Experimenters . . . . . . . . . or guinea pigs?
Martin Brown
A fingerless glove
Fingerless gloves
has gone to Glastonbury ...
 
David Brunwin
Another bowl licked clean
fuse wire -- nickel -- 4 amp
in The Box
Aged aspiring writer, angler and golfer.  Needs sticks and carrots on a regular basis before pen is put to paper or he speaks and "voice recognition software" acknowledges his quavering tones.
 
Patricia Gould
in The Box
Patricia also practises horticulture and golf ... 
Gill Learner
Montagne Ste Victoire
Work-in-progress:
  Interview: the artist's widow
  The Box
Passionate about books since Peter Rabbit (and possibly before), Gill has been writing on and off since her early teens (which were a long time ago). About twenty-five years ago on returning to work after kid-things, she fell serendipitously into the world of printing (wonderful - how books are made), and ended her working life teaching Printing Studies in a further education college. Now retired she is finding time to write on a fairly regular basis (accompanied by music on Radio 3) when not gardening and going to exercise classes.
 
Pauline Masurel
Jezebel keeps her umbrella dry
Travels with my ladle
In The Box
Mazzy has no idea where her umbrella is right now but her ladle is strictly the stay-at-home type.  Some more words about her writing can be found here
 
Liz Tebbit
Millie and the umbrella
in The Box
Liz enjoys exercising her imagination with a spot of creative writing of prose and verse to counterbalance the entirely different skills she needs to use in her day job as an IT Consultant/Project Manager.
 
Pictures in the mind,
Of the poetic kind,
Appear on the screen,
So now they are seen.
 
Eileen Spencer Trott
How the Rainmaker became
Paris story
Seven Box in the loft haiku
Lancastrian, adopted Reading 30 years ago. Possess 9 speeding points; blame the Corsa. Obsession: extended family spreading to Australia. Will travel anywhere; explore any Web site. Likes...writing poetry...some published. Dislikes dusting, and bread and butter pudding. 
 
Margaret Wall
One evening in July ...
The rock from Mont Ste Victoire
'This moment ...'
in The Box
"I must admit that I find this computer stuff really baffling. Everyone else as far as I can see seems to really enjoy fiddling about with these machines and using phrases and words such as e-this and that but they are a foreign language to me. 

I would much rather use a pen and paper and have a book or a paper. It seems odd that people spend hours looking into computer screens and even ordering their shopping through a computer. I would much rather go to a shop and look at the product. Have we lost the art of actual communication with real people? What happens they go go wrong? will the world fall apart? Everyone was afraid that the millenium bug would affect computer systems worldwide and cause the planes to drop out of the sky and companies spent a fortune on ensuring that the worst would not happen.

Now it seems that there is some malevolent virus which is causing e-mails to go wrong. What a disaster. This must be the end of civilisation as we know it." 
[written live online at trAce Online Writing Community, Thursday, May 04, 2000, 09:20 p.m.]

Elizabeth James has led creative writing classes at Reading University for five years. With Jane Draycott she devises, writes and produces poetry and sound works for radio. Her e-mail collaborations with other poets are Neither the One nor the Other, with Frances Presley (Form Books, 1999) and 'Two Renga', with Peter Manson (Reality Street, forthcoming). In 1999 she was awarded a 3-month 'virtual attachment' to the trAce Online Writing Community, as a 'Wired Poet'.

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