‘Back on the Beat …’ by Ms Paige Turner. This is a bit late as I have been wining and dining myself in good old, beautiful Cape Town and apart from a singular, one-to-one consultation, for the first time, I didn’t do a scrap pf work but I was broadcasting my poetry, during my trip, […]
‘Back on the Beat …’
07/02/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Peter Pan’ at the London Palladium Panto’ Review by Ms Paige Turner …
23/12/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Peter Pan’ at the London Palladium Panto’ Review … My parents always took my sister and me to the London Palladium panto’. Sometimes we sat in the box, even though our origins were humble. So it was a ‘big thing’ and probably at that time one of the few productions rather than the plethora of […]
‘An introduction to Creative Writing at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre …’ by Jan Moran Neil
26/11/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
An Introduction to Creative Writing at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre this autumn … by Jan Moran Neil It’s been a strange and interesting return to teaching Creative Writing at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre this autumn. After twelve years of running these courses I left in 2000 to set up my own Creative Ink […]
Writing Dates for Your Diary …
07/11/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Writing Dates for your Diary … with Jan Moran Neil Poetry with a Pen and a Passion – Highcrest Adult Learning Centre – Saturday 2nd March, 2024 Life Writing – A Gift for Your Grandchildren or for Posterity – Saturday 8th June, 2024 – Beaconsfield Writing Which Raises a Smile – Humour – Saturday 6th […]
Creative Writing Courses with Jan Moran Neil …
26/10/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Creative Writing Course with Jan Moran Neil …’ There are two places left on my 5-week Creative Writing course at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre beginning next Wednesday 1st November. To enrol go to studentenquiries@buckinghamshire.gov.uk Most writers have re-enrolled from the first few weeks. Lovely group. Email me if you want to find out more. […]
‘Alma Maters’
03/10/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Alma Maters …’ by Ms Paige Turner In one weekend I was invited to three of my four alma maters from which I graduated and hath flourished. The first was the Ark Oval Primary School – or as I knew it – Oval Road Primary – last Friday for their 150th Anniversary. The second was […]
‘To Market, to market …’ or ‘The Life of a Mayfly …’
15/09/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘To Market, To Market …’ by Ms Paige Turner So having spent months upgrading my laptop, buying recording equipment, recording my poetry collection ‘Red Lipstick & Revelations’, opening accounts with Amazon Audible, filling in all my details, finding the right pixels for my cover, uploading all my files, waiting for approval, I then realise that […]
‘The Long Road to Amazon Audible …’ or ‘Reading the Instructions …’
25/08/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘The Long Road to Amazon Audible …’ or ‘Reading the Instruction Booklet’ by Ms Paige Turner Seven months. It took seven months. February 2023. I listen into some samples of something called ‘Audible’ on Amazon and think – I can do that. I could even do that better. So, I found, through Adrian Spalding – […]
‘Dreary ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ …’
08/08/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Dreary ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ … by Ms Paige Turner Mister Justin Case and I booked a cruise during lockdown as we spent much time looking at travel brochures. We booked to go to Odessa in the Ukraine and Romania. Cyprus was also on the list – and I hadn’t been there – or the Ukraine. Well, […]
Creative Writing Sessions with moi – Autumn 2023 and Coming Full Circle …
28/07/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Creative Writing Adult Learning Sessions with moi – Autumn 2023 and Coming Full Circle … Wednesdays 1-3 pm at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre, Wattleton Road. Wednesday 20th, 27th September and Wednesday 4th, 11th, 18th October. Can you believe it? This is where I began in 1989, thirty-four years ago. On Wednesdays 1-3 pm. Same […]