Hayley Webster

Hi there, not a new writer. An enthusiastic one.

This week's entry is Snow-White and Rose-Red from Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales (1969, 1970s reprint).

Lots of ruminations about roses, authentic gestures, and an unexpected and specific thank you to my late mother.

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Ok so it's tomorrow. I had to read some Padadise Lost before I finished it.

Today! Day late because of course I had to go and reread some Grimm's and got carried away.

I saw a snail on a windowsill this morning.

Object 2: Pink ear defenders This week I ask what parts of you do you filter because you want to, and what parts do you filter to fit an idea of who you were told you should be? I write the Touch Points cabinet one object a time.

Last week I wrote this about the transformative power of ear defenders for adult me, and how if I'd had them as a child they'd have spared me real pain.

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Funny only last week I wrote about the transformative power of ear defenders and how child me would have been saved real pain if I'd had them.

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Object 3: Wooden rocking chair This week I ask what parts of you do you put off until the future, and how can objects you don't own yet play a part in that imagining? And why I love the sensation of rocking.

This week on Touch Points I add an imagined future rocking chair to the cabinet, asking how your good sensory memories impact what objects you bring to your future.
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Object 3: Wooden rocking chair This week I ask what parts of you do you put off until the future, and how can objects you don't own yet play a part in that imagining? And why I love the sensation of rocking.

I also wonder, now, how the interiors of Brambly Hedge and Beatrix Potter that I obsessed over as a child, didn't spring to mind while writing this. That's the thing about Touch Points. I never know where the objects will take me (or forget to).
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Object 3: Wooden rocking chair This week I ask what parts of you do you put off until the future, and how can objects you don't own yet play a part in that imagining? And why I love the sensation of rocking.

This week on Touch Points I add an imagined future rocking chair to the cabinet, asking how your good sensory memories impact what objects you bring to your future.
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Object 3: Wooden rocking chair This week I ask what parts of you do you put off until the future, and how can objects you don't own yet play a part in that imagining? And why I love the sensation of rocking.

In this week’s Touch Points I ask what does an imagined object mean in the story of your life, how do our memories form an imagined future, and why on earth do I not own a rocking chair?

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Thank you for reading!

If you listen to books on Spotify and want a Christmas listen why not give One Christmas Night a go.

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Ah, that's terrific!

Thank you for sharing!

THANK YOU!

Thank you for reading Susie. And thank you for sharing too xx

Object 2: Pink ear defenders This week I ask what parts of you do you filter because you want to, and what parts do you filter to fit an idea of who you were told you should be? I write the Touch Points cabinet one object a time.

This week in Touch Points I ask what parts of you do you filter out because you were taught to, and what parts do you want to keep or reclaim?

I write the Touch Points cabinet one object at a time, where the senses, memory and material things meet.

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Object 1 is in the Touch Points cabinet.

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A personal cabinet of curiosities, written one object at a time. Introducing Touch Points, a weekly reflection on objects real and imagined from the past, present and future. Welcome to this museum of a material life connecting memory, history and the senses.

What if every object were a portal — a small, solid piece of time?

Each week, I open one from past, present and future, or from a book.

Together they form a quiet museum of feeling, a tactile and sensory history, and ask why do some ‘things’ endure?

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