November 2021, Day 1

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This is the kick-off post, deal fellow writers. Tell us about your plans for this session. (Mine can be found in a separate post, where you can also sign up for a gift story if you want to.

May the magic be with us all!

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[ylla.livejournal.com]

Well, I managed it for today — 72 words on Trafalgar Day and 54 on a thing I watched about Alexander Pope, and 111 on the book I've been reading. So if I can just keep up even half of that...

I was back on Calton Hill on the morning of Trafalgar Day - too early for the flags on the Nelson Monument, if they ever were out, but a glorious morning by it and the National Monument.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

A great start!

Is Trafalgar Day still commonly recognized?

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Locally, I would say - Edinburgh council generally decorate their Nelson monument, while North Tyneside council hold a gathering at the Collingwood memorial at Tynemouth, and Morpeth's town council one at his house there. There's a service at St Paul's in London, as well (where Nelson and Collingwood are both buried), but generally I know about the northern ones - no doubt there are more little local ones in the south.

(And in the navy - I was in Gibraltar on Trafalgar Day once, and there was a fairly big formal service in the old graveyard there.)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good progress!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)