in again - Christmas fayre at *The Studios* (remind me to tell you about that, one day - small but I find it novel and interesting) on Sunday, so I'm turning toys & tree decorations, Miz Stress painting them... busy Busy BUSY. After that (on Wed), my monthly full day's (6/7th of 36) woodturning course - homework not done yet & it's a tricky task.
Dammit I'm supposed to be retired!
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Pit & anancy girl - thank you, corrected.
Sorry about those <blushingandfarting>, just a teensy little big bit crass of me.
Pit - your protection racket's a goodie, (not for InLivMem, but it'd well suit ThiWeRem). Pity it's one we ought to leave out ...but just how long ago was it...?
Rod
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Posted 17 Hours Ago by Pit ( carpe diem - stay in bed )
Rod, I was still living in Detmold, so it must have been sometime in the mid70s. Probably all involved who wore tinsel on their uniforms are pensioneers by now, so you might use it.
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