‘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 – […]
‘The Long Road to Amazon Audible …’ or ‘Reading the Instructions …’
25/08/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘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 […]
‘Free Education for All’ – The Ragged School Museum in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets opens its doors …
14/07/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Free Education for All – The Ragged School Museum in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets opens its doors … as published in ‘The Educator’ magazine In June 2023, the Ragged School Museum opened its ancient doors on Copperfield Road, Mile End but its journey from being the largest Victorian ragged school in London which […]
The Cost of Living …
02/07/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘The Cost of Living …’ by Ms Paige Turner It isn’t often I veer from the written and spoken word as theme for my blog but my dear three blog readers, I have to share the story of the scallops with you. Mister Justin Case and I decided to treat ourselves to a sushi takeaway […]
Happy Father’s Day …
18/06/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Great and the Good by Jan Moran Neil My father died on St. Swithin’s day, 1977, and it rained for a long time after that. We were given no notice of this major event. He lived three score years, depriving us of those very important ten, when he could have seen me married, could have […]
Our Home Movies … by Ms Paige Turner
06/06/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Screenocean’s Anna Ison interviews me regarding our Home Movie Footage’. We have some fascinating home movies and travelogues from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s held within our Jan Moran Neil/Linda Ralph collection. It’s a nostalgic collection documenting post Second World War working class family life and captures golden moments from that period. Highlights include celebrations […]
Creative Ink for Actors’ 20th Anniversary Reunion or ‘Seeing it in the Trees’
21/05/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Creative Ink for Actors’ 20th Anniversary Reunion’ or ‘See it in the Trees’. At the end of term in the summer of 2002, a honey-eyed young student asked if I would write and produce a play for the departing BND students and I said, ‘Yep’. Twenty years later ‘Blackberry Promises’, ‘Good Things from Bad Rubbish’, […]
‘Dialogue with the Queen …’
07/05/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
I know I have posted this one before but there we are … ‘Dialogue with the Queen’ by Jan Moran Neil Last night I dreamt the Queen said to me, “Oh Janet, weren’t you in the crowd at Jubilee in … nineteen-seventy-seven? Wasn’t it that little town in Devon?” “Falmouth,” I replied. “Ah yes, and […]
‘Living …’
24/04/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Living …’ by Ms Paige Turner The screenplay of the film was written by Kazuo Ishiguro: one of my favourite authors. He’s author of ‘Artist of the Floating World’, ‘Never Let Me Go’ and ‘Remains of the Day’. Ishiguro’s themes often centre upon our achievements in life: what we have given ourselves to, sometimes without […]