For ome reason I cannot access the site, as my password is not being accepted. I had to do some fiddling with my computer today , under instruction from BT, because my webmail wasn't working. I wonder if it has altered my ability to acces this site. Anyway, If I don't reply to comments or emails, that's the reason. I've signed on under a different name and email address to get a week's temporary membership whist I try to get things sorted.

Sheila

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I am really Cornelia

Sheila, have you emailed DB? He should be able to sort this out.

Dee

Dee, there doesn't seem to be the contact link at the bottom of the page anymore. I will look on other pages, as I have posted the same message to other groups I belong to.

I have tried again several times this morning but I can only get in under my new identity.

I am at a loss as to what to do, except could you really be kind and email David on my behalf?

I will try to log in later to see if he can fix it, unless I have been struck off for some inadvertent breach of the terms of service. That wouldn't happen, would it?.

Thanks

Sheila

Sheila, go to your WriteWords mailbox, click a new mail and just type David Bruce in the TO box - that'll get there.

Quite like the new name.

OK, Colin, thanks. I will try.

Yes, I like the new name, but I don't want to have to pay all over again to join.

Sheila

good point

I'm sure it's not beyond the power of the admin to change your username if that's what you wanted. depends how busy they are I guess.

No, I dodn't want my user name changed; I just couldn't log on under my old one and Lady Grey was an old webname. I think there's an Earl Grey on this site, but we have no real-life relationship. Now David has fixed things. It was such a long time since I'd had to manually log on that I'd forgotten that my normal password was missing a letter when I typed it in originally. The resaon I had to log in manually yesterday was that I'd been having problems with webmail and the BT guys (it took 4 phone sessions) had guided me through entering a whole lot of new figures into boxes, so that must have affected the log-on to Writewords.

I'm now going to log on as Cornelia, so goodbye to Lady Grey.

Sheila

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didn't

Phew! That was unsettling for a while.

I had a horrible dream last night, in which I had left my laptop in Goldsmith library and had to get back to recover it, but suddenly the library was on the twentieth floor, the lift had a big crowd waiting and the stairs were blocked.

I haven't had any of these vivid anxiety dreams since the day I gave up teaching.

Thanks to Dee for suggesting I contact David and to Colin-M for telling me how. All seems to be well.

Sheila

I had a horrible dream last night, in which I had left my laptop in Goldsmith library and had to get back to recover it, but suddenly the library was on the twentieth floor, the lift had a big crowd waiting and the stairs were blocked.

Cornelia, that was no dream, that was real life in New Cross Gate.

Emma

Sheila, exactly the same thing happened to me, glad you're back.

Julie

Emma - Goldsmiths, as you know, has only three/four storeys at most,so why had it grown so tall? Another weird touch - all the bannisters had been decorated with loops and swags of glittery materials, like the ones at Asia House where I'd attended a talk on Tuesday night. Goldsmiths doesn't have bannisters, either. Where there was a break in the stairs they had rigged up a kind of horizontal Stannah chair lift which could only take one person at a time, hence a big tailback of people who wanted to use it.

Julie, I assume youu mean the sudden lock-out from WriteWords and not the panic at Goldsmiths. What a nasty experience, but I am sure you reacted in a more mature fashion.

Sheila

Welcome back in from the cold, Sheila. Sorry I didn’t see your request to contact David – I've only just got home from work. Glad to see Colin came to the rescue.

That dream of yours reminds me of a series of dreams I have when I'm feeling insecure… there must be something archetypal about it.

Dee

I used to have the same dream just before the start of a new term, but it was about not being able to get to the classroom. I am chronically bad about finding new places. The symbolism of dreams is interesting, though, and I'm sure you are right about it being archetypal.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Sheila

I have an archetypal dream rather close to your Goldsmiths' one, Sheila, involving trying to catch a train or plane, and having too much baggage, and having lost or forgotten someone or something. When things are really getting too much, it's about a boat, and the water's just beginning to rise and lap over the edges...

Emma