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[lysine]

The cemetery opposite the top of our street is amazing. I have been spending a significant portion of my days there since coming back from the US and not working. It's huge, and the bit nearest our house is quite wild. Therefore full of little patches of brambles. So I am roaming around from patch to patch, collecting berries. They're really

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[amymay]

goth

[amymay]

I hung out a bit in the graveyard near the farm when I was there (it's a lovely spot by the beach) - I heard writers say that gravestones are a good way to find characters' names. But there were only about three surnames in the graveyard and all the men were called George or John and all the women Elizabeth or Margaret.

[lysine]

i did a lot of drawing in the graveyard of the kirk in my village for my higher art. i remember my favourite graves there too. one was 'Cunnnigham'. how about that for a character name?

[amymay]

With three Ns?

[lysine]

yep. i found something kind of sad and kind of funny about someone being posthumously remembered slightly wrong. i wonder if they got a discount. my other favourite at Prestonkirk was Norman, who was 'killed by a lion while on active service in Rhodesia'.

[lysine]

I am, so it is.

My sister's on her way to Dublin soon, I'm going to tell her to go to Cork too if she can. I liked Cork.