Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 04 February 2026 for another session of delivering their thoughts and being inspired by the other members of the group.
We started with an imagined event when, on India being granted independence, the leaders had decided not to partition the country on religious lines. We heard how the country had developed as a single entity without the divisions and the violence that followed the division. From India we travelled further East in our imagination to a hotel room in Bangkok, where the safe in the hotel room held a bundle of papers written by hand in English. The bundle had been taken back to England and on being presented to the British Library, the papers turned out to be the missing pages of the novel “Sanditon” by Jane Austen!
Still in holiday mode, we travelled to a self catering holiday facility in Devon which was providing accommodation to visitors and their dogs. Needless to say, the dogs turned out to be much tidier and more well-behaved than the holiday-makers! That was followed by a kidnapping and false imprisonment in South Harrow that is turning out not to be as straightforward as we first thought.
We then had a poem contemplating the meaning of time, the context of history and its significance for our lives today. That was followed by the story of a smart elderly lady coping with life in her less than glamorous surroundings. In total contrast we then heard the story of a young man who was determined that he should inherit all his mother’s wealth alone, despite his siblings and despite the good health of his mother.
Towards the end of the session we had a poem composed of clichés, about clichés! We finished with a sad tale about a middle-aged woman and a young man from Corfu having to deal with the wish for children after the time for children had passed for the woman. The tale had two endings – both of them not very happy.
The group’s next meeting will be on Wednesday 18 February 2026 at 10:00am when the Creative Writers will have a go at one of the following:
An unfulfilled life;
Something unusual on a holiday;
“I shouldn’t have done that”;
A strange friendship