A Pig in a Poke – Blog 102 – Ms Paige Turner I know I should perhaps be writing about turkeys buts pigs have come to mind. Whenever we trip aboard (and we have just returned from six weeks in Cape Town) I always award a ‘pig in the poke’ prize. What did I buy […]
A Pig in a Poke
15/12/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
A Wasp in Winter
05/12/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
A Wasp in Winter … Blog 101 – spot the deliberate error and Ms Paige Turner will email you a Christmas Present … I have just left sunny Cape Town where the winds blow in different directions and blow the insects away south east to north west. I am barely one night’s sleep away from […]
BLOG 100 – On Fire in Cape Town
21/11/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 100 – BLOG 100 – On Fire in Cape Town. Is late. Blog 100 is late. I’m half in holiday humour, six thousand miles from home but consider this also to be home. Our town Fish Hoek was on fire this last week. At dawn the guinea fowl are moving alarm clocks but on […]
In Rehearsal …
06/11/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
For ‘A President in Waiting’. Tech and DR tomorrow at the Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Foundation, Cape Town. Perfs – Friday 14th November at 3.00pm and 5.00pm. Directed by Amy Leigh Vermaak from the ALAS academy – with Khuls Nkatshu as Khululwa.
Skinning Your Cat …
18/10/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 98 – Skinning Your Cat … by Ms Paige Turner Gary used to come and decorate our house. He also came to my writing classes and played piano for many of our shows. I asked him if he would give my eight year old piano lessons. He paused with paintbrush in hand. Then he […]
10 Ways to Kick Start Your Writing Day
04/10/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 97 – 10 Ways to Kick Start Your Writing Day …by Ms Paige Turner This is the first of a four part series of features I have written for New London Writers. You may be working on an autobiography, a novel, a script or collection of poetry and short stories. So these forty ‘kick […]
A Cremation, A Christening and A Wedding …
20/09/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 96 – A Cremation, A Christening and A Wedding … MS Paige Turner will be giving a free 1000 word assessment for the first person emailing with the correct answers. Read on … A cremation, a christening and a wedding. All in one week. My white car was cremated. It would have been twenty […]
A President in Waiting …
04/09/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 95 – A New Play – A President in Waiting … by Jan Moran Neil – awaits an audience … The inspiration for my fifth play: A President in Waiting … came from watching Yael Farber and Thembi Mtshali’s A Woman in Waiting at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town last crisp September. The latter […]
Food for Thought and Three Apricots …
26/08/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 94 – Food for Thought and Three Apricots … Miss Trial took me away to a health resort for a Mother and Daughter Bonding Weekend as a big birthday present. The resort mixed up our dates so could only offer us their suite. I have never in my life had so much joy telling […]
Me, Jonathan Miller and the Victoria Line …
11/08/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 93 – Me, Jonathan Miller and the Victoria Line by Ms Paige Turner. Be the first to spot the synaesthesia and you will win an assessment of one of your poems – value: £10. It’s a giveaway in the title: who I met on the Tube last week. He was sitting in the corner, […]