Three days to go in the book festival and the words are expanding . They have been borrowed for worshops and offered to anyone lost for words . Writer Jackie Kay spoke yesterday of her love of punctuation which made me think that I may need to start collecting punctuation marks also. Have a look at Fiona Banners punctuation marks here
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