‘Red Lipstick’ at St James’s Retirement Home, Kalk Bay Cape Town with thanks by Ms Paige Turner … St James’s is like a stationary cruise liner docked in the ever-changing Indian ocean. The elegantly pink dining room is reminiscent of the age old First Class Queens of the Seas. Tea is served in porcelain cups […]
Red Lipstick at the St James’s Retirement Home, Cape Town with thanks …
06/11/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
Small and Trusted
15/10/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Small and Trusted’ by Ms Paige Turner My ‘Red Lipstick’ audience last Friday at High Wycombe Library almost beat my Guinness Book of Records hit in 1979. That was with my Ruddles Theatre Company (sponsored by the lovely Rutland brewery) performance of Barry Keefe’s ‘Gotcha’ which had an audience in Grantham of two. And they […]
Blog 200/A Well Good Working Week
06/10/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 200 – A Well Good Working Week When I let go of my regular Creative Ink for Writers’ classes I didn’t expect to be quite so busy with … well … work. Like London buses, editing work comes in showers. I had a downpour this week but rain is in my genes: I come […]
The Cliveden Experience …
21/09/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘The Cliveden Experience’ by Ms Paige Turner Since 2000 I’ve been running my regular Creative Ink for Writers’ classes at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield. In May, I retired (only) from my regular classes and past and present writers came to a Drinks Potty at the centre. The writers presented me with vouchers for Cliveden and […]
The Africa Book Club and Bundles of Joy
10/09/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
The Africa Book Club and Bundles of Joy by Ms Paige Turner It’s a joy when you don’t watch the kettle and it whistles to you, isn’t it? I seem to fare so much better in these writing comps when I’ve clean forgotten that I’ve entered and discover my name is on a list. I’m […]
Creative Midwifery
22/08/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Creative Midwifery’ by Ms Paige Turner The inimitable Diarmaid Fitzpatrick came up with this term when we were talking during tracks last Friday 17th August on Marlow 97.5 FM Radio/Mid-Morning Matters at 10.30 am and you can get it on Listen Again. Apparently I might be one: a creative midwife that is. It’s someone who […]
In Praise of Cousins …
13/08/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
In Praise of Cousins by Ms Paige Turner I have 22 of them. I count them in my sleep when I can’t do the latter. In fact the 22nd is a second cousin (and Lord I have an army of them) but she goes on the list as she’s only ten years younger than me […]
‘The Third Person Walking Beside You …’
30/07/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
The Third Person Talking Beside You … by Ms Paige Turner Last week I had a ‘Will you still need me, will you still feed me?’ birthday. Coincidentally, yesterday I read that Paul McCartney wrote the song in the far and distant land of his sixteenth year and that now he is in his seventy […]
‘Winning and Not Winning.’
12/07/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Winning and Not Winning’ – by Ms Paige Turner – Blog 194 It’s been all about winning and not winning this week, hasn’t it? On Monday I went to Watford: home of Elton John’s football club. I once played the part of a fanatical female football fan in Peter Terson’s ‘Zigger-Zagger’: ‘wind over the pitch, […]
If the Hat Fits …
05/07/2018 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘If the Hat Fits’ by Ms Paige Turner Last night I ran one of my Amersham Evening Creative Ink Workshops entitled ‘The Protagonist’. Catherine Klyhn has been running these quarterly evening workshops for a number of years. And numbers have now increased so she hires the aptly named ‘Seasons’ Café in Old Amersham. For £18 […]