Archive for July, 2016

If you enjoy weird stories…



No, this blog isn’t about politics, though the subject heading perhaps made you suppose so. It’s about my first-ever published fiction book, which was compiled and launched thanks to the encouragement I received from Barbara and Christopher Roden of Ash…

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Next public performances…



I’ll be going to the Buxton Storytelling session at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Sunday 10th) and I’ll be telling more Peak District folktales at Bakewell Bookshop on Monday 18th (7.30 p.m.), Partington Theatre Glossop on Friday 22nd (7.30 p.m.), and probably…

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What a great week!



Notwithstanding all the post-EU-Referendum angst that hangs cumulonimbus-like over our heads, I’ve had a week that can only be deemed personally successful. My one-act play was duly staged last night and the two actresses excelled themselves. The audience was duly…

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Labyrinths and mazes



The words ‘labyrinth’ and ‘maze’ have often been treated as near-synonyms, but they denote two different classes of object. A labyrinth is a convoluted, twisted path from a starting point to a finishing point. It may be very long but…

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