The Western Gate

Toing and Froing, Up 'n' Down in the Earth


Writing prompt Sept 29 (Three alternative jobs)

Daily writing prompt
List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.

The first is not so much speculative as a move that will happen. In my life I’ve acquired a horde of strange books and even stranger object d’curio. I will open a pop up shop of old curiosity! It would be fashioned much like the wonderful Hammer Film ‘From beyond the grave’. Every object, and this is true, has a story, so the shop would also serve as somewhere to discourse on the weird and wonderful, so I’d probably serve some lovely cake and the best teas from around the world too.

The second, I would like to say the leader of a sex cult religious sect. But as an anarchist I believe everyone should be the leader or nobody should be.
there would be no temple or church building as the whole of Nature is both the kingdom and the Deity to whom we adore. Also, it probably wouldn’t be a wild sex cult, we’d probably end up having picnics in the woods and forests drinking fine teas from around the world and eating delicious home made cake… and getting fat.

Thirdly, allow myself to indulge. I would be a food critic. Sampling the finest menus from across the country and let’s add, might as well, the world. The idea that people serve you with all the smarmy fake politeness has to offer fills me with dread, anyway I’m sure I could put up with that to sample exquisite sounding pretentious foods and of course, the finest teas from around the world, and scrummy cake.



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The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.

Contents:-
1/ Book Reviews.

They’re not reviews as such- to recommend or asway, I neither seek to promote nor condemn, more my personal reflections on the books I read. In that respect it’s a subjective thing. I write the reviews as it instils in the mind, like writing down your dreams on waking, the right to remember.

2/ Short Stories and Tales

Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.

3/ Full Books
Books that were once published elsewhere, I have full copyright on these, and of course given here freely.

4/ Magazines and Articles

Small snippets and articles that may or may not have appeared elsewhere, and information not included in Journal of shadows.

5/ Poetry

A small selection of poetry. Like song, I create as a means to an artistic diary.

6/ WordPress Challenges

Wordpress (where this website is hosted) offer up a daily prompt for people to answer, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.



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