In the light of Obama’s Visit to the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation in Masiphumelele, Cape Town on Sunday 30th June …it’s pure coincidence that I was to publish my feature this bi-month on – The Ulutsha Horizon Theatre Company blossoming in Masiphumelele, Fish Hoek, Cape Town. I had the pleasure of parachuting in to the […]
Obama Visits the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation in Masi, Cape Town.
01/07/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Here comes Summer?
16/06/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 67 – Here comes Summer? Ms Paige Turner makes an intentional ‘slip up’ on every blog. Spot this one and she will send you a free hand out sheet of your choice. One could be forgiven for thinking I’m a right tart when it comes to the local press but yes, I’m in there […]
02/06/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 66 – ‘Dialogue with the Queen’. In commemoration of the Queen’s coronation 60 years ago almost to this minute, here is a bit of fun from my collection ‘Serving Bluebird Pie’ available on Kindle for a couple of quid. Dialogue with the Queen Last night I dreamt the Queen said to me, “Oh Janet, […]
Working Away at Workshops …
19/05/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 65 – Working away at Workshops – Ms Paige Turner tells an intentional fib on each blog. Spot this one and get a free handout sheet on any writing related topic of your choice. I’ve been out at Missenden Abbey and up to the lovely Amersham Ladies and even in the Creative Ink classes […]
Getting to Grips …
06/05/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
with my new laptop …
Great Roots …
22/04/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Great Roots. “Like the trees we come to lose our leaves and draw our strength from the Great Roots … ” Robert Bly Last blog I said I had a notebook which has – ‘writers I have known and liked’ – on the front and that I was going to ask writers to place some […]
Ways Lead on to Ways
10/04/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 63 – Ways lead on to Ways … Ms Paige Turner makes an intentional error on each blog. Spot this bi-month’s error and get a free poetry assessment.* I’m sorry this bi-month’s blog is tardy. It’s not because I was returning from five glorious weeks in Cape Town but because my laptop was comatose […]
Sheer Delight: Chocolate. Happy Easter Bunnies …
22/03/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 62 – Sheer Delight – Chocolate … Happy Easter … What do the Maya, the Aztecs, Hernán Cortes, Queen Anne of Austria, Sir Hans Sloane and William Cadbury have in common? The last one was a sweet giveaway, wasn’t it? Considered an aphrodisiac, a symbol of love and with a long tradition of being […]
Creative Ink Publishing
08/03/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 62 – Creative Ink Publishing Beth Glanville – author of The Imaginist – which she has published on Lulu.com recently emailed me as she was writing a feature on ‘Self Publishing’ and asked me to comment on my experiences with MY NOVEL – BLACKBERRY PROMISES. It’s a tricky one this, as technically, Creative Ink […]
Merely Players -My Performance at the Royal Albert Hall
23/02/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil
Merely Players My performance at the Royal Albert Hall Ms Paige Turner is publishing this – available from Serving Bluebird Pie – on Kindle – in honour of Mr Red Hat’s (Mike’s) 60th birthday. This is what we got up to when we were very young … It’s circuitous – how I got to be […]