‘Happy New Decade …’ by Ms Paige Turner At this time of year, there are no better words than the ones our three year old granddaughter was heard to say on Christmas morning, midway opening a tumultuous pile of presents, ‘I need to go and lie down …’ If you feel this way, then go […]
Happy Writing …2020
29/12/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
Happy Boris Christmas, then …
17/12/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
Happy Boris Christmas, then … by Ms Paige Turner Just wanting to thank Catherine and her ravishing refreshments for the last of the Creative Ink evening workshops in Amersham. That litless road at night was getting too much for me. And I thank Catherine for hosting these workshops for the last seven years. I think […]
‘The Significance of the Original …’
28/11/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘The Significance of The Original …’ by Ms Paige Turner Here follows an excerpt from my Slice of Memoir Story ‘The Great and the Good’ which I wrote in 1997 and was published in my collection ‘Serving Bluebird Pie’. ‘The day after my father’s mother died, I took the train up to Victoria with him. […]
31 Years Service with Adult Learning …
11/11/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘31 Years Service with Adult Learning …’ by Ms Paige Turner It’s been a wonderful six weeks: we had an attempted break in at our lovely home in Cape Town. When the smashed patio window was replaced a cat took up residence being sealed in for days on end setting off the alarm. The upholstery […]
Friends on Good Writing …
23/10/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Friends on Good Writing…’ by Ms Paige Turner I’ve been Home Tutoring for the national Writing Magazine for thirteen years. I’ve proof read and given feedback on Scriptwriting, Poetry, Novels, Features and Memoir and made some long distance friends: correspondents whom, as in Helen Hanff’s ’84 Charing Cross Road’, I will probably never meet in […]
The End of a Lollipop …
09/10/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘The End of a Lollipop …’ by Ms Paige Turner Or as Edna O’Brien once wrote: ‘We die by degrees but there is one part of us that decidedly knows when it’s all just over.’ I want to thank Catherine Klyhn (I have referred to her here as Ms Evening Workshops) whose organization of Creative […]
Blog 225 – Driving Ms Moran Neil by Ms Paige Turner
04/10/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Blog 225’ – ‘Driving Ms Moran Neil’ by Ms Paige Turner I had to drive Mr Justin Case’s car to my lovely Quakers’ Poetry meeting this week. My car was being serviced for the first time in four years as I have only driven 7000 miles since 2015. It seems a long drive to me. […]
Blessed with Belfast Cousins …
16/09/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Blessed with Belfast Cousins’ by Ms Paige Turner We landed at the George Best Belfast City airport last week and stayed at the Titanic Hotel. (The latter interestingly enough was the setting place of the Sunday Times Short Story comp this week with Danielle McLaughlin’s ‘A Partial List of the Saved’ bagging her £30,000.) My […]
Reminded of My Working Tools
04/09/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
Reminded of My Working Tools by Ms Paige Turner Having visited the British Library’s Exhibition ‘Making Your Mark’ exhibition from Stone Age scratchings to Facebook, I was reminded of my own journey: wax crayons, powder paint, inkwells (yes, inkwells, dear Reader), my first gold-nibbed fountain pen with cartridge, the first of many green fibre felt-tipped […]
‘A Lady of the Dance ..’
16/08/2019 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘A Lady of the Dance …’ by Ms Paige Turner I was honoured to read this tribute to Pat Dancer, Creative Inker, who died at the age of 94 on my birthday Sunday 21st July this year. Her funeral at Holy Trinity, Penn, was attended by over 200 guests finishing with The Last Post in […]