Archive for April, 2015

Frenetic



No, I haven’t written any more of my novel. Haven’t had much sleep, either. Storytelling in Cromford on Wednesday. Creative writing class, play-writing class and creative fusion meeting on Thursday (more or less a sixteen-hour day). Taking the old folk…

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Spring in the air, spring in the step



Last Saturday’s trip to the Droylsden Library for an Open Mic session proved fruitful. There were some good contributions from the usual residents, but the two little Peak District stories I told (it was my first visit there) led to…

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“The Return” – film made by actors with learning difficulties



A few blogs ago I wrote about this project, which my friends Nicola and Ken are developing to raise funds for Life You Choose, an organisation to support people with moderate learning difficulties. I mentioned I’d played the part of…

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Recovery…



This isn’t so much a blog as a proto-blog, a promise of blogs to come rather than a blog-in-itself. My recent protracted silence has had two causes: a somewhat debilitating recurrent infection, and the death of a neighbour and friend….

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