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Linda Acaster
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About Me — Linda Acaster

Fiction writer, history lover, map junkie — Hi! I’m Linda Acaster and thanks for stopping by my Profile. We are all busy so I’ll keep this short. I’m a Brit from the English county of Yorkshire, situated halfway up the country. My close family currently lives a short walk from the chilly North Sea, which has proven…

About Me

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About Me — Linda Acaster
About Me — Linda Acaster
About Me

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Self-Reliance Gone Mad — Making Butter

Is it cheaper than store-bought? — I guess it began during the train of British Covid lockdowns. While we put life on pause, waiting to see how bad the forecast pandemic shortages would become, I looked to develop more self-reliance. Like many others, I started baking bread. It’s the family joke that my loaves can be…

Foodies

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Self-Reliance Gone Mad — Making Butter
Self-Reliance Gone Mad — Making Butter
Foodies

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Published in Six Word Photo Story Challenge

·Mar 12

Tend your Gut Microbiome and your Gut Microbiome will tend you. Hopefully.

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — When life offers cabbage, make Sauerkraut I have an autoimmune disorder, sub-clinical Hashimoto’s Hypothyroidism. For the uninitiated, the thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland at the front of the neck and is the main controller of both metabolism and the immune system. It needs to work well. Mine doesn’t. I suspect I haven’t been feeding it properly…

Healthy Foods

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Tend your Gut Microbiome and your Gut Microbiome will tend you. Hopefully.
Tend your Gut Microbiome and your Gut Microbiome will tend you. Hopefully.
Healthy Foods

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Published in Six Word Photo Story Challenge

·Feb 19

Racing to be Spring’s First Flower

February Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Love & Hearts” — Sanctity of Snowdrops stir the soul. There is nothing better to swell the heart than to see snowdrops coming into flower in the dreary first days of a British February. Spring is on its way! It was, though, a close-run thing this year. A tiny lone aconite, tucked into a hidden corner, managed to unfurl its…

Spring

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Racing to be Spring’s First Flower
Racing to be Spring’s First Flower
Spring

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Jan 23

A Game of Books and Thrones

There’s nothing like easing the mind while lighting the imagination — Early January is my time for winding down after the festivities, of recuperating walks along the beach, of reading for pleasure rather than work, and viewing any likely movies that catch my eye, all aimed at allowing my blood pressure to ease and my stamina rebuild for the coming year…

Reading

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A Game of Books and Thrones
A Game of Books and Thrones
Reading

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Published in Six Word Photo Story Challenge

·Jan 18

A Taste of Something Different

January Six Word Story Challenge: “Hometown Pride” — Hull — the birthplace of Chip Spice! Okay, stop laughing. First, let’s settle what a British “chip” is. It’s not a deep-fried wafer-thin potato “crisp”, nor does it have any resemblance to a stringy “French fry”. A traditional British “chip” is a potato peeled and cut into batons about as long and as fat an index finger…

Humour

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A Taste of Something Different
A Taste of Something Different
Humour

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Jan 14

Dare You — Walk Half A Mile In An Older Person’s Shoes?

A cheery smile can change your day — and theirs. — Yesterday morning, across a busy street, I saw a lady I recognised. I’ve no idea of her name, or where she lives; somewhere in my neighbourhood because our paths cross occasionally. In the past we’ve exchanged smiles, sometimes a Good morning, sometimes a quick chat about the weather. I’ve never…

Mental Health Awareness

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Dare You — Walk Half A Mile In An Older Person’s Shoes?
Dare You — Walk Half A Mile In An Older Person’s Shoes?
Mental Health Awareness

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Dec 22, 2022

Creating Waste to Save the Planet??

Is this a Sustainable Plan or a Virtue Signalling joke? — I have been wrapping the final Christmas gifts and the task has proved less than joyful. In fact, it left me seething. Most people want to do their bit in cutting back overuse of the planet’s resources. Food is not thrown away in this house, it is eaten; clothes are…

Recycling

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Creating Waste to Save the Planet??
Creating Waste to Save the Planet??
Recycling

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Dec 20, 2022

Heating the Person and Not the Space Has its Drawbacks

It depends on where you live. — I had to smile when I read an interesting piece from Clive Thompson In Praise of the Hot-Water Bottle, which he’d sourced from deep in a cupboard when he fell ill. Here in the UK, hot-water bottles are in every shop imaginable — the traditional flat rubber bottle, the mini…

Wellness

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Heating the Person and Not the Space Has its Drawbacks
Heating the Person and Not the Space Has its Drawbacks
Wellness

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Published in Six Word Photo Story Challenge

·Nov 10, 2022

Eyes Left!

November Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Collecting Smiles” — Jurassic Park in an English Garden While on holiday, it is interesting to walk the area around our hotel to see how the locals live, to spy what they grow in their gardens, to follow ginnels and snickets and other pedestrian shortcuts between lanes hardly wide enough to park a car. The oldest part of this…

Humour

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Eyes Left!
Eyes Left!
Humour

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Linda Acaster

Linda Acaster

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British multi-genre fiction author who haunts historic sites. www.lindaacaster.com

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