We recently went to the wedding of our friends, Kat and Dave. It was a wonderful day, the sun shone, everyone was smiling and the happy pair had a joyful time – as did the guests. Since Jamie and I didn’t know anyone at the wedding, other than Kat and Dave, it was lovely that they’d thought about seating guests with similar interests together and to have an icebreaking game at the reception. This consisted of place name cards with a difference. On the back of each card was written an interesting point about another guest and the idea was that you had to talk to others to find out who it referred to. My card said ‘X used to be a private eye’ and Jamie’s said ‘X is a retired vicar’. It was interesting to discover who those people were and to find out what had been written about us! Jamie’s interesting point referred to the time on a tiny Indonesian island when our clothes had gone to the laundry and been mislaid, so we only had the clothes we stood up in. And mine said ‘X is a published author’. There was a surprising range of interesting points and it was fascinating to talk the various people about them. We discovered who the private eye was and the retired vicar, in fact, you can just see her back, in the photo to the left (with the red, pink and white dress).

And that made me think. Suppose you had to write an interesting point that represented you to a crowd of strangers? What would you put?

Daffodil would certainly have a very interesting point! Unfortunately, she would have been unable to divulge her secret! To find out why, click here to go to the Muse It Up Publishing website to buy ‘Daffodil and the Thin Place’. #MuseItUp