Madeleine Lily Dannhauser was born on Friday 25th November (Thanksgiving) at 10.31pm and for her we are truly grateful. Our brand new granddaughter weighed in at 7 lbs 4 ozs and will be known as ‘Maddie’. Her father, (Master Mind) our son-in-law wants to know what ‘Maddie’ will be called in Ms Paige Turner’s Blog. […]
Blog 152 – Ms Paige Turner introduces …
04/12/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
En Attendant …
20/11/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
En Attendant – by Ms Paige Turner It’s an apt phrase: ‘en attendant’ meaning ‘waiting’ … I spent 1982 and 83 as an attendant to Queen Hippolyta at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. And as an invisible First Fairy attending to Titania, the queen. I spent those summer seasons waiting […]
Creative Ink for Writers’ Spring Term 2017
03/11/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Creative Ink for Writers Spring Term 2017 Enrolments are now being taken for Creative Ink for Writers’ spring term 2017 which begins on Tuesday 10th January for 5 weeks at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield from 10. 00 am until midday. The cost is £170 to include up to 3000 word assessment and coffee and biscuits. […]
Pantglas by Jan Moran Neil
20/10/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Pantglas We silently inspect the flowers’ dewdrop tears – silk roses – rows of voiceless roses – which will never perish never blush. Satcheled shoulders quickly turned away on that day – died October 21st 1966. We inspect inscriptions on graves which point upwards like thumb nails towards this unexpected midsummer sun. We file by […]
At St Mary’s …
10/10/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
At St Mary’s by Jan Moran Neil Mary Berry is everywhere. Wherever I go, Mary Berry is there. She’s on the billboards and in the magazines even in the news for the Church Diocese. Mary Berry’s on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ and at seventy nine she is suddenly a star. Mary Berry, Mary […]
The Chrysalis Academy …
29/09/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
The Chrysalis Academy, Tokai, Cape Town. What am I doing here on this spring September morning? Sixty five pairs of female Xhosa and Cape Coloured eyes look at my husband and me and wonder ‘what is this old white couple doing here’. I am asked by Earl Mentor, their workshop leader, to speak for a […]
Dear Writer …
08/09/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Dear Writer by Ms Paige Turner – Blog 146 I recently received an email from a writer who said they had been offered a publishing contract for their children’s book but on receiving the contract realised they had to pay for the privilege. What, she asked, should she do? Here was my reply: Dear Writer, […]
Ms Paige Turner, MSt Cantab, BEd.Hons, CSSD, Cert Ed
28/08/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Ms Paige Turner Mst Cantab, BEdHons, CSSD, Cert Ed I’ve counted 26 letters after my name. That’s if I’ve counted correctly because letters are my thing and not numbers. I have a whole alphabet after my name; but I can’t drive on motorways, bake a cake or climb mountains. I just like looking at the […]
Holes in My Laptop …
14/08/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 144 – Holes in the Laptop by Ms Paige Turner. I was up until 2.30 am this morning reading Stephen King’s novel ‘Misery’: an author is incarcerated by a serial killer, former nurse Annie Wilkes. She forces (this verb is a gross understatement) him to bring his central character named Misery back to life. […]
Changing Places …
05/08/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Changing Places by Ms Paige Turner I’ve just returned from my fourth Cruise and Maritime lecturing cruise around the northern part of the globe. It was my third trip on board Magellan. Usually they give me Shackleton which is a nice big room to lecture in. But on this last trip to the Norwegian Fjords […]