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The Hat Fluffer …

02/03/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil

The Hat Fluffer … This is the direct link to my website for the Marlow FM 97.5 Radio recording of my short story published by Bridge House Publishing in their anthology ‘Evergreen’. It’s the tragic story of Victorian hat fluffer Matilda Scheurer who met her very green fate. http://www.janmoranneil.co.uk/media/flufferedit.mp3

My Marlow Radio Monologue …

17/02/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil

You can hear me reading my monologue ‘Scheurer’s Green’ – which Bridge House Publishing published in their anthology ‘Evergreen’ on Marlow FM 97.5 this coming Monday 20th February at approximately 11.15 am. It’s the tragic story of Matilda Scheurer, a hat fluffer in Victorian London. In my best received pronunciation, of course. Here is the […]

Making Observations …

08/02/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Making Observations …’ by Ms Paige Turner As we all well know, a writer and performer’s job is to make observations of human nature and then reproduce and communicate them to a reading and viewing audience. So when I saw a couple of dear school friends I had known since I was ten years old […]

Blog from Blog …

31/01/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil

Blog from Blog … by Ms Paige Turner Gill James, editor of ‘Evergreen’ – an anthology of short stories just out, has published my short story ‘Scheurer’s Green’. She has asked writers some questions for her blog. Here’s me and here is the link: http://www.gilljameswriter.com/    

Memory, Imagination and Going Spare …

16/01/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil

Memory, Imagination and Going Spare … by Ms Paige Turner I’m about to do an online ‘Memory and Imagination’ course – as I need to sometimes ‘student’ and it’s with my Cambridge supervisors so that’s good. I’m wondering if ‘the most famous person on the planet’ will come up as Prince Harry does merge Memory […]

Happy New 2023 …

01/01/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil

Happy 2023 to my three blog readers. ‘There is no friend as loyal as a book’. Ernest Hemingway.

Merry Christmas … by Ms Paige Turner

24/12/2022 // by Jan Moran Neil

Abou Ben Adhem By Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold:— Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And […]

‘Evergreen …’ at this time of year

06/12/2022 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Evergreen’ at this time of year by Ms Paige Turner My short story ‘Scheurer’s Green’ is published in Bridge House Publishing’s anthology ‘Evergreen’. An apt time of year to launch this lovely collection of stories. My short story is about the death of one Matilda Scheurer, aged nineteen, killed by the ills in our society. […]

George Nabney Bell – 26/4/52 – 20/11/22

22/11/2022 // by Jan Moran Neil

George Nabney Bell – 26/4/52 – 20/11/22 Rest, rest now, sweet coz. I shall not look upon your lovely like again. My poem ‘Bird Brains’ has just been published in a beautiful collection of poetry entitled ‘Voices for the Silent’ in aid of the League Against Cruel Sports and edited by Ronnie Goodyer at Indigo […]

‘Silver Gulls …’

07/11/2022 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Silver Gulls …’ by Ms Paige Turner In 1977 (gosh!) I directed Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ with a bunch of warm and widely cosmopolitan Canadian students at the Dome Theatre in Montreal. It’s my favourite of Chekhov’s seven full-length plays. As a director’s gift the cast gave me a silver seagull locket which I have always […]