‘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 […]
Making Observations …
08/02/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
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 […]
‘Boiling Points’ …
31/10/2022 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Boiling Points’ by Ms Paige Turner Mister Justin Case and I recently went to see the National Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’. I have played the part of Mary Warren (the Proctors’ hapless maidservant) at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, wrote on the play as my teaching diploma thesis at the Royal Central School […]
‘All these Memoirs …’
07/10/2022 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘All these Memoirs …’ by Ms Paige Turner. We are rained down with memoirs. Plentiful, pouring forth and post-pandemic. I’ve worked it out. March 2020. Lockdown. Celebrities can’t perform. Write. For 9 months to a year. March 21. Send to publishers. Who WFH. Autumn 22 – Memoir launch/TV appearances/ In time for Christmas. I am […]